Scanning For Virus And Malware
Apr 7, 2010
I had a friend over looking stuff up on the net on my system. One of the sites he was on was infected but my antivirus blocked it. When i restarted my computer it was running at a constant 50% cpu usage.went to task manager and saw one of my svchost.exe running at 50%. I closed it out then my cpu restarted on its own. When I got back on its still running at 50%. I tried scanning for virus and malware but it showed up as nothing. I used avast and malwarebytes.
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Jul 24, 2005
i was just wondering when you do a virus scan and an adware and spyware scan, will it scan other peoples user acounts on my PC. because their files are protected from me accessing them
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Sep 13, 2009
i had a malware virus that was removed by norton, its stuck in a log on log off loop, i tried a image file it did not work, next step in hard drive removal,can some tell me how the network 2 computers so i can change the registry to usernet or whatever
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Nov 9, 2009
Niece's netbook (Asus EeePC) running Windows XP has rather suddenly slowed to a real crawl. Think 5 minutes for a right-click menu to open, for example, instead of a split second. Last night I summoned the patience to start up the already-installed AVG virus scanner, and while it took hours and hours, it found zero problems. Ran CCleaner, no change.The desktop, icons, etc. etc. look correct and nothing seems awry except for the intolerable lack of speed. I realize it could still be a virus or malware, although I'm thinking of other explanations as well
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Jul 31, 2005
Neighbor's Dell 8250 PC. XP Home. Comcast. Linksys WRT54GS. Cleaned the PC a month ago, installed Norton 2005, WiFi setup on her new Dell laptop (also running XP Home), shared the printer, everything worked GREAT until she got hit with a NASTY piece of malware. Popups like mad .... she soon discovered she could no longer print from the laptop. I Installed Microsoft Antispyware, found and cleaned some stuff. Then
rand Trend Micro's online spyware scan, found even more. Popups gone, system is stable, but we still cannot print via the laptop. Printer is shared properly and operating normally via the desktop.
Checked USENET and Microsoft.com - began suspecting Windows Firewall was compromised. It was OFF (and I know it had been ON before), all settings were dimmed out, message @ top: "For your security, some settings are controlled by Group Policy." User is a local administrator. Can't run Policy Editor in XP Home, but I found
reference to PolicySettings.xls, which has registry keys for every OS.....
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Feb 18, 2008
my sister's computer wasn't working after she said the power went out and back on while she was on it I don't believe this is true, I think it is a virus or malware problemAnyway, back to the problemThe windows start screen starts, and then a blue screen pops up for half a second, and the computer restarts, over and over again.. I can't get the computer fixed with a Windows CD because she lost hers!
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Aug 29, 2008
I've been trying to help a friend who has a computer that is horribly infested with virus and malware. My friend had no recovery partition or any type of Windows CD. After downloading and running Spybot and Avira Antivirus the computer began to run much better. Everytime the computer would startup, Avira found a virus called "Winlogin.exe". I tried the "Quarantine" option but it kept popping up. Eventually I just clicked "Rename". Now when starting the computer it loads the Bios and goes to the XP boot screen - and then restarts - over and over and over. I've tried booting in safe mode - same thing.
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Aug 2, 2009
when out of no where, I received those weird progams on my PC which are those fake Virus scanners and such. i then deleted it from the source, and ran my Nortan scan and my spysweeper, and they found nothing wrong with my pc. Now, the PC will NOT let me go to "important" sites. For example, Bank of America, Paypal, anti-virus sites, Ebay, etc. But will let me go to sites like Myspace or forums. I had my favs on my toolbar as tiles so its easier to access them, i had about 10 of them, and now only 5 remain after the whole thing happened, and the 5 that were removed were "important" sites. Almost every thing on my tool bar was removed, including File, Edit, View, Tools, and such. My search engine is still displayed though.
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Nov 5, 2006
I have a lot of malware on my computer. I have run ad-aware, spybot, avg anti-spyware, and some others all in safe mode. Still I got lots of issues. Ran Kaspersky Anti-Virus and avg anti-virus, but like before lots of problems still.
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Feb 14, 2005
The error that was provided by you was:-the instruction at "0x026a6290" referenced memory at "0x00000000" the memory could not be "written.
does anyone know what it means?
