Hellfire
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 posted on 24/3/04 at 10:06 AM |
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Virus (Trojan) check
I have a Norton virus checker which I update at least once/week. I recently went to a link posted on here for
Trend Micro where you get free virus scan's. To my amazement it found two viruses 
Both trojan's - one of them giving me very dodgy pop-up's and the other reconfiguring my homepage to a search engine www********.cc (Steve
Gust I believe your's does the same!). Anyway, just to check if you have the startpage one.... go to find files and type in:
hh.htt
tips.ini
If you have either or both of these you have it too. But, don't just take my word for it, if you go to the site (link above in red) it'll
scan for you FREE!!!
I've done the process to rid and guess what... I'm back to normal again 
I'm also removing my current virus checker and getting another one which is better! Maybe one recommended by the site itself 
Hope this helps in any way!!!
Regards
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JoelP
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 10:08 AM |
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i noticed that too, there seems to be a big difference between which checkers find what. not much use if you want a consistant scan...
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 10:14 AM |
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Yes, hellfire I had a .cc on my work PC
I used all three of the software packages mentioned in the other thread before I managed to kill it.
However, later on Friday it killed my PC too....all i got at startup was (on Me) the desktop blue, with no start bar or tasks running!
I re-installed windows, and removed all of the 3 packages, and its been ok for over a day.
usually it changes at least once or twice in a day, and always first thing in the morning
atb
steve
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pbura
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 12:46 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gustersonHowever, later on Friday it killed my PC too....all i got at startup was (on Me) the desktop blue,
with no start bar or tasks running!
Dang!
One nice feature of Me is the System Restore function, helpful if you've buggered something by mistake.
Steve, if you're still having problems, I suggest that you run HijackThis, hit the 'Scan' button, then 'Save log'. If
you post the log here, someone should be able to figure out the problem. Or you can e-mail it to me, if you'd like.
Pete
Pete
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Staple balls
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 12:59 PM |
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very odd
anyway, make sure your AV software has realtime scanning turned on.
and for fricks sake, got yourself a firewall, a hardware one is better in most cases (as seen in most adsl routers, but may still allow browser
exploits to be used by sites) or a software one like this (bottom most download) which'll
stop anything you want accessing the interweb , so can be good for stopping viruses getting too far
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 01:28 PM |
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Just checked office computer, had 6 listings of Virus's. They use Norman Virus Control, with updates everytime the computers online.
It's obviously crap !
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Staple balls
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 02:15 PM |
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norman? who's he?
really though, i only use norton corp, i know about 20 people who do, oh, and all machines at imperial imperial college do (iirc, over 500)
and all these machines. very. VERY rarely get viruses, afraid in this case i'm gonna call user error
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 02:32 PM |
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I seem to be fixed now!
I thought about system restore AFTER I started putting windows back on. Never used it - and if it cant be started from boot, it wouldnt have loaded
anyway!
Not even safe mode would work.
atb
steve
quote:
Originally posted by pbura
quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gustersonHowever, later on Friday it killed my PC too....all i got at startup was (on Me) the desktop blue,
with no start bar or tasks running!
Dang!
One nice feature of Me is the System Restore function, helpful if you've buggered something by mistake.
Steve, if you're still having problems, I suggest that you run HijackThis, hit the 'Scan' button, then 'Save log'. If
you post the log here, someone should be able to figure out the problem. Or you can e-mail it to me, if you'd like.
Pete
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Hellfire
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 05:34 PM |
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Norman Antivirus...
Staples... that's what I use! 2 viruses got thro' and ALWAYS on realtime!!!
Have you checked?
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Staple balls
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 05:39 PM |
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i have no need to, i have no viruses, if i did, i'd know about them
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JamJah
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| posted on 24/3/04 at 05:46 PM |
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All antivirus compainies resaearch seperatly to keep competitive. If they all share information theyd all be broke but you wont get this. In defence
to Norton and McAfee that I beklieve were slated above, no-one is every safe from everything.
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