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| | Hi I am new to the forum and I would like some help in deciding what to remove from my Hijackthis report. Please advise Regards Calvinicus  |
| | I must have caught it a little after midnight PST on the 29th, but it didn't manifest itself until I used the computer again the afternoon of the 30th. I was getting a whole bunch of blue screens and was able to get into Windows only once after having it … |
| | Hey folks. After a recent system scan using Avast (fully updated) I got a message saying that this file could not be scanned because it is a 'decompression bomb': C:\Program Files\Nero 7\Nero BackItUp\BackItUp_ImageTool\root.img\root.img I tried deleting/moving the file (in Avast) but it would not allow me to do this and …  |
| | smart virus eliminator is screwing up my system...need help...below is hijack this log...thanks for any help Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:29:58 PM, on 8/21/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP3 (6.00.2900.5512) 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 … |
| | According to the latest [URL="http://www.messagelabs.com/mlireport/MLIReport_2009.07_July_FINAL.pdf"]MessageLabs Intelligence Report[/URL] from Symantec, things are looking good as web malware writers have taken a sabbatical. Unfortunately the spammers have gone multi-lingual in a lazy-ass automated kind of a way with great effect. Spam levels have, say Symantec, stayed at their highest level for two … |
| | Scared that students taking an exam might cheat, teachers at the posh Harrow School in England took the unusual step of banning them from using the Internet and re-routing their email so it could be read by the headmaster. The irony of the exam being concerned with Nazi foreign policy … |
| | Well this is really an Eye popping problem that you may have on an unprotected computer. Here is just the example on what I'm trying to say here is the link [url]http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=6739393&page=1[/url]. Just a simple Pop adds almost ruined this teacher's life. So what if this happens. Picture this out … |
 | If you are a Windows user and have not installed the [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx"]MS08-067 patch[/URL] from last October, then perhaps you had better pull your finger out. Of course, it could well be too late, and you could well be one of the nine million or so users who have already fallen …  |
| | The United States holds many titles, some of them causes for joy while others are reason for shame. The latter category has long included 'King of Spam' being the country from which the majority of the spam on the planet originates. However, thanks to the [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2008/11/20/spammers-are-in-a-world-of-hurt/"]closure of just one spam … |
| | What a difference a day makes. In the 12 hours following the take down of McColo Corp, a web hosting service that stands accused of being responsible for enabling as much as 75 percent of the world's email spam, the volume of said junk mail recorded by specialists at MessageLabs … |
| | We all knew it was going to happen, and that there was nothing we could do to stop it. In fact, it was only a matter of time until the polls had closed and Barack Obama had officially become the President-elect of the United States of America. It is not … |
 | This is just what we needed to make us comfortable as the recession (I think we can stop calling it the credit crunch as we've been doing in the UK) starts to bite uncomfortably. Mobile devices are becoming vulnerable to malware attacks. It must be true, I've read it on … |
| | I was privileged to attend the 5th [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com/"]Kaspersky[/URL] Lab forum, held in the city of London, yesterday. It was actually a Cybercrime Forum (I have no idea if the other forums were as well, as this was my first), and so the main focus was – yeah, you guessed it … |
| | Now I'm not usually one who advocates the use of spyware of any sort. As a parent myself, I like to think that trust works better than software when it comes to controlling access to questionable content online. However, in the case of the British parents who spied on their …  |
| | According to [URL="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/09/02/sex-spyware"]Sophos[/URL] it seems that cyber-tension between North and South Korea is increasing of late. Not least thanks to allegations from the South that officers of the military command and control centre have been targeted by the North in a spyware attack on the orders of the infamous electronic … |
| | Move over phishing - it looks as though there's a new form of malware on the block. Called phlashing it was demonstrated in London today according to news site [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/21/phlashing/"]The Register[/URL]. It works by abusing the firmware update utilties of systems that have them, which is going to be just … |
| | According to [URL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/gta_spyware_scam/"]The Register[/URL] gamers who are desperate to get hold of the latest entry in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, and let's face it that has to be just about every hardcore gamer who did not get a copy today, are the latest target of drive-by spyware scammers. Spam …  |
