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hi over the past week i every time i use the internet i just get redirected to random search engions/web pages i have tried a few things but nothink seems to work as it is still happening any help would be greatly appreciated thx also i am useing windows vista.

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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 …

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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: …

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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 …

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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 …

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hi guys, i need antivirus which doesnt waste memory and cpu threads so much. i have tried avast pro : says every file contain virus/trojan nod32 pro : doesnt not scan inside zip-rar files, symantech antivirus corporate server : scan files catch viruses and trojans well but not good with …

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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?

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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 …

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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:

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If a U.S. government agency were to infect a PC with a virus, would it be possible to detect it with personal anti-virus software? If so, what's the best bet software wise?

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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 …

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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 …

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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,

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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.

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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 …

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hi all hope someone can help. my girlfriend has a toshiba satellite pro the other day she desided to tell me her avg ran out and was not protected so i installed a new 2011 avg unfortunatly she got a virus called windows scan i tried everything poss to get …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Hello, I just assembled a new computer about a month ago and now I'm dealing with a small problem. a plug in called 'Click Potato lite' installed itself on my computer(or else it did when I installed xvid codecs perhaps). I ran Mbam and my normal anti virus(avast), mbam found …

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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 …

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My laptop was recently infected by HDD Doctor. It will not let me connect to the internet so I'm not able to download any antivirus programs to get rid of it. I've tried rebooting the computer in Safe Mode but HDD Doctor program still pops up and will not let …

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I downloaded Spyware Cease and then found my p.c. home page was bombarded with numerous simultaneous Bing homepages (which I did not want) and my search window , which I had set to Google, sent me to all kind of sites I did not want. After trying all sorts of …

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Hello Someone sent me a .scr file and I accepted it and ran it. It started to run, and it opened the Microsoft Photo Editor program, but then it stopped, and the .scr file was gone Now, EVERYTHING is disabled by the administrator. I need help, I think someone is …

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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 …

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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 …

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I've been having a bsod problem on my gateway laptop as of yet i have only been able to boot to safe mode GMER 1.0.15.15530 - [url]http://www.gmer.net[/url] Rootkit quick scan 2011-01-12 03:28:13 Windows 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Harddisk0\DR0 -> \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP1T0L0-2 WDC_WD800BEVS-22RST0 rev.04.01G04 Running: jid6u70i.exe; Driver: C:\Users\owner\AppData\Local\Temp\kglcapow.sys ---- Devices - GMER …

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AOL 9.5, VISTA ISSUES: On boot up I get a small blank popup box (no error message) that is tied into AOL. This prevents my welcome screen from loading and any hotlinks etc via AOL pages/content, email etc. I can access email to read and write but that's it. Here's …

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Would someone review my log from the Hijackthis program and see what I need to remove? Thanks in advance. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 2:42:47 PM, on 1/16/2011 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0013) Boot mode: Safe mode with network support …

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[B]My laptop is an Hp Paviliondv6233se and just recently i received a computer virus it is called (MS) antivirus. I tried to get rid of it by deleting some files in my windows registry but i gave up, then i downloaded malware bytes, and it deleted some files, but the …

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well I followed the steps before posting and it seemed to solve the problem but here is the logs anyway: GMER 1.0.15.15530 - [url]http://www.gmer.net[/url] Rootkit quick scan 2011-01-15 13:46:00 Windows 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Harddisk0\DR0 -> \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP2T0L0-4 TOSHIBA_MK1637GSX rev.DL032C Running: xrsodq7v.exe; Driver: C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\uwldrpob.sys ---- Devices - GMER 1.0.15 ---- AttachedDevice …

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I am having a problem installing the driver for Windows 7 from Mustek for my scanner. Hardware and Software I Use Mustek ScanExpress A3 USB 1200 Pro Large Format Scanner Windows 7 Pro 64bit HP Pavilion Elite e9280t PC i7 HP Photosmart Premium Fax AIO C309a - Wireless I downloaded …

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So I don't know what this is but I'm assuming it's not good. It's a program that appears on my computer that is called Form1 on my task bar, if I click it, it"pops up" but the window is invisible, I can right click the taskbar thing and close it …

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I have a computer with a hard disk that contains two partitions. One partitition was FAT32( C drive) on which windows 98 was installed and the other partition was NTFS on which windows xp was installed. Things were working fine until windows 98 was affected with a virus. After removing …

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I seem to have some kind of malware. Gmer reports: GMER 1.0.15.15530 - [url]http://www.gmer.net[/url] Rootkit quick scan 2011-01-17 11:05:21 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Harddisk0\DR0 -> \Device\Ide\IdePort0 WDC_WD1600BB-00DWA0 rev.15.05R15 Running: gmer.exe; Driver: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\pgldrkob.sys ---- Disk sectors - GMER 1.0.15 ---- Disk \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 sector 08: rootkit-like behavior; Disk \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 sector 62: …

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I am using a sony VAIO laptop [model#PCG-7M1L] and there is a Hacktool.Rootkit virus that is bothering me. Can anyone help me out? Here is my last HijackThis logfile. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:19:47 PM, on 5/31/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet …

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Hello, For the last couple months I've been having an issue where once in a while I'll be browsing, and when I click on a link, a second instance of Firefox will open up to an ad site. Then just yesterday I noticed another issue where clicking a google result …

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Hello all, I have a strange situation going on: First, I cannot reboot the computer. Once rebooted the computer signs off and never comes on. Second, if I unplug the computer or turn it off, when I start it up, the monitor does not come on - I have to …

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:( Can someone please help me? Last night my computer shut down for no apparent reason and when i started it up again it said that had recovered from a serious error. I have a feeling i may have some nasties on board! My computer restarted and took me to …

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I'm having this problem I'm sure many people have had before me, but i haven't been able to get rid of it. Not sure if this is the same thing, but my computer also gets the error "the service cannot accept control messages at this time." here's my hijackthis log: …

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Hello, I have been using AVG for some time now and the problem I have with it I can not disable or turn it off to install software. I have to unistall AVG then I can install the program. Anyone know of a Viruses program that can be disable or …

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I have a Windows 2000 professional PC here that cannot access the internet. It is a friends PC that about 2 months ago he called me and said he couldn't access the net with IE6. I got him to install Mozilla firefox and he was back in action up until …

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I thought I had gotten rid of a fake antivirus program that had somehow got on my computer through pop ups, but it seems there is still some sort of virus on it. If anyone can help me get rid of this, I would greatly appreciate it! I'm running Windows …

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I am fairly certain that my brother, who used my computer two weekends ago downloaded a virulent virus on my computer. For starters I have ran CCleaner. I have also restored my computer to an earlier time. However, when I go to log into facebook it has kept a record …

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Yesterday mom mom got a nasty that is not allowing her to access anti-virus sites for updates or downloads. I found some mirror sites and stuff, and ended up getting Malwarebytes, Spybot, the Stubware and HJT. I will post the HJT log here in a second, IVe tried all kinds …

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Friend dropped this off for a helping hand. Computer after clean ups is still very sluggish but it seems pop ups and IE registry pop up(virus i assume) have stopped. Mba-m log: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.50.1.1100 [url]www.malwarebytes.org[/url] Database version: 5481 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 1/7/2011 8:06:19 PM …

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Hi, I'm getting a BSOD when I try to boot into Safe Mode :/ The reason I've been trying to boot into Safe Mode is because I want to delete and replace some fonts with a newer version of them, and I can't do so in normal Windows because my …

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So I have Vista Ultimate running on my HP Pavilion Notebook which I know has multiple problems on it. I have run Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool and ATF Cleaner, and then a GMER scan and a Hijack This. I am trying to better understand what you look for …

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I've been getting IE popups in firefox and my computer has been running incredibly slow. I tried to do a google search in order to find a solution to the problem but it seems like it's a personalized problem that doesn't have one set solution. I downloaded and ran hijackthis …

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Have you ever thought about measuring the Internet in terms if malware per minute? Me neither, but someone has and it makes for uncomfortable reading if you are a Microsoft Windows user. [attach]17145[/attach]How fast is the Internet? It depends on the metric being used, of course, but one new report …

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