can someone tell me whats going on,i was on computer when this message poped up saying i had blackworm virus ,win32 swena then a madoogali it said came from windows security center had a virus scanner to run i run it ,it had a lot of different things on it but to get rid of them i had to buy it,so i got rid of it.
If my computer is infected with a virus/worm and I system restore it to an infectionless date previous to catching the infection, can I safely say I no longer have an infected computer. In other words can I use my system restore feature to clean out a virus.
View 18 Replies View RelatedDid a regular system scan with Norton Antivirus, and it turned up a file "mmwview_101.dll." It also classified it as a "download.trojan" virus. Of course, as seems to always be the case, Norton was unable to fix, delete, or qurrantine the darn thing. So...I disable system restore, and restarted in safe mode. Did another system scan, exact same result. Depending upon where I look for the information, I get conflicting reports as to how serious this thing is. Nonetheless, I want rid of it. 2 questions, then: 1: what's the best way to go about getting rid of the virus, and 2: would it be completely stupid for me to just try to go in and delete the file manually?
My system went haywire, and now im getting ad's like crazy and virus's coming up and for some odd reason i cant even look inside my recycle bin it says there is 2 items in there all the time then i go 2 open it an there shows nothing and i delete things and they just like disappear. By the way i tried the trial version of panda.
View 14 Replies View Relatedmy pc is just suddenly switching off just like that and i suspect it could be a virus.but now the problem is if i when to run an antivirus it switches off before the scan is complete. how i can remove the virus that is if it is a virus.
View 10 Replies View RelatedWe have a Dell Inspiron 6000, and it won't boot Windows XP, giving me the message system32configsystem is missing or corrupt. I've gone through a number of steps to recover, including using Windows XP startup disk to go into Recovery console, following MS knowledge base articles, running chkdsk, etc. What I've found out is that the "system" file from both windowssystem32config and from windows epair is gone.
View 10 Replies View Relatedwell i have notice my pc running a bit slow lately and i would like to know if i got any viruses.
View 14 Replies View RelatedThis site is great. I was hit by a trojan last night which made its way through my avg anti virus. it was one of those virus busters trojans. i was able to get that bug off my pc but now when i boot up I get the windowssystem.32 egsvr32.exe in the box. i'm illiterate with dos. below is my log file.....
View 14 Replies View RelatedIf someone downloads and runs a trojan and then uses system restore to back
to a system restore point prior to running the virus, is that computer still
infected?Nocturnal http://www.spywaretalk.org
As my system is running very slow, I decided to look for the source of the problem. While looking at the system information details I noticed five processes under the name "svchost.exe" with the label "not available for all the information tabs (Path, Min working set, max working set, version, size) The same problem with a process called wmiprvse.exe. Please can you tell what is that and if this is a virus, worm or malware or is only a system process?
I have other for processes "svchost.exe" with the path determined "C:windowssystem 32svchost.exe. Is there any difference? I scaned my computer several time just yesterday.
I have tried to restore my system to the first date available. xp always fails to load and I have to go back to "start windows from the last good configuration" – I started in safe mode, disconnected from the internet- scanned with NAV cleaned a bunch of junk off, scanned with Spybot S&D – cleaned some more junk off tried to restore to day one – same problem - go back to "start windows from the last good configuration"- several hours wasted and I am going crazy. This may be a virus problem
View 5 Replies View Relatedhey, my computer have been acting up lately and its EXTREMELY slow right now, ive tried everything that i could think of, running virus scans and system cleaning scans..ive deleted/removed programs that i dont need but i still have this problem...also pop-up's come up all the time even when the computer is just sitting there at least 20 pops up and i do have panicware pop_up stopper but i quess it doesnt seem to work..i also have a problem with my computer just shutting down on me and then rebooting going to the screen where you sign in at.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI keep getting this Warning message every time I try to open a folder. Attention, some dangerous viruses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows XP Files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in C: WINDOWS. Download protection software now! Click OK to download the antispyware. (Recommended). I click No and it directs me to a site that tries to get me to download the software. If I let the page run, the computer becomes disfuctional, and I have to use task manager to close programs and get the computer to respond. I've tried using system restore, adaware SE professional, and Symantec Antivirus to get rid of whatever this may be. Nothing is working. I'm not sure what to do at this point
View 7 Replies View Relatedso i get my laptop from my brother who was borrowing it and i see in the start menu that there is a little icon that flashes from a blue and white question mark into the red circle with one line symbol. when highlighted it says Critical System Error!. i click on it and it pops up a page for me to download some antimalware or something. idk what's going on so i'm doing an ewido scan and i did a hijackthis log
View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter going through a virus attack, losing a hard drive, fighting off hackers, upgrading all my software, installing fire-walls, being threatened with being cut-off by my email provider, and a host of other problems, I have fixed my computer.... NOW it works exactly the way I want it to!
View 2 Replies View RelatedIf I acquired a trojan or virus over the past few days, can it infect restore
points from several weeks ago?
