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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 … |
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