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Just wanted to give more credit to the Daniweb, for having information on this anti-malware tool. No other websites I found at the time had any information on it. We had one of those root kits (aluron) that prevented us from browsing the internet - and redirected the browser to …

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Hi : I have a client's computer in which I can not get the specific drivers for the video card to work. I have disabled the drivers and windows established generic driver for the video card which works ok. I have scanned or viruses and spyware and still nothing seems …

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Hello all, 2 days ago my computer was infected by something called Windows Safe Mode. it tells me my ram usage is maxed and one of my hard drives has failed. Also, after 15 minutes or so I will get 1 or 2 error messages and clicking anything on them …

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Hello, Earlier today my laptop was taken out by a virus, possibly a parasite. There had been a few errors thoughout the day, my laptop is well maintained but I didnt think anything of the messages and I am usually capable of fixing a problem. The browser crashed, and I …

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Hi People I own a Toshiba Satellite A10 and it's got a white screen when I turn it on it was working fine until two days ago when it got the white screen when I booted her up I thought the problem may be the battery but it's charged I …

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Hi Look at your source and see if you can find <iframe> tags in it with a value of 1 that links to the search site.

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Hi, My desktop is running XP Pro SP3 and has McAfee A/V protection installed: [Security Center 9.15, Virus Scan 13.15, Personal Firewall 10.15. Anti Spamware 10.15] CPU Intel x86 PC with 4Gb main memory running on 945HCM-S mother board BIOS American Megatrends P1.00 08/19/2008 Data Execution Prevention is active [essential …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]19603[/ATTACH]I normally begin reviews with some background of the company or product I’m writing about but in this case let me say: every I.T. professional, programmer, developer, digital artist or person that carries their data and files around on a flash drive or disk needs an Imation Defender Biometric product. …

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I'm new on this forum and I don't know if I post it at the correct thread or topic but just want to know if my system is infected of virus or is there any software running in my computer that is harmful to my computer. I was attack by …

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guys i have a serious problem my cmd is not under my control as a virus has taken the power. now i want to format my entire drives completely with some .bat file. i am unable to do it with windows disk coz the virus is very talented to come …

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dear Sir/Madam, I am unable open the regedit and showing the message that "Registry editing has been disable by your Administrator" though i am logging in as an Administrator. I have tried lots of technique but all are in vain. I have tried these .... 1.[URL="http://www.techtipsgeek.com/re-enable-registry-editor-disabled-virus/4392/"]http://www.techtipsgeek.com/re-enable-registry-editor-disabled-virus/4392/[/URL] 2. Registryfix.exe 3. Restore …

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Hello, A trojan dropper (according to malwarebytes) was downloaded to my system. I tried getting rid of it with malwarebytes, but the virus keeps coming back. The second time Malwarebytes identified it as a gamervance, but it continued to stay on my computer. In addition to that, my computer has …

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Hello. Lately, my laptop has been acting very weird. Its been shutting off and restarting on its own, it froze yesterday and showed a blue screen saying it crashed and had to restart, and then today, my firefox has been opening by itself and keeps opening windows that exceed 30 …

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Hey all ! I have an Acer laptop with Vista on it. It had some viruses on it and also ZoneAlarm firewall. I "think" I got all the nasties off of it and I removed zonealarm. Now, everytime I bootup, the Windows firewall stays on for about 30 seconds and …

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Hi I'm a bit of a noob and don't really know where to go from here. It seems I have a virus but my computer won't let me open any .exe files, or let me into control panel, my documents etc. All the thumbnails on the desktop are missing. I …

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Hi, I need some help with this because it's driving my friends crazy. My Yahoo email account was hacked by this spammer and I can't get rid of the virus by using Kaspersky anti-virus, running the full scan. The trojan keeps using my email address to spam my friends with …

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Ladies and Gents, I would appreciate your help solving a problem with an XP laptop I have been asked to clean up. It was riddled with Malware and Spyware including various fake scanners asking the user to upgrade to pro. I have been running malwarebytes and avg 2011 on it, …

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Any ideas on this one.....? I cleaned down a virus infected pc (Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP3 with IE8). All the scans are now clean but iexplore.exe runs as a process in task manager. It throws an error every few minutes saying Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and …

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Hi .. i am unable to install any anti virus or run avast as i dont know what is wrong with my system and this is irritating me neither i can open task manager as it says it has been disabled by admin nor can i run safe mode, please …