 | What is Malware? Malware, is short for [B]MALicious softWARE[/B] and is a term used to broadly classify a form of software which is installed in a computer system mostly without the owners permission with malicious intentions. It includes Trojans, viruses, key loggers, malicious active content, rogue programs and diallers among … |
| | Controversial media company and alleged spreader of adware Zango, formerly 180solutions, has been forced to back down from its legal attempts to get both Kaspersky Lab and PC Tools to reclassify its applications as non-threatening and prevent security software from blocking them. Kaspersky Lab [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=207575556"]reports[/URL] that the US District Court … |
| | As if Microsoft did not have enough on its security plate, what with the launch of Vista followed by the chorus of ‘it is not quite as secure as you would have us believe is it’ from the worlds media, things only go from bad to worse for the Seattle …  |
| | The bad news for the US is that it is now responsible for more than a fifth of the world’s spam. That is 21.6 percent if you prefer, although whichever way you say it there is no escaping the nasty smell it leaves behind. The team of experts at IT … |
 | I was in a pub in Manchester recently for my friend Chris's leaving do (he's got a job in Spain :p ). Somehow a brief discussion about Mac OS X got started (yes, OK I started it). Most people I've met who've used it seem to think it's great because: … |
| | Earlier this year [URL="http://www.mcafee.com"]McAfee [/URL]sponsored a rather interesting survey of search engine safety. Safety, that is, from the ‘how safe are the links they deliver and you click’ angle. Now, for the longest time, I have harbored a passing suspicion that the dodgiest links you can follow from any search … |
| | My browser is being redirected to random sites when I click on search engine results. I can type the URL manually and get what I am looking for (if the entire URL is shown). I have tried to find and remove it but it keeps coming back and depending on … |
| | Hi there - I am having the exact same problems as Sisaly is - I cannot run the programs on my computer, google search is hijacked. I have MBAM installed - I cannot run it at all. It will , however, run from setup file but once the scan starts …  |
| | First off, I've read Kevin's thread and the others. I have followed all those instructions yet mbam stops after 25 seconds. I'm running Windows XP Compaq laptop. I've tried command prompt for mbam also, I get access denied. I've killed svchasts.exe through tsmgr and admin tools. Renamed Windows Police Pro … |
| | My Computer is killing me! its full of spyware and viruses! First of all I cant connect to the internet at all. (Im writing this from another computer) It always sais local only. I know it not a problem with my router because I have tried connecting to other networks … |
| | Long story short, i somehow managed to get the windows police pro virus, probably from visiting some website(I haven't downloaded anything recently) Here is where it gets problematic: I can only run internet explorer, can't run command prompt, (I can run command.com out of the run menu though), I cant … |
| | Hello All, I am having similar problems to the recently solved thread of Kevin's. I have been using my PC at home and seemed to work great except for it being a little slow. I moved back to school yesterday set up my PC, hooked up to the internet started … |
| | I had read all the threads regarding this nasty and I have made some progress but now I am stuck. I have a HP Pavilion 775y desktop, 2 megs ram I am running windows XP Earlier today I used system restore by using command.com which allowed me to access the … |
| | Everything I try to run pops up a black DOS window first points to ntvdm.exe, then quickly changes to desot.exe, displays a message in the window "Program too big to fit in memory", then quickly closes. The program never launches, not directly or from a desktop shortcut. I can log … |
| | I am having the same problem and can't run anything. Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage ========================= ====== ================ ======== ============ System Idle Process 0 Console 0 28 K System 4 Console 0 244 K smss.exe 532 Console 0 420 K csrss.exe 604 Console 0 4,564 K winlogon.exe … |
| | I'm lost. Everytime I run ad aware/spybot it keeps deleting my internet connection. I do not know what is going on. It is happening on my computer and also on my fiance's computer. Does anyone know how I can fix this or what is going on. Thank you so much … |
| | I have a virus that hasn't allowed me to use my computers ineternet for the past few days. It also prevents me from accessing my system files or folders, such as "View System Information". My computer is basically a brick at this moment. Every time I try to access one … |
