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Today the cyber security experts at [URL="http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20100322_01"]Norton announced the top 10 riskiest U.S. cities for cybercrime[/URL]. The next time you pay a bill or update your status on Facebook you might want to look over your shoulder [virtually]. It seems Seattle, Boston, San Francisco and Washington D.C. are the riskiest …

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Hi, Has anyone else experienced this? I have two firewalls, and antivirus so i am surprised to say the least! But not that surprised.. Can anyone help me work out what is going on? Cheers!

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I got a call from a frind to help remove a virus problem they were haveing. I ran Malware bytes and avast and it cleaned up the major problems the viruse was causing. I was to run spybot but it is unable to connect to the server to update and …

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Ok I am a basic entry level pc tech with no actual schooling so its all self taught. I say this so yall can teach me as we go on th best first steps to take. Lady said she was getting a 2009 antivirus popping up all the time so …

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Hi there, I have been having problems with my pc (vista). The search results tab keeps popping up (sometimes 20 of them at any given time) It's driving me nuts so any help would be much appreciated!! Here is my hijack log: C:\Program Files\Spyware Doctor\pctsAuxs.exe C:\Program Files\Spyware Doctor\pctsSvc.exe C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe …

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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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I have started this program and have finished the first part and it builds just fine but when i debug it I am gettin an error message Run-time check failure#3 - the variable total_sales is being used without being defined. Can some help me out? #include <iostream> using namespace std; …

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Sorry, I accidentally posted this before in the Windows NT-2000-XP forum. This is where it belongs. A while back someone suggested having, as part of your antimalware arsenal, some app that could be installed on a flash drive which could supposedly detect any spyware / malware on whatever computer the …

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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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A new survey has revealed that while 78 percent of them agree that it is wrong, a quarter of the kids asked admitted that hacking really is child's play. The survey of more than 1000 children discovered that the boy hacker stereotype no longer holds true, with 47 percent of …

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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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If it were not bad enough that the Iowa Division of Homeland Security official website was hacked, defaced and forced to close down temporarily it appears that another Iowa state government resource was also compromised a few weeks before. At the end of January the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission …

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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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