Hijacked By AntiVirus Gold - Returns Back Upon Reboot
May 25, 2005
Earlier today, my main computer was hi-jacked by Antivirus Gold. I can uninstall it, but it returns immediately upon reboot. Try as I might, I cannot get rid of it. It's taken over my desktop and
will not allow me to change it, constant black background with a huge "Buy Me" advertisement.
It seems to behave like Spyware, but Microsoft's beta spyware detection and removal utility doesn't know about this and fails to see it. In fact, none of my housekeeping utilities, including SpyBot,
AdAware, Registry FirstAid, etc., see it or remove it. It won't leave me alone, constantly popping up with warning messages urging me to buy.
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Oct 5, 2007
Well I installed a program called snagit which i thought was totaly safe in the begining but out of nowhere
my taskmanager shut down button etc disappeared or i didnt have acces to itafter reading some on the internet i found a way to work around thisI fixed most of the things but there is still the darn antivirus that is missingfiles but when i look at the map its there
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Jan 14, 2007
This stupid "Gold Bar" that keeps popping up when I run any flash-based scripts is getting oh so annoying! I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of it but it keeps coming back. I did everything that it tells me to do to disable it but as soon as I restart IExplorer, all the settings keep resetting.
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May 27, 2005
I am playing the game The Final Cut (Ubissoft) I have tried contacting Ubisoft by phone, mail and e-mail and have not received a reply. The problem is as I am playing, the game stops amd returns to the desktop. I am almost through with the game and it has worked perfectly until now.
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Dec 6, 2007
What ever happened to the nice Windows Search function? All of a sudden I have something called Desktop Search. My Windows used to find anything on my entire HDD. Now it returns no results in a fraction of a second if what I'm looking for is not actually on the desktop. What's going on here?
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Mar 3, 2007
My situation is this, my computer cannot conect to the update of Antivir, My Internet Explorer its been acting very funny, sometimes I cannot make my favorites to appear, and the shorcut of a link of Internet of Sympatico MSN, canot be displayed, I reall.y need some help here , somtimes I get like a flash on the cornerup right of my monitor, when I turn off a page of Internet Explorer.
I cant make with double click , of the mouse appear even a notepad in my desktop !!
I been Hijacked !!?? someone is in my computer? from far?
My roomate downlad a patch for a game, today when I return from classes , she told me that teh computer start acting pretty badly, I realy dont know how long, Im gonna be able to control mu computer, I check first my computer and its was a Trojan URL blank.
So I perform teh remove Instructions for teh reg. infected, but this time its been far from my knowledge of Fix. I can post a hijack if required , righ tnow I scaning with antivir removal tool 3.0 but I dont know it, going to work .
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Mar 31, 2005
My was browsing around and got hijacked. AGHHHH. I seem to have IST.IST Toolbar amoung other things. I ran adaware, spybot and MS antispyware but it keeps coming back
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Jan 18, 2005
My laptop has been hijacked, can't connect to TSG, homepage's been taken over. I have ran AWSE6, Search & Destroy, but each time everything comes back as soon as it's fixed. Please help, this is my personal laptop and I need it.
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Nov 26, 2004
Last week, my home page was hijacked by spyware (I think), it was actually 2 pages in length, the bottom of first page was a note "Removal instructions". I have windows XP SP2.I was able to go into the registry, with the help of another forum, and delete the offending file. Now my home page is white with my general icons, (I used to have the pretty beach picture of windows XP). I can't seem to restore the picture.I have also discovered the same file in "my computer" in system 32. When I press delete the icon disappears for about 3 seconds and then returns. The files name is "Twain Tech" and in system 32 as "Twunk 16" and "Twunk 32"
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Dec 24, 2007
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I did an AVG Rootkit scan which turned up "c:windows/system32/userinit.exe" as a dodgy file. I removed it and now the machine won't login when I boot the system. With a bit more digging it seems that this file was actually the login information within the registry and as it can't find a valid user/password it just keeps asking me click the user name and login. When I click it just loops back and throws back up the window, asking me to click the user name again.How I can access the registry and reset the userinit.exe file?I've tried selecting "last good configuration" which didn't work.I also tried to download Bart PE on another machine (running Vista) to set up a boot CD, but it wasn't particularly clear how to go about it, so I tried using the XP System Recovery app on the install disks. This got me into a C: prompt.
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Are you guys having the same problem? Using IE7, when viewing a thread, if I hit the back arrow to go back to the page I was previously viewing, it doesn't move at all. It started acting weird a couple of days ago when it took sometimes two hits on the back arrow to go back. Now it doesn't go back to the previous page at all.
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i got and error in my Mcaffe that asked my to reinstall the program, I've tried but always got an error.I've tried to install "sSpybot - Search & Destroy" the installation was good but i as i wanted to run the program i got "seraching for SpybotSD.exe" box Msg. , i checked the folder and nothing, not EXE file downloaded it againg and install it againg and nothing..I've ran the windows repair stuff "sfc /scannow" and nothing really cheanged, and "ad-aware" didnt find anyhthing as well.so right now i cant install any program - always the EXE is been deleted and cant run the anti-virus program as well?
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