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Oct 9, 2007
I have AVG and now I cannot receive emails unless I do a hard reboot of the computer. I can get the initial emails, but once the AVG runs the email scan, it times out and says cannot find the server.I have to hard reboot again in order to receive the emails. I have tried everything my limited skills allow me.This is frustrating.I am running Outlook Express for my emails, through Comcast.
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Aug 31, 2006
I hate when my computer goes into hibernation when im trying to use a program such as Mirc, or scanning for viruses. How do i turn off the hibernation? (when my screen burns black and my system shuts down sort of) one time i ran bearshare in the background and it didnt hibernate, but it always does if i dont have that program up.
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Dec 19, 2006
My AdAware tea-timer located an instance of FastSearch. I had AdAware quarantine and remove this. I see no instance of it after running AdAware again, but when trying to run Spybot S&D and Panda Scan my computer locked up on both programs. I've ran HJT and see no reference to FastSearch, but do see a few WinLogOn entries that look suspicous to me, as well as a Wild Tangent entry I know will need to be removed. I'd just like to have some more experienced eyes take a look at my HJT log.I'm running XP Home edition on a HP Pavillion a320n with 512 RAM (yes, time to add some new memory as well).
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Oct 22, 2005
I have a pretty old and crappy computer with a 40gb HDD. Just a week ago I had like 13-14 GB free on it. Then I got a virus. I successfully cleared out all traces of the virus that I could find using ad-aware and trend micro house call.When I was scanning with adaware, it shows the filenames and paths being scanned. There were all of these files(and I mean thousands) with porn names, and I had never put them there. Adaware didn't catch them as any sort of bad file either. The weird thing is, when I went to the directory that it said they were located in, nothing was there. I even made hidden files visible and still nothing.
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Oct 3, 2005
Went in safe mode and ran my scans, it changed the look of my XP desktop back to classic and I can't change it back through Control Panel.
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Jan 5, 2005
can somebody plz help me recently my computer has being acting really slow i recently was downloading big files onto my hard drive and thats when it started so i burnt the files on to cd and deleted them but its still running slow i tried a scan using registry mechanic and lots of problems came up but i couldnt repair them because i had to pay for the program.
i am running windows XP i have 224 MB of RAM, a 1.66 GHZ processor and i have a 28.6 GB hard drive which im only using 10.8 GHZ of
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Apr 21, 2008
i have a hp deskjet 4180 and for the first few months i had it, i've had no problems. Since then it hasn't worked properly. it keeps giving me an error that the hp cue-scanning flow component has encountered a problem and needs to close. and i usually scan my checks to my bank thru my scanner but now my bank isn't even picking up that i have a scanner.
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Jun 10, 2005
so I'm ready to upgrade this thing to pro from ME. when i get to the boot up screen it starts scanning files or something along those lines. n/e ways, eventually it says that the ohci1394.sys file is corrupt then it has to restart. i have no clue what to do, i've never had this menu pop up when trying to install and i've used this cd before. any ideas on what to do?
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Feb 26, 2005
I have a DELL Dimension 2350 Series computer with Win XP Home. Win Home was re installed by a friend who is knowdedgeable about computer Since then, Windows update has failed to come up with any updates of any kind. When I access the site, the screen states that it is scanning for updates but that's all... no updates ... and no SP2 either. My computer is unsecure
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Apr 12, 2006
i have in the windows task manager in the process tab runing system.exe according to processlibrary.com this is a trojan.mitglieder.b and i tried to end the process from the task manager it will start counting and shut down my pc. how can i remove this trojan.?