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Hi Folks; This is my first post. I attempted to search through some of the threads hoping to find the specific problems i see on my desktop (running on XP), to no avail. Hope you can help. Thanks Symptoms: Virus or Malware downloaded? 1. Have to type "explorer.exe" on Task/Manager/File/new …

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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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Hello need help and I saw this forum and was hoping someone could. I keep getting reidirected to different websites so I google that and found a thread on this site that helped but I am a novice and don't know exactly how to fix my problem. Another problem I …

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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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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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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 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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Hi Folks My computer keeps popping up random warning about microsoft office outlook "MAPI32.DLL is corrupt," and randomly opening up an unknown file in Windows media player. This happens whether or not I am running explorer, firefox, or neither. Kaspersky cannot detect any issues, even after I upgraded to the …

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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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If I've already got Postini what value add would installing GroupShield for Exchange provide??? More specifically internal emails within the co. (10K employees) are not scanned but all nodes on the network should have McAfee VSE On-Access Scanning enabled and current (about 95% compliant). So if a threat attempted to …

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Hello, I have been given the source code of a large tailor made .Net Windows Application and im required to scan through it and certify that it is safe and Malware-free. Are there any tools out there that actually scan .Net source code to detect possible embedded/hidden Malware code? A …

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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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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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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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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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Please advice, From where I can get all coders script & step by step tutorial to develop Antivirus Program. Script & codes For component like for Scanning, quarantine, update, browse drive etc... Your expertise is requested...

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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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Recently I turned on my laptop and realized my taskbar changed by XP blue to gray with no special icons. The taskbar looks like a boring version of Windows 98. I tried everything and nothing's working. It was normal yesterday. I'm using Trend Micro Internet Security. I tried to click …

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Vista Home Premium X64 I got a virus that seems to have messed up my OS pretty good. I clean my system regularly using MBAM and Super Anti Spy Ware, and was using Avast AV. But my system got a nasty virus. I currently can't explore my system files without …

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I was turning off some of the startup services on my computer(Windows XP), and found a program under the Startup tab that I do not remember installing, and have not seen on other computers. The name of this program is =, and the location listed is also =. This made …

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Hi So I had a post all typed up, but then when I was running GMER the computer crashed and I lost it. The gist of it is that I'm home visiting my parents and their computer is pretty close to FUBAR. It's got a virus that's redirecting search results …

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I have been trying to remove this virus without having to pay a further £60 to either Norton or McAfee. I have run GMER and DDS scans as well as running Malwarebytes anti-malware. All the detials are attached. I have followed the instructions on various web pages but nothing seems …

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Hello, First post here, but I've found many answers on this site. Sorry in advance for any vague information, I'm dealing with my neighbor's PC that I'm not too familiar with. He asked me to come over to deal with a virus/malware issue. It was the Security Suite malware, the …

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Hi, I recently got a virus which will not let me run any of my programs. I read the sticky thread about what to do before you post, but I cannot access the internet. I do however, have a USB which I can transfer over the programs requested, however, I …

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Hi, Good day! My problem is that I can't install any anti-virus on a PC... I strongly believe it has many viruses because it slow-ups the unit. Almost all of the anti-virus I run ([URL="http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus"]Avira[/URL], [URL="http://www.avast.com/index"]Avast[/URL], [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com/kaspersky_internet_security"]KIS[/URL], [URL="http://www.kaspersky.com/"]KAV[/URL] and [URL="http://free.avg.com/ww-en/homepage"]AVG[/URL]) cannot install successfully as if being destroyed or blocked by …

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Hi, I am using firefox for web browsing, but IE runs in the background and plays audio adverts in the background. Carried out various scans found in different forums and I'm finally here. I have followed the guideline in the sticky, adverts are still running. GMER two cannot be created …

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So I have no idea what any of these files mean on my computer. I was looking for a movie to watch for a class assignment and I clicked a link that downloaded a virus on my computer. I've been running scans left and right from Malwarebytes and it is …

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Hi First i'd like to thank you for your time and effort in maintaining such an organized page. I know you are all volunteers so i appreciate your help. On to business then. My only problem is that sometimes when i click on a link say in google search, i'm …

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Hello, I'd appreciate any help I could get on the current problem I am having with my computer. The problem seems a little complex to me, so I will try to explain as best as I can and with as much details to help you guys understand the issue better. …

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