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| | I found this article from the EFF quite disturbing. What do you say about a company that would want to do this? ... Thoughts? Comments? Scathing Rebuttals?? [url]http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/steve-jobs-watching-you-apple-seeking-patent-0[/url]  |
| | 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 …  |
| | I am in need of help ping.exe keeps running and using up all of my cpu i have tried to start in safe mode and delet this item but it replaced itself upon restarting in normal mode i have ran all the scans so far malware bytes is currently running … |
| | I have followed all instructions pertaining to virus removal after experiencing that something has hacked all of our email information and is sending out virus emails to all of our contacts. It keeps saying error when i try to attach the logs you have requested. I have even tried to … |
| | So I was searching for that awesome pic of the anteater standing up saying 'f@ck you, I'm an anteater', for my wife because it is hilarious. Unfortunately, my AVG 'free' caught an issue, but it was too late. I noticed ping.exe in the task manager. Really appreciate you folks taking … Information Security apple audio client-server data-protection database-design dns flash ide microsoft-access microsoft-office microsoft-windows monitoring-software office-suite os-x pdf peer-to-peer printer sharepoint social-media storage tcp-udp video-card virus-malware web-browser web-design windows-virus  |
| | Hi, I have never posted into a forum before, and although I am very good at following step by step instructions I am not naturally techinical minded so forgive me if I am not making any sense. A few days ago my computer taskbar changed back to the old classic … |
| | Hello. I'm looking for help with what appears to be a stubborn trojan problem. I've read the sticky on how to post requests for help so hopefully I've got this right. It's regarding a PC running XP Pro. Yesterday morning I began experiencing problems such as right-click disabled, incomplete Start … |
 | With the recent announcement of an easy way to gain root access for Android phones running 2.3.4, to add to the list of similar exploits for earlier versions and 3.0 and beyond, it should come as no real surprise that the bad guys are taking advantage of the relative weakness … |
| | Here is my DDS log. I have a Malwarebytes log being scanned and generated now. . DDS (Ver_2011-08-26.01) - NTFSx86 Internet Explorer: 8.0.6001.18702 BrowserJavaVersion: 1.6.0_22 Run by Lawrie at 18:24:53 on 2011-12-14 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600.3.1252.1.1033.18.1014.200 [GMT -5:00] . AV: Microsoft Security Essentials *Enabled/Updated* {EDB4FA23-53B8-4AFA-8C5D-99752CCA7095} FW: Panda Titanium … |
| | Hello, first of all I'll start by saying this. A few months ago my world of warcraft was hacked (still unable to get it back). I sent the person who hacked my gmail a email, which at that time didn't know that he can trace my ip. About 3 month …  |
| | Hello, Over this last weekend I picked up a few different Trojans and BackDoor viruses, for a total of 5. They sat in my windows assembly folder and attacked my Trend Micro anti virus. My computer would lock up during a scan so I would have to restart. I started … |
| | For the past month I have had google links redirecting me to other sitess. It will do this for about weeks, until it eventually causes my computer to have tons of errors, and things disappear, making the reboot it, go into safemode, and select a past restore date. After I … |
| | I own a Gateway FX 7805. It originally installed Vista with a recovery partition. As a student I purchased from my school, a Windows 7 Ultimate installation disc. I restored back to factory default settings with the Gateway Recovery Management menu Recover(tab)_Restore System to Factory Default. Then I installed Windows …  |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]21691[/ATTACH]“Your PC may be infected” says Google, which has taken the unusual step of [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/using-data-to-protect-people-from.html"]warning users[/URL] that a couple of million or so of them have most likely been taken in by a fake AV scam. According to a post on the official Google blog by security engineer Damian Menscher, …  |
| | Hi. I am having some trouble with my computer. Here is a quick review of issues...About a month ago my McAfee AV kept getting turned off. I could not figure out what was wrong. Nothing was found on any scans. I removed McAfee and got AVG free edition. It stopped … |
| | Hey guys there is some kind of greek virus named vvk that says any website I visit is dangerous and keeps on asking me to give private information saying I have 56 infections. I can't follow any of the readme first guidlines because the virus appears in safe mode also … |
| | Dear community, On a quite regular basis, the screen of one of the laptops I use [COLOR="red"]blinks for a fraction of a second[/COLOR]. It does it like with some screen capture softwares when they are triggered. Besides, I'm observing from time to time some strange behaviour: [COLOR="red"]Command windows that open … |
