PC infected with spy/malware…HELP!

Hi
This happened to me some time ago and I was getting up to 60 strange emails a day so I do feel sorry for you, despite all the anti-virus ware the only thing I could do was to get a new email address. I know it is a bother telling friends of your new address but it is the only way to beat these SICK PEOPLE who think that this is GREAT FUN ??? 😡 😡 😡

That would be an aeroplane with all its paint off and showing a bit too much of the undercarriage?

oohhhh, but when they open their access panels…. :diablo:

no comment……………..

-Dazza;)

That would be an aeroplane with all its paint off and showing a bit too much of the undercarriage?

The best defence: Do not use windoze…

cal900, thanks for the offer, but i think its safer if i steer clear of *ahem* ‘those kind’ of websites for quite a while………….

-Dazza:o

If you need to use them sites, may I surgest certain free to upload sites which leave no spyware at all.

Pm for a link fella 😉

Maybe less “adult” websites would help?

😉

no comment……………..

-Dazza;)

Maybe less “adult” websites would help?

😉

To be honest I’ve had little to no problems with IE 6/7 – recent problem excepted – and this only happened due to me having not installed appropriate measures – firewall/antivirus etc – on my former PC running IE 7 and with AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware and Zonealarm installed there were no problems, any potential infections were either blocked by zonealarm or killed by AVG with secondary cleansing performed by spybot and ad-aware. On a side note I now use COMODO Firewall Pro because recent reviews of Zonealarm suggest its no longer the excellent firewall it once was.

-Dazza

There in lies the problem! Stuff can get past IE and onto your system. Listen to your Uncle Contrailjj and use something else like Firefox. This is effectively is a proactive measure where anti-virus/spyware is a reactive measure.

In that case, are you using Internet Explorer? What OS and service pack level are you on?

Using IE 6 (haven’t got round to downloading IE 7 yet…) and Windows XP SP2, the PC i was using before this had every spyware blaster, firewall and antivirus dooberry you can think of on it, i just haven’t got round to doing it yet on this one, you can bet i’ll be doing so now though in short order!

-Dazza

I must admit to being a bit naive regarding spyware etc… having tried one ‘anti-spyware’ gizmo some years ago which caused more garbage to occur than had been occurring…

I tried Viper’s link for the ‘superantispyware thingy’ and well, I must say, I’m impressed!… 137 threats found (including 3 worms and a trojan horse downloader) all satisfactorily handled.

Regarding browsers, I have to admit that I do not like Explorer (takes seemingly forever to load) nor Navigator (just doesn’t work like I remember when I started out on a Mac all those years ago).

I’ve been on XP for the last 5 years and switched to Firefox about a year ago upon recommendation from a friend who works in IT for one of our city organizations and I can now say that I really am enjoying my web-browsing experience…. now to get rid on the incessant fishing emails coming into my h’mail acc’t (its a backup – I live on gmail, not a single fish – and only 3 ‘spams’ in almost a year now)

JJ

In that case, are you using Internet Explorer? What OS and service pack level are you on?

BlueRobin, the infection must have come from a website, as i haven’t installed any new software for quite some time, i have now installed COMODO Firewall Pro and it works brilliantly, just need to download some antivirus software now and that should hopefully prevent further infection.

-Dazza

Denis, do you know for sure that by following your advice and installing those problems it would have prevented this from happening?

Dazza, how did the PC get infected in the first place? Did you install something? If so what?

Good! Now do yourself a favour, and download and pay for a proper Anti-Virus program that actually works;) . AVG and Avast are just free programs so you should remember the old adage…. you dont get something for nothing! and That rings true:p
Stay clear of Norton and McAfee, that are immense resource hogs. Get something decent like NOD32 or Kaspersky.These will cost you, but not as much as you think. NOD32 is about £25 and was £15 to renew this year, a brilliant AV, that has a small footprint if your machine is not on the powerful side.

Tried just about everything, all to no avail, I’ve since done a full system restore which has cured the problem.
Many thanks to all of you that offered solutions.

-Dazza

http://www.ewido.net/en/ – Try this and see if it works for you.

www.superantispyware.com

Thanks for the the prompt replies fellas, I’ll give the ideas a go.

-Dazza