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I'm having a problem with Google search results redirecting to advertisements. I can usually click the back button on my browser a few times to get the page I wanted. I'm using firefox, but it happens in IE as well. Additionally, when I shut down, or restart the machine, I …

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Hi Guys, I hope I am posting this in the correct place? I have a Acer 8935g with Windows 7 installed on it, and for the last month and a half the touchpad driver keeps disapearing - I reinstall it, and it works until I put the machine into hybernate …

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Hello, Sorry if I posted this on the wrong section. An sbcglobal.net email account I haven't used in a couple of years got hacked. One of my friend emailed me to let me know. It apparently send out a bunch of spam mail last night to all the people on …

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Hi there, I am hoping that somebody here might be able to help me. My kids managed to get some virus on my computer while I wasn't at home. I twigged when I got a popup box at my online banking sites.. eek! I ran AVG and it found a …

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Last week, I began installing some virus removal programs. It was comcast package with norton. Something happened either during or after and my computer just seem to start having errors. System restore was disabled but I ended up getting that back online but the internet connection is still giving me …

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Security researchers are warning that some 30,000 WordPress websites, 85% of them based in the US, have been compromised by a mass-injection hijack attack which sees visitors to any of more than 200,000 individual pages redirected to a Trojan infected rogue AV scam. [ATTACH=RIGHT]24076[/ATTACH]The senior security researcher with Websense Labs, …

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Ever since the last virus I thought I had removed, my PC has been acting strange. Every time a run superantispyware it will find a critial threat, a broken file assocation. When I try to shut windowns down or restart, I get 3 not responding messages about Rundll before the …

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i got a virus/malware called "windows secure kit 2012"....ran a quick scan with Microsoft security essentials (MSE) and nothing, the next day i ran a full scan and it said it removed a few things i can list if needed.. however the pop up reoccured and i ran the full …

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I keep getting an error message saying: **There was a problem starting msimeg32.dll. The specific module could not be found.** Picture of the exact error message can be found here: http://i44.tinypic.com/33n7rex.jpg And it keeps reapearing every time I log off/on, turn off/on and restart my pc, I went to several …

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Hello, I got a bug from going on the keltec site - there's discussion but no solution that I've been able to find. I tried to post here before but I could not post or PM for some reason. Now posting is working so.... I've been working on this issue …

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Have a desktop that was infected with a fake AV calling itself Internet Security something or other... I've been disabling and removing these for many of my friends and family for about a year now and usually have no problem... but this one was different... After several days of reading …

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Hello Helpers! My Compaq M2000 laptop has been a victim of a very silly mistake done by me. I've followed the steps given in the below link: http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/threads/134865/read-me-before-posting-a-request-for-assistance following are the logs for your persual: **GMER One.log:** GMER 1.0.15.15641 - http://www.gmer.net Rootkit quick scan 2012-03-20 22:48:27 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack …

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I'm a beginner (High school student) in Computer Science (Information Technology) and I've realized there's a lot of trojan horse on the computer at school, so I'm forced to take my laptop -.- However I was on the search for Anti-viruses it then made it clear to me that the …

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Ok, so, short version, my WoW account was hacked yesterday, and all my stuff was deleted. I uninstalled WoW, ran AVG virus scanner, and Advanced System Care scan, then I came here and ran the scans on the site, malewarebyte came up with 2, the rest negative, I just want …

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Hi all, I am hoping someone maybe able to help me. I have a Acer Aspire 9301AWSMi laptop,and has been running very slow recently. It is second hand, but was running fine up until about 2 months ago. This is the Hijackthis log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan …

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I attempted to remove some malware by myself and believe I successfully removed it, however I am unable to connect to the internet despite having a wireless connection that says connected. There are no packets being sent or received, and all the info under support tab (up address, subnet mask, …

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Hello, i am a pretty heavy gamer (20 hours a week) and have an i7 asus laptop. It has been functioning fine today, until it shut itself down while i was in a game. now it shuts it self down every 10 min or so, but so far its only …

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I have much junk file in my drive. Now how can i remove all the junk file?

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Hi Guys; Did attempt a search, but didnt find anything about the malware bytes app freezing up, did see some comments on "your computer at risk" firewall issue, but was unable to resolve it. After running Malware bytes several times and detecting one infected object, the Malware Bytes appplication "freezes" …

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Hello Before I start I'd like to show you this [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/threads/165724"]thread[/URL], which is basically the same problem as I had/have. What happens is the fans starts getting louder and louder, which means they're running faster... eventually my computer just starts slowing down and become unusable. I haven't gotten to that …

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The Ainslot.L Trojan appears to be much the same as any other at first glance; logging user activity and sending Gmail and Facebook passwords to the bad guys, downloading further malware, taking over your computer and the main payload of being a Banking Trojan stealing account login data. But Ainslot.L …

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Hi there, I've recently received notification about a virus in my laptop; ran the "highjackthis" report and would like to check if someone can assist me with the analysis of the report to make sure everything is ok: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 20:10:52, on 09/02/2012 …

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I bought a video game over a service called Steam. The game was Garry's Mod. I was installing it, it was on for about an hour before it got to half way and I was doing work and talking to people since everything was stacked at the same time. I …

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Trend Micro Releases HijackThis Source Code to sourceforge.net [url]http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trend-micro-releases-hijackthis-source-code-to-sourceforgenet-139516763.html[/url] Sourceforgenet link to open source hijackthis [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/[/url] and [url]http://hjt.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hjt/src_204/?pathrev=3[/url]

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I don't have the original system disks for the machine in question so i would like to attempt a manual recovery. If needed i can order them, but HP charges for the disks. Currently the network is disabled and Mcafee anti-virus does not appear to work correctly. WHAT HAS MY …

