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I am not able to open my registry and also task manager on my domain machine. Task manager button is disable. but when i enabled it through some ways and press it window of task manager disapear in a friction of second the same situation is with registry when i …
New malware pretends to be an antivirus program , infiltrates your system. Started in Oct 2010. Does not let you launch anything... Had to go to safemode... Deleted tick off all weird strings from MSconfig startup (i.e. IJHHLUVDLTA) deleted all "antivirus actions" values from regedit...including weird strings in Startupreg folder …
Alright so here is what happened, my friend didnt have a anti-virus on her computer and she got some viruses, so I downloaded Avast on it because it has been reliable for me. But when I downloaded it the taskbar turned grey, and can not be switched back to the …
I am writing this because i tried to solve this problem a month ago and it did not fully go away. Within seconds of booting up, i lose all sound and and my taskbar reverts to some really old format. Google also constantly redirects me to known attack sites which …
I can sign into my messenger, but the icon goes down into my tool bar, and when I put my cursor over it, the icon totally disappears and signs me out! I’ve followed the instructions in the link [url]http://messenger-support.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8B3F39C76A8B853F!15940.entry[/url], it worked for a few hours but the problem started again.I’ve …
My computer was slowing down and I was getting freeze ups and "not reponding" messages until some days i couldn't use it at all. It was like my whole computer had a demented mind of it's own and everything i tried to do it would block me. Sometimes it would …
At first taskmanager is disabled as well but i fixed it now either blue screen keeps popping up or explorer.exe keeps crashing and restarting please help:( Hijack this: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 17:28:50, on 22/10/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 …
For some reason I cannot open Internet explorer and connect to the internet on my cable connection. But if I open MSN messenger or any other internet related program it connects fine. I run Windows XP, Adaware, Spyware Doctor, Panda antivirus/antispyware, and I ran trendmicro. I don't understand this, please …
Hello. After scanning this computer in safe mode with Nod32, Makwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, and TFC I got rid of around ~700 infections. But still I believe that there is something left because malwarebytes sometimes finds some folders infected. I scanned again with all those programs and non of them found anything. …
please let me know what I can delete without causing problems. my machine is running slow and I run ESET security and have run spybot but am sure there are other grimlins in my machine Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 4:23:23 PM, on 10/25/2010 Platform: Unknown …
heres my hijack this log, when i ran the program it asked me to do a notepad thing about some hosts reports, and to delete the line(s) the sayd hijackthis report but there was no line saying this in the note pad, well here my log, my 2wire box says …
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 4:37:50 PM, on 10/21/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgwdsvc.exe C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\mdm.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program …
I got nailed with xmedx emails going out to my Yahoo.mail contact list. I deactivated the yahoo account and asked it be on the list for permanent deletion. Then the FaceBook account started sending out xmedx mail and some kind of online chocolates store. So I deactivated the Facebook account …
Hi wonderfull team of deniweb. short story of my sick computer - my internet explorer redirects me to random sites,very very slow, freezes all the time and lately turns off completly by itself.very annoying! I have followed the steps of your instrustions how to initially clea a little before posting …
I have something weird going on with my pc. Internet Explorer opens by itself, usually some kind of advertisement. Also, I never use IE...I use Firefox. Any help would be much appreciated. I have downloaded HijackThis. Here is the Log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 9:40:31 …
Earlier today i got a virus at work that was pretty bad, changing the background on my desktop and slowing down my machine incredibly, while pulling up popups telling me to download and buy some bogus antivirus program. I approached the problem like i normally do by running MalwareBytes, which …
I typically use mozilla/firefox as my web browser and only occasionally use internet explorer. Recently, internet explorer has been opening by itself and always to pop-up ads. My symantec antivirus program has also been detecting trojan viruses around the same time that the problem with internet explorer began. Below are …
So I'm having a problem with my computer running slow and it seems to stem from multiple iexplore.exe instances running even though I use firefox and never use IE. It is really jamming up my system, I've read several different accounts from people and it seems to be linked to …
Hello: I have a client who got an email from a friend which seemed ok until it was set on to 5 other people. Now it has replicated itself 25 times to these people and everytime the computer opens outlook expess it wants to send another 5 replications out. The …
My IE keeps opening on start up, I've checked the msconfig start up but it's not on there and I just ran Hijackthis and this is my log file for it. Am grateful for any help in sorting it out. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 16:44:11, …
Hello Everyone, My computer has been very very slow lately when I click on the IE icon it is roughly 30 seconds before it starts to open a window and 30 to 45 seconds before it will open MSN in full any ideas here is my hijack log Thanks in …
Hi there i'm not fantastic with pc's but i'm not totally useles i can easliy follow instructions. Right anyway I am having serious problems with my pc. I cannot download any antivirus' also when i click on certain web links eg [url]http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/[/url] it brings up problem loading page. This happens …
Recently bought new laptop Toshiba Satellite L555 with Windows 7 Home Pro, 4 Gb ram 320 Gb HD and everithing working perfectly. Only internet and e-mail start to work pretty slow even I have fast connection G2. Here's my scans and please if someone can help me to cleanup computer. …
hi, My PC is infected wid spyware..i hve norton & its not able too find spyware..as i also update it daily.. :( can u guys tell me better spyware removal tool..!! Thanks :)
hi im pretty sure i have some sort of maleware or virus on my computer, sometimes when i search for something in the search bar i would get redirected to another site the same thing happens when im using google. The page layout of google even changes from time to …
