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IT Prof. please help me..! I have encountered a problem regarding my ANTI-VIRUS... My Anti-virus is "AVIRA", and it keeps detecting a Virus that is said to be a "BACKDOOR"... It infected the explorer.exe. Whenever I open any folder, it will appear...And also if I will Move it to quarantine, …

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Hello, I would appreciate some help on this. I'm quite the virus noob so my luck has been limited. My problems started four days ago when I got the wmpscfgs.exe virus, which I think I've managed to remove since. At the same time also, I started getting these errors which …

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Hello all, I hope all is well! Firefox will load my homepage without a problem but when I click on a link it just will not load. Now this forces me to use IE which I do not like. I didn't change any settings on the firewall or AV so …

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can anyone help on getting rid of xp internet security 2010 virus or whatever it is. ive done a bit of research on it and it seems its going around to everyone and ive come up with installing MBAM and running that and removeing it that way but it didnt …

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Hi everyone, Very frustrating for me since I use Norton, I keep my system updated from Microsoft, and I have both AdAware and Malwarebytes on my system, I don't fileshare or go to gaming sites. My IE is now unusable. It immediately gives me popups or shuts it down without …

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Hi, Im not sure what I have to be honest...I was infected with a virus a few weeks ago and thought I had it cleaned up...but Im running so slow...and at times I completely crash and I just cant pinpoint the problem.....could somebody check my logs for me...I would truly …

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:o Hello everyone, Um , dont know whats happening. Could some one please help, thanks in advance. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:00:05, on 19/10/2005 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WIN2K\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Kerio\Personal Firewall 4\kpf4gui.exe C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe …

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Hello, my PC has recently been a victim of reader_s.exe...I've reformatted my PC several times and it still popped up. However with the last reformat, things seem to be going fine, but I have a feeling reader_s.exe will pop up again. Here is my HJT log, is anything wrong? My …

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I'm trying to help a friend who has apparently picked up a virus. He didn't have anti-virus software, so when he started noticing problems he bought Norton. By then it was too late; Norton will not install. I tried running Microsoft's safety scanner, but the installation just hung. I couldn't …

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I believe I have got 'bad' virus on my toshiba portege m400, (i.e. not easy to get rid off) from a download. After which my scanning facilities in my antivirus software, Norman were disabled. I have changed virus software to Kaspersky Antivirus but now it will not update properly, the …

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Hi guys, I've searched my @ss off for a solution but not even google has something on this. (two or three useless pages) One of our customers rebooted their machine and all of a sudden their usernames at the logon screen is gone, and instead there is three new ones …

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So, i've had this malware for a week or so, I ran malware bytes several times and each time its finished, the spyware kools down for about 2 days before starting up again. The spyware isn't perticularly annoying but it plays a random AUDIO ad with NO window shown (pops …

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Hey I've been having this problem of my browser redirecting randomly after a search on google and yahoo. It would even pop out an internet explorer window when I have nothing runing or clicked. This all started after picking up a XP Guardian Pro or so type of fake anti-spyware …

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Last day I have formated my computer and installed a fresh copy of windows XP SP1. Then I tried to install MS Office 2007. It shows that it need SP2 or later. So I deceided to download SP2 from microsoft site which is 266 MB huge. I have started at …

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IS this possible? I hit one of those weird sites by accident...the ones that have weird symbols in the link or whatever... Im on my own contact list, so when I Hit it I instantly got an IM from myself saying to click some link for a free ipad or …

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Hi, I recently got a virus that was some rogue trojan. I used malwarebytes and removed it. But the virus had some effect where I couldn't edit the registry even after i deleted the malware. So i just used one of my restore points and it worked fine. But I …

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Hi everyone, this is my first time posting and I been surfing through the internet for days and weeks but found no solution to my problem. I'm currently using window 7 and First is that my IE 8.0 is not working meaning it just cannot find any webpages but my …

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I recently got the Internet Security 2010 Virus and I thought i completely removed it. I got rid of the symptoms of it and it stopped popping up on my screen but since i removed it my computer has been constantly freezing, especially while using the internet. The screen will …

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same problem as the person who ran malware for virus antivirus 2010. After running I can't acces internet now.

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Error 1084. Offer some sollution by mail. Shoul I allow You the remote assistance?

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A week ago my dad's desktop was blank. I fixed it by doing a system restore. Today his desk top was blank again. I tried to do a system restore to an earlier date that didn't work so I tried another date. Still nothing. So i undid the last restore, …

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I think I may have a virus. I cannot open anything from my desktop. I get an error of "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder options control panel". Everything looks good in folder options. I redownloaded …

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Hi, my housemate and I share the same laptop, and he clicked on one of those fake notications on facebook saying someone likes or has commmented on your picture. We've both changed our passwords on most things, and I ran a full scan with kaspersky which picked up this (copied …

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Heya guys, Recently, my computer was infected by a trojan, and using a forum topic found on another forum, I seemed to have removed it, using the safemode+smitfraudfix+ewido spyware remover combo. However, I still receive some pop ups, some slowing in running and sometimes, explorer won't load when I click …

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I downloaded hijackthis and ran a scan. Can you please review and tell me what files, if any, are bad and need to be removed. Here is a copy of the scan: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:15:29 PM, on 3/7/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT …

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On the 18th I ran across some malware via a pop-up. I had zonealarm firewall and anti-virus and malwarebytes on my system but was worried that I might have been infected so I did a scan with malwarebytes and it found a malware.trace file called avdrn.dat which it said it …

