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Hey guys, My AV has located a rootkit MBR:\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 I have already tried a solution that I found in this forum but it has not worked. basically I have run bootkit_remover.rar and run it. It returned the following: -- [COLOR="Red"]Bootkit Remover (c) 2009 eSage Lab [url]www.esagelab.com[/url] Program version: 1.2.0.0 OS …

Hi! An email was opened. At that time, I guess a Trojan was downloaded. My Avast antivirus went nuts; I couldn't open the task manager or other system programs; I couldn't system restore; i couldn't even shut the computer down. I had to do a manual shutdown (held the power …

Hello all, 2 days ago my computer was infected by something called Windows Safe Mode. it tells me my ram usage is maxed and one of my hard drives has failed. Also, after 15 minutes or so I will get 1 or 2 error messages and clicking anything on them …

Hello, My computer has been restarting without a user prompt for some reason. A Comodo notification comes up saying that there is some registry error with a pending file rename operation. Below is the Hijackthis logfile. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 4:03:57 PM, on 3/14/2011 Platform: …

Hello Again I have the Safe Mode virus on my PC and have had no luck in removing it. I have followed other advice and booted the PC with F8 then clicked the Command mode. I then typed in the following: REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System/v DisableTaskMgr/t REG_DWORD/d O /f - to …

Hello, Earlier today my laptop was taken out by a virus, possibly a parasite. There had been a few errors thoughout the day, my laptop is well maintained but I didnt think anything of the messages and I am usually capable of fixing a problem. The browser crashed, and I …

Hi! I hope all is well. I'm having some issues with my computer and was wondering if someone can help. Currently my computer is running 100% svchost.exe and I can do nothing. It's also using up a great deal of my memory. I really don't know what to do. Does …

I cant access to Google webpage or any Google related web pages including youtube i can watch videos but i cant sign in to my account. It shows page cannot be found or page dose not exist error when i try to go on those sites, but an hour age …

Hello, I was wondering if you could please help me. I get the above error frequently when I run IE. Below is my Hijack this log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:32:15 PM, on 5/3/2008 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 …

My subscription to Norton was up so I looked on this to see what would be good for free. Now the following is not unethical but it is still funny how there is a price for the rich and a price for the poor. I went to Avast and it …

I think similar threads have been posted about this virus. It disables your sound, flashes 98 theme then back to XP, sometimes it stays on 98. I've also discovered that it disables all processes that run C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs. It doesn't seem to activate immediately in fact it activates randomly, …

Okay, I to be honest I really don't know much about computer's just from watching others. So I need some answers to my problem, First of all I had Norton to keep my computer safe well, when I bought the computer I did know what it takes to actually keep …

Hello, About 2 weeks ago I got a pop up that appeared to be a Windows update, but upon completion, all I saw was one of those aggressive programs that says you have infections but there wasn't any when I ran my antivirus program. I ran AVG, Malwarebytes and Hijackthis …

I have laptop Toshiba satelite L555 with MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit; AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile M520; 4.0GB RAM; AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 and it working reasonably good, however I think is not fast eneough what specifications would say. For that reason I make …

I'm new on this forum and I don't know if I post it at the correct thread or topic but just want to know if my system is infected of virus or is there any software running in my computer that is harmful to my computer. I was attack by …

Hello, A trojan dropper (according to malwarebytes) was downloaded to my system. I tried getting rid of it with malwarebytes, but the virus keeps coming back. The second time Malwarebytes identified it as a gamervance, but it continued to stay on my computer. In addition to that, my computer has …

Hi, I need some help with this because it's driving my friends crazy. My Yahoo email account was hacked by this spammer and I can't get rid of the virus by using Kaspersky anti-virus, running the full scan. The trojan keeps using my email address to spam my friends with …

Hello. Lately, my laptop has been acting very weird. Its been shutting off and restarting on its own, it froze yesterday and showed a blue screen saying it crashed and had to restart, and then today, my firefox has been opening by itself and keeps opening windows that exceed 30 …

Hey all ! I have an Acer laptop with Vista on it. It had some viruses on it and also ZoneAlarm firewall. I "think" I got all the nasties off of it and I removed zonealarm. Now, everytime I bootup, the Windows firewall stays on for about 30 seconds and …

Hi I'm a bit of a noob and don't really know where to go from here. It seems I have a virus but my computer won't let me open any .exe files, or let me into control panel, my documents etc. All the thumbnails on the desktop are missing. I …

Respected sir, please help me for search room avaibility 1:- i have one table name room table coloum have id , name , email, No_Of_room , check_date, out_date and No_Of_room have 10 if user book two room on date 24/02/2011 to 26/02/2011 if at that time user search room avaibility …

Ladies and Gents, I would appreciate your help solving a problem with an XP laptop I have been asked to clean up. It was riddled with Malware and Spyware including various fake scanners asking the user to upgrade to pro. I have been running malwarebytes and avg 2011 on it, …

Hi guys, I've been fighting this bug and could use some help. Windows XP SP3 and I've lost the desktop. Not just icons, etc. No desktop at all. I can run from Task Manager and this is my second machine so I can do most anything I need for the …

Can anyone help with possible whistler@mbr. I am an experienced it professional and no stranger to malware removal of all types, in fact I am generally quite expert in this field, but this one has me stumped.# I am running W7 ultimate Avast detected Whistler@mbr on my system however there …

Any ideas on this one.....? I cleaned down a virus infected pc (Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP3 with IE8). All the scans are now clean but iexplore.exe runs as a process in task manager. It throws an error every few minutes saying Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and …