| | Ping.exe is grabbing so much CPU time that I max out at 100% CPU. When I stop the process tree, ping.exe keeps coming back. Your help will be most appreciated. ATF Cleaner didn't run - got "Not Responding" in Task Manager. Got the following GMER pop-up: "Warning GMER has found … |
| | Ok, I seem to have quite a pickle here. About a week ago I started getting google redirects. I have done quite a bit of troubleshooting since, and this is everything I know: -Google redirects on all browsers (firefox, IE, and Chrome- which I installed after the trouble started in … |
| | Hi, Yesterday my computer became infected with the malware "XP Antivirus 2012". Among the usual malware activities, it also disabled my internet access. I cleaned it up to the best of my knowledge, and it seems that my computer is now clean, but I can't access my internet anymore! Whenever … |
| | Seem to have a Malware infection. System started to not respond and lockup on 11/28. Ran virus scans w/ Zone Alarm and MBAM and found 2 diff viruses @ 2 diff times. Backdoor.Bredavi and Trojan-spy.html.fraud.gen Would lock up after detecting files so not certain if they were actually ever removed. … |
| | HELP!!!I am running Windows 7 using the latest IE. Somehow this morning I got a nasty virus of 'System Fix' I ended up having to use Rkill to disable it and malwarebytes' to take it off. I thought that my computer was back to normal afterwards, but no! Shortly after … |
 | [URL="http://www.intego.com"]Intego[/URL] [URL="http://www.intego.com/news/hellrts-backdoor-can-allow-malicious-remote-users-to-control-macs.asp"]announced[/URL] today that there is an actual virus threat to the invincible [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Mac[/URL]: HellRTS.D Backdoor. Yep, that's right, a Mac virus just waiting to take control of your iThis and iThat. It would have been funnier if the virus had a better name, but hey, virus writers aren't necessarily … |
| | Hello All Trying to help my cousin out with his Laptop. It keeps crashing every 15 mins or so and then going to the Blue Screen. To me it sounds like there has been some sort of change in drivers on the system but thought I had better check it … |
 | Thank you kindly for any assistance. After countless Google searches for help or info and nothing found I surrender to anyone who may help please. Ongoing for several months: Dual Monitor system - simultaneously both monitors randomly flash/blink (looks similar to a screen shot flash). This happens at system start … |
| | hello, i've had this problem for over a week now, and i tried numerous fixes (virus scan, delete temp folder, reset router and modem...) but i can't seem to fix it, help me! so about a week ago, for some reason my internet stopped working, it's quite weird. for every … |
| | Last night my computer got infected with the Windows Fix Virus. The link below provides pretty much an exact description of what has been going on with my computer. [URL="http://reimagerepairreview.com/2011/07/11/remove-windows-7-fix-virus-desktop-is-empty-missing-shortcuts-icons-on-start-menu/"] http://reimagerepairreview.com/2011/07/11/remove-windows-7-fix-virus-desktop-is-empty-missing-shortcuts-icons-on-start-menu/[/URL] I immediately installed and ran Malwarebytes from a USB drive, but it had no effect. I was then able … |
| | Whenever I connect the internet directly to my computer, something kicks in, turning my taskbar into the old Windows color and knocking out my Windows Audio. This only happened today, as far as I know; I have been using our router ever since the internet came. I hope somebody walks … |
| | Using newly registered domains with a very short lifespan to host malware websites is so last year. It would appear that these days such things are far more likely to be hosted on much older compromised web sites instead. Could this be down to a decline in domain tasting? The … |
| | Hi all, I'm using my neighbors computers in hopes someone can help me fix my own ... not sure why or how it's happened, but my computer has been completely taken over I think. I've never seen one so aggressive. I'm unable to connect to the internet, and several programs … |
| | My computer has recently been bogged down by what was at first a virus, and then a series of adware/malware programs that were (and some still are) running. I'm still having a huge delay in booting/shutting down the system. Unless I set priorities to my programs (Firefox, Explorer etc.) they … |
| | I use firefox and haven't used IE since I got my computer and downloaded Firefox on to it. Lately IE has been randomly opening multiple windows with multiple tabs in them. I've run Malwarebytes twice and it hasn't come up with anything and I even put my computer in safe … |
| | i'm new to this kind of community.. so i don't know what to do.. i've been trying for months now. i'm having the same problem.. sometimes.. my taskbar changes to classic then you cannot connect to the internet and the sound is disabled. if i restart it.. it goes back … |