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Dec 31, 2006
I just recently deleted a folder that i wasn't supposed to delete inside my EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. Inside that folder were 2 other very important sub folders. It was over 8 gigs so when i deleted it, i fortunately commited the same mistake of pressing the "yes" button again when it asked the files to bypass the recycling bin being permanently deleted from the computer. In fact it happened so fast it seemed like it vaporized. It was hard to believe that over 8 gigs of files were eliminated that fast, whereas usually any big file i would delete would normally take a while for the computer to process. I seriously doubt the worst here, and i have tried about 4 data recovery programs that were only able to detect the very main folder that was deleted but not the more important 2 subfolders inside of it containing the big chunk of the data. I've even been able to detect files that were deleted months ago through these programs, but not the important 8 gigabyte chunk i just deleted an hour ago. By the way i tried scanning both the C rive(main) and the external hard drive and browsing through the :/recycle folders, but to no avail
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Mar 14, 2005
Recently I removed all malware from a friends PC 'that I could find' with x2 spyware removal tools, sophos anti-virus app and manually looking through program files in explorer.Since doing this I have stopped all annoying pop-ups and IE is running a lot quicker but there is a RUNDLL message that I cannot get rid of:
Error loading c:Documents and Settingsusername locals settings empse.dll
The specified module could not be found.I have cleared out the temp file in hope that something in there was looking for se.dll but no luck.
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Jul 18, 2010
I had a malware infection some time ago, which I hope is gone. Then later I had a firefox update and now all things have gone wonky. For some reason my internet connections reset to using a proxy. Once I unchecked that option in Firefox and also under LAN settings, at least I now have both Firefox and IE working again. But I can't go to Windows Update website, or really most microsoft websites. On either browser. They both give me error messages. I am suspicious that it has something to do with the malware but I don't know what to do.
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May 3, 2005
Pc running 2000 professional which I think has been hijacked and has perhaps other malware problems. I don't know 2000 at all. Programs work and you can hook up to the internet, but as soon as you do, according to the connection status, it is sending out bytes by the thousands rapidly and receiving some bytes and therefore I cannot download anything to fight what I believe are hijacks/malware etc as the line seems jammed and all the programs say unable to download. You cannot also it seems hook up to his home page. Email jams up as well. I managed to copy the "hijack this" program from my laptop to his pc and thus I can post this log of his pc.If we can stop the hijack etc and I can download from the interent, I will update his Norton, download ad-aware and spybot and spyblaster and show him how to use these to prevent this in future.
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Jul 21, 2010
i was wondering if these two was really a malware. coz this two was detected by my avira at the start up.are there any errors on my system? or this two was really infected?
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Oct 24, 2006
computer is infected from a malicious program which always prompt to download a antimalware program. it happened when my friend tried to browse a porno site, nfortunately, my pc doesn't have antivirus or any internet protection... what should i do? when i open my internet explorer, it gives me a new defualt home page which informs me that my computer is infected and i have to buy their software to eliminate the problem. i believe my internet explorer is infected with a malware virus
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Jul 21, 2010
The guy who carries out any repairs or adds/replaces any hardware on my system told me about a great new security program he had found titled Emsisoft Anti-Malware. I downloaded this yesterday and noticed a feature called Hijack Free which I thought was probably similar to the old Hijack This, anyway I did a scan then clicked on a button for an online analysis which reported that I had 35 Trojans.
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Jul 26, 2008
I had some malware or adware that I got rid of , I think. In the process, I may have made a mess of things and now I have this blue screen appearing regularly with the message: "page_fault_in_nonpaged_ area " along with some instructions to disable bios memory options such as caching and shadowing and it often reloads. There are also some 0x00000050 type numbers that change each time.I also upgraded to service pack 3 with no change.I can usually hit function 8 and I am back in business unless I let the machine sit idle when the blue screen reappears. I reinstalled XP with no different results.
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Aug 20, 2006
I recently ran a scan in ewido and it detected 4200 malware however it won't delete or fix any of these problems and the log is too big to post on the forums.
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Dec 2, 2008
After waking from hibernation, my system has been freezing or crashing. The video is also fuzzy and slightly pixelated for a minute, then it clears up. Sometimes after the crash, I'll get a message floating on the screen "Set resolution to 1280 x 1024" or something like that. The screen has been set the same since I purchased the computer. I did try resetting the resolution, and I am still crashing. I followed the procedure for malware and came up ok.
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Jul 6, 2006
A friend told me to scan my registry for Wineries and lo and behold I found something: My ComputerHkey_Current_UserSoftwareMicrosoftSearch AssistantACMru5603 In this... there is a file named: 002 and 003 one is called Cache one is called Wineries. Their types are REG_SZ
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