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I see SpywareGuard 2.2 touted as a good free real-time antimalware app that makes a great compliment to SpywareBlaster. But can anyone confirm that for me, and that it's definitely a different app than Spyware Guard 2008 & 2009? It had better be, because the latter is said to actually …

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i have a number of issues with my operating system at the moment; browser windows opening by themselves, slow operation, programs not opening and inability to delete/open some files. I have tried a malware scanner and have used CCleaner but nothing has helped. I downloaded and installed HiJack This but …

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my browser is taking me to the places where I do not want to go. Someone please help me check my hijack this log. Thanks Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:53:15 PM, on 3/5/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot …

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As soon as i boot the computer, theres about three different applications that come up on their own saying that y computer needs help. Then tries to force me to buy "windows XP internet security". i tried to install malwarebytes, but it wouldnt let me. i did get the hijack …

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After succesfully removing my task manager lock and my windows desktop lock with regedit im still troubled with a fake pop-up that comes back every few momets. Really annoying. I read up on some threads and downloaded AVG along with hijackthis. Here is my log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis …

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Dear members, Reccently I download files thru' P2P using torrent and unfortunately my system got infected with Win32/Polip virus. Many of the important files like notepad.exe, mspaint.exe, iexplorer.exe etc. got infected and im unable to access these applications. Internet connection also fails. I tried scanning with NOD 32 and then …

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Hey..it's me southern again...my computer is running great thanks to all your help, I maintain it regularly, and so far no problems..However my dads computer had a nervous breakdown, and we can't figure out what happened...he's running Vista, the computer shut down and would not boot back up, he had …

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Will the instructions you provided earlier work on the XP version of the "XP Antispyware 2010" malware, [B]crunchie[/B]? I'm helping a family member who got hit with basically the same malware. I followed your instructions and after the two scans and got the following MBAM and and OTL logs: [B]MBAM[/B] …

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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit: search results window continously keeps popping for no reason, i have wiped the hdd clean and reinstalled win7 and ran trend micro house call installed symantec antivirus corp ed and did a mbr ix and i am still having the same problem. At first i …

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Hello, my first post, hopefully first of many. What bought me to this site was google, this site seems to help alot of people with virus problems, so, I had no where else to go really, google didnt really help much. Mainly because I dont know what I have. I …

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Hi I have been having problems with antivirus software (and viruses) since i removed Norton from my computer a while ago. Although I can download other antivirus software, and have tried a few, I can't seem to update any of the software on my computer. I realise it is probably …

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Hey guys, I got a problem, I'll just start of by saying, This might sound stupid cause no-one i know has ever heard of any thing like this. Well 1= everytime i plug in a USB to my PC, it installs or loads a hidden .exe file in there, And …

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Hi everyone, Seems I've picked up something along the way (this is a shared computer, so not sure where) that takes links I click on and redirects them to random search pages. I have downloaded and ran numerous programs in safe mode (which did catch some other things and even …

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i have kind of the same problem. windows xp hangs randomly. the screen freezes but mouse pointer is still responsive. fan still runs but it seems like hard drive turns off. it is like when computer goes to standby mode but fan and screen are on. i booted windows in …

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Hey all, Have a couple of problems that I hope someone can help me with. Got the infamous Redirect problem, where you search google, click on one of the results, and it goes somewhere else totally. I have to click back to google and click on the link again to …

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Hi! This is my first post here. I have this problem, IE7 opens automatically showing ads and sites saying "You've won...". I also have other web browsers- mozilla, safari and google chrome. I tried to open IE7. It opens then closes right away. Then I can't open mozilla. Nothing happens …

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Can someone please help me with the viruses I have on my comnputer. I have tried to change the permissions on them but nothing works, I cannot delete them or anything. I recently tried to download another anti-spyware and root syste, but it fro\e my computer and went to a …

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Hello, All, Thanks for the help in advance. My husband's computer had attracted a number of viruses - Virtumonde, Zedo, etc. - that I've since removed. However, yesterday, a "sever busy" pop-up window started appearing, and windows would freeze after about 3 minutes of normal operation. At that point, no …

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I recently had trouble with the avsoft malware and would appreciate it if someone could look at my logs and tell me if I need to remove anything. I have run malwarebytes 4 times and have found something each time. I have posted my most recent logs from mbytes and …

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I can't goto any sites. My homepage loads, then I can go maybe to more pages before IE takes me to about:blank. It says the site is blocked, and wants me to goto another site and get their spyware. here is my hijack log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 …

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The same error as in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread187942.html"][B]this thread[/B][/URL] (except that the "word" with @’s is much longer) popped up for me just now and your post is the only occurrence containing this string found by Google. I am scared to see that your post is this old and had no answers... …

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Hi guys, Please help me on this! i recently gave my laptop to someone for some work and wen it came back, there's this thing called security anti-virus running on it. i don't know how it came about but it's some strong Troja horse, i think. It has taken control …

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Please help! My son has a Trojan virus on his computer. It WILL NOT allow connection to the internet. I don't know what to do. This trojan keeps popping up called the'32.dripper' and it's requesting payment in order to remove it. It will not allow me to pull up the …

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According to figures revealed with the publication of the [URL="http://www.ibm.com/security/xforce"]IBM X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report[/URL], not only do web application vulnerabilities remain the largest category of security disclosure for the last year but, worryingly when you consider that the number of such vulnerabilities found by organisations has not decreased …

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