ive done the scans asked on first page and here are the logs any help would be much appricated having problems uploading GMEROne GMERTwo thankyou
i have looked in these forums and have followed this thread [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread47663.html[/URL] and i still have it going on... this is a close up to what is going on [IMG]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b27/Silverflame20/background.png[/IMG] multiple scans, nothing... so i attempted to have no background at all to see what would happen... in this case …
Hi, My computer seems to have got inefected with Win32.Bamital.F how should I remove it? Thanks
Hi all, I have AVG installed w/constant updates, I run spybot - S&D on alternate days with ad-aware, I have spywareblaster and spywareguard loaded. AVG now takes over 18 hours to run. Switching from one tsl task to another can take 10 minutes. And there seems to be no let …
I got up this morning and computer was working funny. I rebooted and crypt_20 would not end. I had no idea what this file was. I clicked end program and rebooted. I ran malwarebytes and found 6 or so virus's and/or rootkits. I rebooted and ran again. found 2 nasties …
Hi, I desperately need help to fix my computer since it's currently close to impossible to work with it. I use a HP Pavilion DM3 (which i regret I ever bought) with a AMD Athlon Neo X2 1.60 GHz and 4 giggs of RAM. The machine is running Windows 7 …
Yesterday, I had some Windows Internet Explorer browsers open and all of a sudden about 9 or more of them popped opened, minimized and all containing the same website (which was one of the websites I had previously had open). I'm not sure if it was a virus, spyware or …
Could you please help me? There is the Trojan.FileHarakiri virus on my computer [URL="http://xmages.net/storage/10/1/0/4/3/upload/075b2803.jpg"]http://xmages.net/storage/10/1/0/4/3/upload/075b2803.jpg[/URL] My antivirus is unable to do anything. This virus is corrupting my files and I can't open Word and Excel files, as well as my photos and e-mail. How do I delete it from my computer? …
Hello, I'm not really sure what I am doing, but I know I need HELP!!!! Here is my hijacker log Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 11:04:39 AM, on 6/18/04 Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x 4.10.2222A) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE …
This has been going on for about a week now with a friend of mine who uses AIM. Since last Thursday, I've been having trouble communicating with her through AIM or any other client I've tried in which I've used AIM to contact her, be it AOL Instant Messenger itself, …
Hey guys! well my pc's having multiple problems... 1.my pc gets restarted on its on once in a while and when its back my antivirus pops up saying something about a minidump problem :( 2. My browser keeps opening a few ad pages on its own. I use google chrome. …
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 4:16:34 PM, on 10/3/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe C:\Program Files\Juniper Networks\Common Files\dsNcService.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe C:\Program …
Hi, As I am browsing the internet, multiple IE windows start popping up uncontrolably. The only way to shut them off is through task manager. The same thing happened on a co-worker's computer once, so I am fairly sure it's a virus. Here is the MBAM log Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.46 …
My CPU sometimes is on max all the time. I found msmsgs.exe. Can anybody help me evaluating HJK log? Thanks! Poultje. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 3:55:15 PM, on 9/1/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe …
[B]My PC has been infected with the [U]'Security Tool[/U]' spy ware. I think I have managed to successfully remove the spy ware from my system but could someone please take a look at my HiJack This log and tell me if there's something I've missed?[/B] Running processes: C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\ControlDeck\ControlDeckStartUp.exe …
Hi, I keep having problems installing iolo System Mechanic Professional 9 . The Anti-Virus won't install and I get a window that says there is a problem with something called Real Time. Can anyone help me?
hi im an autocad student in colledge and use my old laptop to do schoolwork at home. this is the problem. when i start my computer it shows the dell screen and loading bar then goes to the screen where you choose to go into windows safe mode or start …
Malicious Virus attack! Dear Forum members; I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I contracted a dsc.exe virus yesterday. Solutions I found for removing it did not work – I assume they were written for other OS’s. However, this morning I managed to remove it using MBAM. I quarantined all …
Hi. I've been having this problem with Firefox & Chrome where searches are taking me to wrong sites. I've done everything as required with Gmer, Malwarebytes etc. Here are the logs:- GMER One log: GMER 1.0.15.15281 - [url]http://www.gmer.net[/url] Rootkit quick scan 2010-09-20 19:25:09 Windows 6.1.7600 Running: 0g2vzqhn.exe; Driver: C:\Users\BOBBYD~1\AppData\Local\Temp\kwkirpoc.sys ---- …
Hello; First off, a repeated thank you for past assists (can't get my old i.d back, so this is a new one). I followed the sticky (Read this and follow before posting ..) and have run ino trouble. ATF cleaning went well, gmer scan ok, mbam won't run, my antivrus …
hi i am facing this new virus name new win32, i reformated my hard disk to remove it but still it keeps coming back...i do not why , and one more thing how this virus is coming because of internet ,or some other reason...just i want to know it BUT …
Hi all, upon start-up I am always getting a "generic host process" error from Win 32 (using windows XP). I did a virus scan with Mcafee, which is completely up to date, and found I am infected with the TDSS.c!mem Trojan virus. Ever since I am getting this error, i'm …
Hello all, you must have read this before, but I need help. My email account has been hacked into and I changed it 1 week ago and again this new one has been hacked into as well. I have run norton still the same thing. Trial version of McAfee has …
I've been having one problem after another since yesterday morning. The problems started with notifications that an application could not be executed, because the file is infected. I ran Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and that seemed to do the trick, at least until this morning, when problems started showing up. In order: …
i have done hijack this and the report follows Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 22:00:40, on 18/09/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe c:\Program Files\Common Files\iS3\Anti-Spyware\SZServer.exe C:\Program Files\Trusteer\Rapport\bin\RapportMgmtService.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe …
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