EPTThe Giant anti-spyware/anti-virus thread. - Page 3
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5541 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5541 Posts
Capo: Use the fsecure online scanner from the op. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5541 Posts
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Emptyness
Bulgaria1016 Posts
 - it costs 51.74 euro for 1 year subscription for 1 computer. Check out here.I will stay with the latest free AVG - v.7.5.524 for now and will see what to do in the future  . | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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funkie
Venezuela9377 Posts
On June 06 2008 04:39 CharlieMurphy wrote: how is mac easier? Its basically just a noob system where you can't do anything to customize shit. Not to mention all the other bullshit that comes along with owning a mac instead of a PC. (ps vista sucks even worse than mac). word. | ||
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zobz
Canada2175 Posts
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Tunnan
Sweden5 Posts
i have heard it is =) | ||
MasterOfChaos
Germany2896 Posts
On October 20 2008 18:28 zobz wrote: Oh my god. I need help. I was using stumbleupon and stupidly downloaded this free online stupid tank game on a whim, and as a result my computer seems to be infected. I already had avg on this computer but i don't appear to be able to open it, or the websites listed in op including the hijackthis site. I am fairly certainly being blocked from access to prominent anti-spyware. I have this red circle with a white X in it in my taskbar telling me every minute that i'm inffected and need antispyware. Clearly that would lead to more trouble. What do i do?! Thanks to any responders. My brother cought that one too. At least you are not as stupid as him downloading additional spyware from the site it points too  It is no standalone program, but a dll loaded inside explorer.exe. I forgot the details, but you can find the name of the dll examining explorer.exe with processexplorer. I think you can delete it in safemode, and you should also delete all registry entries pointing to it(optional). | ||
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Wysp
Canada2299 Posts
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Tyraz
New Zealand310 Posts
Well personally I'd rather never have the damn problem of having stuff slow down my computer/internet.. I'm sure most of you have a spare PC floating around... it doesn't even have to be a good one... there is well over 20 distro-firewalls out there, and if you really care the chances of anything (even, if you like, unharmful stuff like content types (flash, jpg or w/e)) get the chance to slow down your connection. Instead of a responsive personal firewall (where the data has already used up your bandwidth before detection) why not simply stop it from ever getting in...? Of course if it was only viruses/spyware you were worried about... why wouldn't you be using Linux anyways? Considering most games i play run fine on Wine, its not as though I really care about viruses... The day that someone can be bothered creating a virus to cater to ALL Linux distro's, is the day i give that man a medal  Edit: as if you'd like Mac. Its like a toned down version of Linux, with the exception that it's based on both BDS and NeXT. Admittedly I can run everything Windows can run, but not mac. But thats not the problem, because there is like nothing that I'd want that is 'mac only'. All their iLife stuff is slow as shit. If i had my way iTunes and Quicktime would be shot. | ||
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
On October 25 2008 07:05 Wysp wrote: my computer randomly restarted when I was playing dota and now I have a fake windows security system tray icon and it stops all my anit-virus/anti-malware programs from working. First time I've ever had a problem like this. I'm trying some of the online scans right now and hoping they will work. I can't even open 'Hijackthis' go to majorgeeks.com, search for "smitfraud". It defines a process that removes "fake scanner" virii. | ||
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Chef
10810 Posts
Of course if it was only viruses/spyware you were worried about... why wouldn't you be using Linux anyways? Linux is absolute hell if you're used to Windows and don't have the time to learn a new operating system... In any case, the best anti-virus is just not downloading shit you don't trust =/ I don't even bother with anti virus software anymore, cause frankly it slows the computer down as much as any virus anyway. | ||
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Wysp
Canada2299 Posts
On October 25 2008 08:21 HeadBangaa wrote: go to majorgeeks.com, search for "smitfraud". It defines a process that removes "fake scanner" virii. Thanks, my scanners are now working. The malware is still lurking, though. | ||
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HeadBangaa
United States6512 Posts
1) start->run->msconfig->startup tab and uncheck any rogue entries 2) start->run->regedit First, backup registry (File -> backup or w/e) and then go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENT VERSION\RUN and then delete mysterious .exe entries. ALso, if you find obvious malicious entries, also remove from the filesystem. If the "smitfraud" method helped remove some of it, conventional virus scans may find the remaining malware. Try AVG, Housecall, ad-aware, spybot, etc. Those fake scanner are extremely difficult to remove, GL! | ||
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Nightmarjoo
United States3360 Posts
tl;dr Avira is great. | ||
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0xDEADBEEF
Germany1235 Posts
On October 25 2008 08:57 PsycHOTemplar wrote: In any case, the best anti-virus is just not downloading shit you don't trust =/ I don't even bother with anti virus software anymore, cause frankly it slows the computer down as much as any virus anyway. It's not the 90s anymore. Malware is being distributed via clever ways these days, often via exploits in very common applications (often the browser or one of its plugins (e.g. Flash player)). There are also things like malicious ads or compromised/cracked servers (so that even trusted sites can in some cases spread malware (without the admins knowing it for a while)). Most of that stuff is completely invisible for the user. Plus, modern malware rarely wants to make your PC malfunction, because that would make you realize your PC is infected. Instead, it wants to include your PC into a botnet and then use it for sending spam or for DDoS, or it wants to spy out passwords, files etc. A virus scanner is simply essential when using Windows, and updating all your software is just as essential. Plus, most Windows home users use at least a few cracks or pirated software (games, MS Office, Photoshop, maybe more), and these things are often infested (unless you have good sources, but then you're not the majority anymore). *Desktop firewalls* are almost useless though (i.e. all those firewalls which run on the very machine you want to secure), since they can always be circumvented (even non-malware sometimes uses firewall circumvention techniques, e.g. Real Player) and they are only useful in rare cases and only when configured properly, but the target audience for those firewalls (clueless home users) has no clue about that anyway and/or just uses the default settings. | ||
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Indreide
United States23 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On November 04 2008 12:54 Indreide wrote: I'm wondering if this is normal but, when I tried to use the Kaspersky Lab's free online computer scan, my fire fox suddenly closed. Anyone? Please and thank you. use IE probably. | ||
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