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Hello, I think I've acquired a virus(es) in the past few days. Some of the symptoms: - Programs missing in the Start > All Programs. I can still open them if I go into the C: drive and look for them. - Some of the icons on my desktop disappeared. …

Hi, I have a Vshare redirect that goes straight to vshare.toolbarhome.com/?hp=df when I open Internet Explorer. I thought I had got rid of it on Firefox as I edited the URL to about:home but when I input a search it goes straight back to the Vshare URL search link. I've …

i konw u may have answered this question about 1000000 times but i have the win32 problem coz i have a virus in the system 32 folder and i can't get rid of it because it created problems in my current antivirus (kaspersky personal) and when i uninstalled it and …

I wish I could follow the "read me first" instructions however I have a virus which whenever I attempt to open programs it comes up with a search window. I think I removed the virus that caused this a while ago (not sure) and it just messed things up. Can …

Hi, I don't have much time left when I think my computer got infected and I'm afraid of turning off my computer now... I was online for some time until I got a shutdown coundown box that will shutdown my computer automaically after 1 minute but I managed to stop …

Hi All, I know that this question has been asked earlier but my hijackthis log did not contained the entries mentioned by previous members. I am facing the same problem, my taskbar changes color after around 15 min and sound gets disabled, I ran Malwarebytes Anti-Malware but there were no …

My computer is spazzing out. Its clicking on anything and everything launching a bunch of applications and typing random letters in any search it sees. I ran a complete virus scan using avast free. No virus came up but this feel like a virus. How do I get rid of …

Help Please! every time i click on a google link for any search using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, I am redirected to a different page, usually an ad. I have McAfee installed and activated and it removed 1 trojan a few weeks ago, but has picked up nothing since, …

I work at a small business and my computer is telling me it has trojans on it. I cannot access the internet, a blank page comes up and says "unable to connect". I disabled the firewall and as soon as I open internet explorer back up the firewall turns back …

is there anyone that can walk a beginner thru this. the windows safe mode virus is keeping me from opening in safe mode and running any antivirus programs, etc. i am unable to do anything that i am currently capable of doing myself. Split from this thread --> [B][url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread351289.html[/url][/B]

greetings to all and thanks for taking the time to read this... ill get down to the point - whenever i go into my documents or any folder non-internet related, it immediately stops working and needs to shut down... i have a problem report up right now on Vista which …

HELP ME! So my dad's compaq lappy died and he bought another one from his neighbor for $100. Turns out that thing is so bogged down with nasties it's not even remotely funny. I d/l'd MBAM and tried to update. ERROR 12092, can't update last database was 12/20/2010 so I …

Hi, I recently got a message on my computer (Windows Vista Home Premium) from Windows defender, stating that I have harmful or unwanted software on my laptop. I click remove, windows defender says "successful", but this same pop-up comes back when I reboot and while my laptop is on. I …

I'm on a custom Alienware laptop, running Windows XP. I've been having issues for about 4 days with a Generic Host Win22 error message. About 10 minutes later my taskbar turns white and looks all Windows 98 funky. I have read several of the threads on this problem and am …

Dear All, Please Help me, An E-mail was automatically sent to all contacts that were added in my accounts, That e-mail contain a malicious link inside it. I also received this e-mail on my yahoo account because my yahoo ID was also added in contacts of my AOL id, I …

So I've been trying to deal with a virus that's been affecting my rundll32.exe, but have been unsuccessful so far. Here's my HJT logfile (there's a heck lot of rundll running). Please help! I've used avast and malwarebytes to try cleaning it out but nothing works. I even went into …

It appeairs that I may have been hijacked. I have run AVG & Microsoft Security Essentials in Safe Mode and there were no threats. When I am in Safe Mode I cannot connect to the internet to download the hijackthis to provide you a log. Any suggestions how I can …

hi I need help I cannot open any program up as this antivirus adware winweb security 2008 has hijacked my computer telling me i have tons of trojans & worms on my computer, it wont let me even open task manager, i can't find it on my computer, please help