 | On a friend's computer, HJT scan turned up windows\system32\ctfmon.exe McAfee scan shows no viruses. But at sysinfo.org, it lists ctfmon as a possible trojan. The file could be a legitimate Office XP file, but I'm fairly certain he has Office 97. Any ideas about how to tell if the file … |
| | Various sites including Microsoft, TrendMicro and other type of sites that might be helpful seem unavailable while most normal sites are easily accessible. Here is my hijackthis log: [CODE]Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 6:42:45 PM, on 8/11/2009 Platform: Windows 2003 SP2 (WinNT 5.02.3790) MSIE: Internet Explorer … |
| | I keep getting page load error and jar file not found when trying to open web pages. If i refresh the browser enough the page will finally load. I am getting this on the computer I use all the time and also on one that gets used maybe one a … |
| | hey friends i got this blue screen error of death jst at the start of windows xp media center loading---stop:0x0000007e (0xc0000005,0xf887018e,0xf8918748,0xf8918444)..my hp pavilion dv2000 had been affected by many blue errors which were cured bt can sum1 help me through dis plzzzzz..panda av 2008 detected many spyware on my pc … |
| | Here is a link that was sent to me today through Windows Live messenger from someone I do know and it had multiple links all the same. But they dont even know it come from there machine. haha, hot PICS?? SNIP I changed my email address to youremail. If you … |
| | There is a virus called "flashy.exe" spreading in my company . that virus is always quick spreading from memory stick. on the infected memory stick, all real folders are hidden. it make all read folder to .exe with their respective folder names and all icons are like normal folder. and … |
| | Just wanted to post where/how I figured out my gf got this on her computer. After stopping the svchasts.exe and windows police pro processes in task manager; I used file assassin to delete all of the files in the program folder. I then restarted the computer, which it popped up … |
 | I always install antivirus on my computer. At least one. I do not use two antivirus at a time. Just one. Antivirus makes my computer slow. May someone suggest an antivirus that will not slows down my computers performance. |
| | Hello! Please help me... I cannot run AVG (8.0) antivirus which worked perfectly until some days ago. Now I click on the AVG icon in the start menu and nothing happens, no tray icon appears and the antivirus appears to be non working. I paste here my HijackThis log: Logfile … |
| | I am afraid I have that exact same virus I've seen discussed here, system32\SKYNETlog.dat (Trojan.Agent) on my computer! I looked at hijack this and combofix, and I'm wondering if someone can help me with this crazy bug ! The symptoms: basically every time i click on my google search results, … |
| | Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:48:59 PM, on 8/25/2009 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\QuickBooks Online Backup\AgentSrv.EXE C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe C:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\MSC\mcmscsvc.exe c:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\mcafee\mna\mcnasvc.exe c:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\mcafee\mcproxy\mcproxy.exe … |
| | Hey Crunchie would you mind helping me with my similar problem? RUN DLL ERROR on startup in C:\DOCUME~1\protect.dll I have ran HijackThis and this is my log file. I would appreciate any help 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\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\WLTRYSVC.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\bcmwltry.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\ActivIdentity\ActivClient\accoca.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe … |
| | Hi guys! I badly need your help! Yesterday, I caught something while surfing (I opened an .exe file like an idiot, without thinking about it!). Moments after that, 3 porn icons appeared on my desktop and my antivirus (avg) went crazy with many notifications of infections. I was getting a … |
| | StartupList report, 1/25/2009, 6:34:42 AM StartupList version: 1.52.2 Started from : C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.EXE Detected: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) Detected: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6001.18000) * Using default options ================================================== Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Windows\WindowsMobile\wmdc.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\UpdateService\issch.exe C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Internet Security …  |
| | Hi, Its been quite a long since the last time I cleaned my computer. I did everything listed on your advise thread. The problem: In the week, my screen flickers on some games, sometimes even stuck. (I thing I downloaded only flv player, and maybe windows update). above that, the … |
| | I have been attempting to get rid of this search engine redirect virus to no avail. I have tried several anti-virus programs (Ad-Aware, AVG Free etc), without success. Every time I search via Google, Yahoo etc and then click on a search result, I am redirected to various other sites, … |
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