| | Please help, something is wrong. I've been running Malwarebytes and AVG daily but something still seems wrong. My taskbar is beige as I type this and sometimes my speakers stop working. I don't have the malwarebytes log because I ran it before coming to this forum. Also when I ran … |
| | Think about an antivirus software with an 1-pc license. After installation , while the user tries to upgrade it, the software recognizes that the pc rying to upgrade the antivirus is the one that bought the license so that the software when installed on another pc with the same serial … |
 | Hey folks. We're working on some DaniWeb T-shirts and we'd like your input. The design of the shirts is as follows. Black T-shirt with a random funny saying on the front and the <DANIWEB> logo on the back (white ink). We're looking for some quotes. Think funny, geek, tech, hacker, …  |
| | hey guys, I play need for speed world and yesterday my brother was using my computer and when I play games it lags. Im sure its a virus because when I woke up this morning there were ads on my screen. Here are the logs you requested. GMER does not … |
 | Hello; I need help with an annoying virus or malware. My search results display correctly, but clicking on any of the urls in the results takes to me usually to a "How To" page or a list of sales sites related back to the searched topic. To get anywhere i've … |
| | I did find another thread on this topic, but it didn't fully fit my issue. I would appreciate any help in resolving this issue, which is as follows: I have McAfee Virus Plus and I suddenly began to get notifications from the program that there was no virus protection. When … |
 | Guys i'm using Microsoft Security Essentials as my Anti-virus software in Windows 7.It worked properly.But now from 2-3 days,when i log-in to windows it shows,my computer is unprotected and run a scan.But i have scheduled my scan on every sunday.Not daily.So i did a quick scan and then it's ok.But … |
| | Problem - Main - Clicking any Google Search result, results in redirect to random sites - NOT the site of the search result - search function not usable Secondary - computer has slowed to less than a crawl plus - recently, on boot-up, Avast reports that Microsoft Realplayer.exe is suspect … Information Security android android-development apple audio chrome-os client-server data-protection digital-publishing dns flash http-protocol ide microsoft-access microsoft-office microsoft-windows multimedia office-suite os-x pdf peer-to-peer printer publishing seo storage tcp-udp user-interface virus-malware visual-basic web-browser webcam windows-virus |
 | hi guys, recently one of our workstation was hit by a virus. I had used malware bytes, avira and microsoft security essentials to remove the trojan virus. But now the pc is working fine except that when the user visit those sites such as bank websites or other sites which … |
| | I'm having some issues and was hoping someone may be able to assist. When booting up I receive a message that the disk needs to be checked however it then indicates that autocheck cannot check the disk due to a configuration error from a software upgrade. Windows then proceeds to …  |
| | Hello, A couple of days ago I was using Pandora and it suddenly said that my plugin had stopped working, Firefox froze, and my mouse (laptop) stopped working. I found that somehow the mouse had been turned off. The next day I tried using Pandora again, and once again the … |
| | I just noticed yesterday that I did not have McAfee Security Center installed any more. (beat myself up enough, thanks, but feel free to express shock and dismay.) When I looked on the pc yesterday morning, there was only a McAfee scan app in c:\program files\mcafee. I have had McAfee … |
| | my internet explorer randomly pops up often with inapporiate websites and sometimes blank. i recently downloaded a file and since after that my IE pops up randomly and often! is this a virus? please help me! :( i also ran a scan with malware anti malware software and it showed … |
| | Hi I already posted this in the XP forums but I really need help for this bit of malware I'm stuck with the New Folder.exe virus and I tried following the steps [URL="http://amiworks.co.in/talk/how-to-remove-new-folderexe-or-regsvrexr-or-autoruninf-virus/"]here[/URL] and ended up screwing up some key system files(step 3 to be precise) and now I cannot … |
| | have Windows XP Service Pack 3 I use Firefox. I can't get rid of Fake Windows Security popup every time that I turn the computer on. I also have a Windows Security shield with an "X" on it on my task bar. Also when I search on google for example … |
| | [ATTACH=right]21447[/ATTACH]Penetration testing by the US Department of Homeland Security which involved dropping USB thumb drives and various data discs around the car parks of government agency buildings has revealed a not-so-shocking truth: just like most folk, government workers allow curiosity to trump security when faced with the opportunity to have … |
| | Let the anti-apple rant begin!!!! <rant> I hate Macs and i hate mac users too. I have always hated them for all my life. When try (and fail because im blinded by its stupid white and silver shinyness) to sit down to use a Mac, the first thing into my …  |
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