In March of this year I had the dreaded W32.Klez virus. Although I was able
to destroy it, it not only turned off my system restore, but deleted the tab
from my computer properites.Does anyone know how I can put it back on? Here's the message I get:System Restore has been turned off by group policy. To turn on, contact your domain Administrator.I would appriciate any help, so I don't have to spend money to fix it, if I can avoid it.
I have recently fallen victim to a nasty virus which tried to destroy my entire operating system. It kept sending me pop ups via IE and I guess I downloaded it off a facebook video to which it attached itself.kaboob or something. Anyway, I survived but haven't been able to restore my desktop function ability. First it said'restore my active desktop' but I couldn't. Finally I managed to restore about one eighth of my picture but can't get any further. The rest of my screen is white and that's where it stands now.
View 9 Replies View RelatedTo whom it may concern;I am running Windows XP home Edition, SP2, On a Toshiba satellite notebook, PIV 3.06gig, 1 GB of RAM.I get repeated blue screen crashes. Afterwards. The windows event viewer show a system failure "The Panda anti dialer service failed to start for the following reason: A device attached to the system is not functioning. When the report tool does give feedback it points to a bad driver or the Anti virus or fiewall software.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had a problem on booting which is caused by a virus which had corrupted some of the system files. All my efforts to get the system restore had failed. How do I get into the system to go to system restore points. All my efforts to choose all the alternatives in the screen such as safe boot, last known good configuration etc failed. It goes on a cyclic mode again and again coming to the same screen.In such a condition how to go to my system restore point to choose the earlier restore point.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI think I have System Volume Information virus on my laptop.Im using Norton Internet Security 2008.I using window XP home edition.Im trying to remove the files for both drive c and my partition drive thru system restore disable but when I restart still there.Can someone help me?
View 7 Replies View Relatedwhat do you do if you run say: kaspersky internet security pro 2009 and it doesnt find spyware or a virus...but the machine is still running slow.its got 1GB ram,dual core is this right?1 run a defrag 2 run a windows repair
View 7 Replies View RelatedI sometimes turn off all my antivirus stuff when I play online games (stupid I know but I need to free up the memory). Anyways today I forgot to turn zonealarm and avg back on, and I got a virus while surfing the net. I cleaned most of it up, but when I right click on the desktop, and go to desktop, the backgrounds box is locked or something, and I can't chang the background.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell insiron 530 with recently acquired virus or trojan that has prohibited my computer from running mcafee. I am running Windows XP. I was considering upgrding to windows 7 anyway. Will the install of a new operating system clean the hard disk of this and any other virus? I have already backed up my files onto an external hard drive and ran the Mcafee on the external drive and it is clean.
View 8 Replies View RelatedMicrosoft Windows, SpyBot, and Norton all sent a deluge of windows saying they had detected changes. SpyBot sent 7-10 warnings, one of them saying "SpyBot. Search & Destroy has detected an important registry item entry that has been changed. Catagory: System Startup global entry; Change: Value deleted; Entry: elkfqxcj; Old data: c:windowselkfqxcj.exe; [allow change][Deny change].Each of these SpyBot notices had a different entry. Since then my computer is extremely slow, freezes up when left for any time. A window pops us when opening and when changing applications titled "16 bit Windows Subsystem", saying:
C:WindowsSystem32AutoExec.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Window's applications. Choose 'close' to terminate application. [close] [ignore]
trojan virus attack to the system result in slowed down PC?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am running XP professional and have a virus called trojan horse 16.AG it is located in my systemvolumeinformationrestore file and I can't find this file or cannot remove (Fix) this virus.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf someone downloads and runs a trojan and then uses system restore to back
to a system restore point prior to running the virus, is that computer still
infected?Nocturnal http://www.spywaretalk.org
I am having problems with my computer running slow. It does not seem to matter what I do it still runs to slow. I am running Windows xp, have no viruses that have been detected but all my programs run slowly. What can I do to fix this problem???
View 1 Replies View RelatedI swear, my OS is really a virus. I have a multitude of issues here, of which I am just totally lost on.Issue #1: My folders rename themselves. They do it without me installing any new software or anything else. The folders that appear to re-name are My Computer, Network Neighborhood, My Documents. When this crazy thing hits, then if I name them back to whatever I want, they "magially" rename themselves again, and I do not have to be doing anything. Of course, many times when I reboot this happens. I even went as far as manually editing the registery and still no luck, these puppies rename themself. This is on both my desktop and laptop.Issue #2: My taskbar icons do not always show. A lot of important ones that should be there are not. I do not have the "hide inactive icons" checked, in fact, I did so just to see if those other icons would appear.
View 12 Replies View RelatedAn intermittent error occurs that freezes my PC solid - this can occur from password screen to ten minutes into the session, sometimes it doesn't happen at all...very annoying Going "My Computer" -> "Manage" -> "System Tools" -> "Event Viewer" -> "System" reveals these two errors that occur together each time a crash occurs...EVENT ID 7000 the Sophos AutoUpdate Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.