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hi guys, any ideas on how to remove the malware on a hidden partition? i believe the malware resides on the hidden partition. because i did a system factory reset, when i boot the laptop. There's already a word document on the load folder. (which i never created) and by …

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Hi Everyone, I was just reading a news article, when i accidentally clicked on a link to download a some adobe flash 11 plugin. Unfortunately after that, internet explorer just keeps opening to the homepage roughly every 20 to 30 seconds. I have absolutely no idea how to fix it. …

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Dear all helper In recently, I found that my computer CPU usage always 100% usage and I notice that it cause by ping.exe in the process list. When I kill the ping.exe process, my CPU usage is go down well. But after a few seconds, the ping.exe run again and …

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So i was starting up my web browser this morning, and firefox started spitting out extremely random javascript errors, which spammed up to around a dozen. I figured obviously to give my computer a virus scan. I did (with AVG free), and found 2 trojans, who have masked over service.exe. …

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Ok guys I have serious security problem here and I need your help quickly A friend of my friend in my xfire account just gave me a link to a video file He told me its a trailer I opened the link and it asked me to update my flash …

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Hello everyone, I was hoping to get some help with my computer problems that i've been experiencing lately. I have a router that i use for internet connection w/ my other desktops in my household. Recently i've had to directly connect my modem to my computer if i wanted access …

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Hi, Already many of our friends have faced the same problem which am facing right now. My taskbar changes its colour into grey and sound gets disabled.I used malwarebytes antimalware but of no use can any one help me ... reply as fast as possible.......

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I can not connect to any antivrus websites. I am trying to download Microsoft Security Essentials and I keep getting an error message that says My computer cannot connect to the microsoft server. I also tried going to the AVG site and received the same error message. I do not …

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Hi, thanks in advance to whoever can help me out here. I guess the issues with my computer are currently. 1. ping.exe using up a large chunk of the CPU, very erratic but sometimes going near 100% 2. When I open Firefox or Internet Explorer, another tab or window automatically …

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Hello, and Thank You for taking the time to read this! A couple of days ago my laptop (running Vista Service Pack 1) started to play up, mainly the internet was redirecting me to ebay or some tacky advertising. So I tried to use AVG and found it dissapeared, then …

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Hello everyone. Lately I have been downloading alot, and noticed that my computer was acting up. I downloaded AVAST antivirus to try and get rid whatever was wrong. After running it, it found and deleted many ad-ware, trojans and viruses. There was one it could not get rid of called …

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This is bugging the crap out of me, i really need some help. im pretty certain its a virus or some sort of malware, but im not that great with computers so im having some trouble. I have run Anti-malwarebytes bunches of times, and itll come up with infected files …

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hi im seeking your assistance. everytime i open my laptop Error loading otvasbpt.dll appears. please help me t fix this problem! thank you so much

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After download Spybot Search & Destroy on my computer, I couldn’t open any files on my Desktop, Control Panel to remove or deleted any software, and use the wireless internet, the message C:\WINDOW \SYSTEM32\RUNDLL32EX, pop up. What should I do to remove the message? The software on my computer is …

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Running Win XP Home, SP-3 and, without any warning, suddenly got "The file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder options panel" error message with almost everything I try to light up from Desktop or the start tower. Not …

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Hello Folks Cleaning my girlfriends mothers computer and having some difficulty. It had a fake virus scanner/phiser on it along with ping.exe that is giving me trouble. I have run trendmicro housecall along with hijackthis and malwarebytes. I also turned off windows fax as I discovered the outgoing connections were …

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I removed a virus via MSE and afterwards have lost the ability to connect to the internet. This is a windows 7 professional 32 bit laptop. Staticly i can set the ip address and dns server and can ping the DG and the DNS server. I can also ping google …

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My problems first started on my son's laptop. Backed up his game saves and such to our other pc via external drive enclosure. Now the desktop pc is infected with something. And just today while updating database/scanning with MBAM on that one, I was on MY laptop and recieved a …

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Hello Daniweb: Assisting neighbors with plugged up system 1Gig- RAM, Compac software suite. Box was shipped w/XP, has been upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Users are still on dial-up which does not work any longer, although I can interogate the modem and it answers in the hardware manager. I found …

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Hi can i ask some help with you guys,what is in my msconfig there is a list "cuqal" C:\Documents and Settings\jemz\cuqal.exe/S if i will check that box and restart my pc and when i put usb flash drive,the content of my flash drive will keep duplicating the files and the …

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Recently, I removed Windows XP Security 2012 and was left with a process called ping.exe which uses enormous amounts of CPU. I am in the process of completing the sticky guide ([url]http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/threads/134865[/url]) and am currently running scan #2 using GMER. I have ran the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, ATF-Cleaner, …

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I appearts that I have the Google Redirect malware somewhere. About 2/3 of the time,when I click on a Google result, I get redirected. This behavior happens only in MSIE; it does not happen in Chrome. I have run Super Antispyware, MS Security Essentials, and MBAM multiple times. SASW finds …

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Hi, we're not able to connect to the internet with a desktop that was recently infected. After cleaning with multiple runs of MBAM and ComboFix, PC is showing a connection and strong signal with our wireless router, but packet exchange is almost nil. All of the installed browsers (Chrome, FF, …

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Just of today my pc has suddenly been acting-up when I attempt to launch a number of exe files (applications) including the System Restore application. I receive this error message, "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set …

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ok i just got this laptop from my friend and apparently it seems to have contracted malware, particularly ping.exe? i ran a GMER scan, but i could not save a log file. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.51.2.1300 [url]www.malwarebytes.org[/url] Database version: 911122703 Windows 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421 12/27/2011 2:31:27 PM …

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