Hi, I'm currently on my works PC, but after 2 days of suffering this bitch and trying various solutions to no avail, I thought I better get the ball rolling... I am running Windows XP and the virus has rendered use of task manager and delition of the virus DLL …

Hi, My computer has received a virus, which upon booting up, it comes up with boot error and goes into a fake 'safe mode'. I am unable to access anything from that screen accept a fake virus scanner that requires purchasing before use. I have however found an unsafe way …

I am currently running Window's Vista on my Toshiba laptop. I got the laptop for free from a friend and there seems to be quite a few issues with it. Problems: I get popups in new tabs constantly for registry cleaners and that I am infected with registry errors. I …

Hallo, Avast has located a rootkit MBR:\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 I have already tried a solution that I found in this forum but it has not worked. I have run TDSSKiller but that was not enough. Can someone help me? This is the log of TDSSKiller: 2011/03/17 18:33:23.0157 4372 TDSS rootkit removing tool …

I have a processing showing up in my task manager (iexplorer.exe) this is the first time I've seen it. It shows up when I start my computer and is taking up a very large amount of memory. Please tell me how to delete it? I ran hijackthis and it does …

Hello. Not too long ago, I started getting error messages every time I started my computer that said this: "Error loading C:\Windows\ofanomohagiqin.dll" "Error loading C:\Windows\rmopup.dll" And this happens every time I get to the desktop. At first I didn't think much of it, but then I noticed that folders on …

So, I got this virus a little while back, I've been following the threads on resolving it to no avail. I'm running Windows 7 with Avast antivirus, I have MBAM installed. In fact, as soon as I realized I had a virus, I tried running MBAM, but the virus was …

I'm attempting to fix a friend's laptop, and I definitely need some help on this one. Ran several AV progs which detected a couple of trojans. I'm kicking myself for not recording names. AV progs removed them, but laptop is still having issues. Nearly all the services are disabled and …

when i click to open ccleaner, or speccy, or picasa from the desktop shortcut... it opens for a few seconds n then a pop up window shows up, saying - "Runtime error! program: C:\program files\speccy\speccy.exe R6002 -floating point support not loaded" i did a few google search relating to this …

My SAMSUNG mobile phone has faced to a virus attack(I think).It stucks sometimes.And sometimes it restarts automatically.When i connect it to my laptop & browse it's memory card,it shows a file calls "_UnqiueId.dat".I deleted that file.But when i reconnect the phone to laptop,it shows that file again.I think that file …

Computer: Dell Laptop OS: Windows Vista Hey guys, my mom gave me this totally wrecked laptop from viruses to fix. It has this virus called 'Antimalware Doctor' and ever since it got installed from her laptop, a bunch of stuff would pop up and nothing opens(firefox,regedit). I even tried putting …

Hi I'm new here and I wanted some help with this if you don't mind my pc cant repair its local connection always says windows could not finish repairing the following problem and at startup I can hear the windows sound effects and I am able to control the volume …

I am running Vista and I am unable to do a reinstall of Java. An internet explorer 7 file updated fairly recently, but I can't remember how to uninstall that one and I think that I'm remembering correctly, that that turned out to be one of the issues last time. …

When trying to run Windows Update, IE opens and displays "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". I can browse the internet normally. Symantec AV has found and removed an infection but problem still persists. Thank you in advance. Here are my log files: [B][U]GMER One[/U][/B] [CODE]GMER 1.0.15.15570 - http://www.gmer.net Rootkit …

Hey. I keep getting AVG popping up with a message that tells me that cookies.sqlite in the Firefox folder of my Document and Settings, within Application Data, folder is infected. I've followed the sticky and here are the results: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.46 [url]www.malwarebytes.org[/url] Database version: 4052 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack …

Hello everyone, Hi, I am new to this site. I joined because I have a major problem. I have a blue screen when I start my computer that says, "Warning! Spyware detected on your computer!" This replaces the background on my desktop. I have Norton Antivirus and I ran a …

After installing BearShareV9 now cannot open Internet Explorer. Tried turning DEP on Performance Options (Part of System Properties in the Control Panel. Decided to Unstall BearShare V9 - problem did not go away. Removed IE 8 and still reinstalled, problem did not go away. (To do this post I had …

I have this worm as of this morning i purchased and tried to install Trendmicro software and tried to download MS anti malware every time i get the message that says install is infected with win32/blaster.com, or autorun cannot open becuase it is infected with the worm. please help!!

Hi, This error message keeps popping up constantly Error loading c:\users\parath\appdata\local\BDAZ1ac.dll Acces denied Here is my log file Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 15:08:49, on 04-01-11 Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16982) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\OEM03Mon.exe C:\Program Files\Creative\Sound …

A new botnet has been discovered which is not only targeting users of UK banks, but doing so in a new and worrying manner. Said to comprise of in excess of 100,000 infected machines, the Zeus 2 botnet is operated and controlled from Eastern Europe according to [URL="http://www.trusteer.com/company-overview"]secure browsing security …

Hi all, I think I've got a rootkit infection. What I can see on my pc is that Ads windows are started by Internet Explorer and Firefox. Moreover there are programs that do not start and I must retry more times to start them. It happens with firefox, Internet explorer, …

Hello, A few weeks back I got a virus known as the AV Virus where a phony virus blocking software downloaded and installed on my system (I foolishly let my Free AVG expire and had not yet converted to the permanant free version). I immediatly openned task manager and ended …

Upon booting up my laptop today, Avast started showing me an alert for a "Malicious URL" even though I had no applications started and had not yet performed any actions. The popup message indicated that the site trying to be reached was 68.178.232.99/wpad.dat and the process trying to reach it …

First: Running Windows 7 Using Firefox 3.6.9 So, I managed to get something and it's causing my PC to come up with the old Rundll error at startup- "enemudivos.dll" could not be found, "specified module could not be found." The Ad-aware scan came up dry, so I decided to get …

Hi, Running Windows XP, Service Pack 3, Internet Explorer 8. When I do a Google Search and click on a destination it gets redirected. I have run numerous scans and virus checks. After cleaning my computer, it still redirects. I tried running the tasks in your 'do this first' post …

Hi DaniWeb, You've been great to me in the past, and now I'm turning back to you to help out with an odd issue I've just encountered. Recently I moved into a new place shared with several other people. When connecting to the internet from this new location, I noticed …

hi friends.. i need to know that is there any method to allow someone to access a file just one time,and delete that file itself.I just wanted to send some audio file to my friend and doesn't want to keep evidence of it..Is there anyway.... thanx in advance.

Hi, I have a small business and am looking for an encryption system for my files and email that doesn’t change the end user’s experience. The ones I’ve seen online require the end user to log in, download this, etc. These are my clients so I don’t want to add …

I have a terminal that throughout the day I will get the normal window shut down tones for no apparent reason. The computer never actually shuts down. To accompany this the terminal is extermely slow at times. I have swapped out memory and power supply with an identical terminal to …

Hi there, I have posted previously but did not post the required logs. The logs that i am attaching have been done in the last couple of days. Albeit, MBAM a few days before. Getting SVCHOST.EXE when starting up the computer. I think it did cause Internet Explorer 7 to …

Hi A few days ago AVG found win32 heur and claimed to have cleaned it. However, since then the computer has been really slow, and has been having trouble loading Windows on start up (the computer would load the bios and then the screen goes blank), so I am not …

Okay. My neighbor got into trouble. First, with some kind of infection (he thinks) and then by calling me [U]after[/U] he ran ComboFix (he wanted me to 'tell him what it means')! So, I am going to ask here for help. Attached is his CF Log and if some can …