Hi Folks; This is my first post. I attempted to search through some of the threads hoping to find the specific problems i see on my desktop (running on XP), to no avail. Hope you can help. Thanks Symptoms: Virus or Malware downloaded? 1. Have to type "explorer.exe" on Task/Manager/File/new …

I have somehow contracted the search engine redirect virus. I have tried various remedies I've found online and nothing has worked. Here's my HiJackThis log file. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:38:09 AM, on 2/9/2011 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT …

I think my girlfriends netbook has become infected with a rootkit virus thingy. I've tried several things the latest of which was reinstalling Windows XP. Unfortunately search results in Google still redirect to random shopping websites. Below the various log files as requested. Any help will be appreciated! mbam log: …

Hi, I have been able to help myself and friends with this forum before, but this time I cannot work it out just by reading previously written threads. My friend has a fake System Tool anti virus. It is preventing her from opening all files mentioned in the sticky: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread134865.html[/url] …

Hi, My Internet Explorer opens for no reason and it's driving me crazy. I know what happened too. My girlfriend installed something from the Internet and then it started. She said that when she installed it nothing really installed so I am guessing it installed some malware. Its all ads …

My sister has a problem with her laptop: whenever a menu/folder is opened there is mad scrolling through all the entries which you can't stop. This is driving her crazy because you can't run anything effectively without restarting the computer several times. Adaware, spybot, macafee and a few other malware …

my co-worker has infected your computer @ work...I have been able to get into the divice manager and find out that there is 5 viruses..when I turn on the comp, all I get is the wallpaper, no shortcuts, no tool bar @ the bottom...nothing. I tried to download another anti-virus …

Hi everyone, hoping I can find someone that can help. Recently my computer's background changed to a blue screen with a message saying "Warning! Spyware detected." Since the computer wasn't used much I failed to update any antivirus software and let it lapse. Now I can't even get on the …

Hi .. i am unable to install any anti virus or run avast as i dont know what is wrong with my system and this is irritating me neither i can open task manager as it says it has been disabled by admin nor can i run safe mode, please …

My PC has windowxp/SP2 and I can no longer run cmd.exe using either of these: 1. Start\Run\cmd or Start\Run\cmd.exe or Start\Run\C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe These will get me this error: Windows cannot find 'cmd'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start …

Hello all. Well.. Where to begin? just over a month ago a rougue anti-malware program named antimalware doctor began appearing on my computer. This troubled me for quite some time, and i tried many different things to get rid of it. However in the end i did a sytem restore …

I have Windows XP and am wondering what compatible combination I need for full protection. Bundled with my new XP PC came Norton Anti-Virus 2005, free 61 day subscription, so I'll stick with that for the minute. (I have also been given McAfee Internet Security Suite 2005 Version 7.0 by …

Just moved and the cable/internet guy told me I have a nasty trojan called "deploy.akamaitechnologies"..... said he'd seen them before and they were very hard to get rid of, I've looked online and found many posts from people with this problem yet no concrete solutions, I need help taking if …

hello yestoday i think i might of downloaded a virus, ive uses this site before to remove viruses was very helpful. i cannot switch on my windows security centre and also have a unwanted virus program, which just appeared in my toolbar, and keeps popping up with error messages. i …

Ive been given a friends laptop to look at and suspect it has a virus on it as it is incredibly slow and some applications dont load, google chrome wont launch, windows live mail launches but when you try to send an email the program crashes.. and the laptop itself …

I am looking for an antivirus for Windows XP because I am tired of all that shit that tries to infect my PC. So far I looked into [url=http://www.deprice.com/kasperskyantiviruspersonal.htm]Kaspersky Anti Virus[/url] and [url=http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=100]McAfee VirusScan[/url]. Which one is better or should I pick something entirely different?

My local server is sending me messages stating that I have many viruses. I run Norton regularly how can that be? I run the updates all the time. So which one is better AGV Antivirus or Norton? I appreciate your comments. Thanks a lot!:confused:

her pc has been acting real bad. i had her buy the norton antivirus. it has helped but, it keeps blocking attacks. i wonder if its too late.

Hi, Can any one please tell me which is the best anti virus whn the following two r compared: 1-Panda 2-Trend Micro Please give the reasons as well Thanks & Regards,

I was happily surfing away when I got a fake windows alert saying I had an infection, disconnected the net and tried closing the alert, which opened a fake explorer also yelling about infection. Closed that and ran HT which had an on entry of: F2 Reg: System.ini: UserInit=userinit.exe That's …

Hi folks, First time user of the forum, desparately needing help with an infection/virus/malware on my PC running XP. My antivirus has started going bonkers popping up with messages similar to "A threat has been detected and has now been fixed. Click here for further details". My AV software is …

Hi Laptop caught a virus the other day so I have spent all day running virus scans but am now at a complete loss to why I still can't connect to the internet. I have tried pinging yahoo.com to test with no packets lost etc so there is an internet …

Please see log below and let me know what I can "fix" - it seems like there's way too much stuff out there. PLEASE let me know as I'm a novice and afraid to remove the wrong thing and make matters worse. THANKS!! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan …

Hi Guys, For the past couple of days explorer keeps opening the wrong page, it only shows adverts when I want to open a new page. I don't know anything about computers SOMEONE HELP ME. I've run malwarebytes scan, windows defender and they found 3 trojan files, deleted them but …

please can someone help with the above? here is my hijackthis report: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 18:43:58, on 22/01/2011 Platform: Windows 7 (WinNT 6.00.3504) MSIE: Internet Explorer v9.00 (9.00.7930.16406) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Audiogalaxy\Audiogalaxy.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Creative\MediaSource5\Go\CTCMSGoU.exe C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast5\AvastUI.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe …