Mar

2

virus or malware slowing down my laptop

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hi
i’ve been noticing lately that my laptop has been running real slow and it affects the firefox and aim. my laptop is a Windows Vista. i don’t know if it’s a virus or anything else. i tried using symantec endpoint scan and it’ll find nothing. also, […]

Feb

24

Malware author punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure

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With a sick email malware campaign, pond dwelling scumbags are claiming to have kidnapped the children of would-be targets of infection.
The contemptible junk mail messages attempt to panic recipients into opening email attachment supposedly carrying images of abducted infants but in reality loaded with a variant of the Resex information stealing Trojan.
Net security firm Sophos […]

Feb

23

Adobe flaw could lead to more PDF malware

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Security companies are warning of a new Adobe flaw that could compromise a PC merely by opening a malicious PDF file.
Hackers are exploiting the flaw in the wild, although attacks are not widespread yet, according to Symantec and the Shadowserver Foundation.
The flaw affects version 9 of Reader and Acrobat as well as earlier versions, according […]

Feb

14

Malware disabled windows xp startup process

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Hi
I have Dell XPS M140 laptop and recently had a malware/spyware attack which disabled the XP startup process. I tried running Norton and few other virus and spywares , but it is getting disabled. Below is the DDS log, can someone please help to fix […]

Jan

20

[Resolved] Computer is loaded with multiple cases of Trojans/malware ect

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Hello. Recently many pop ups and ect have been appearing. My windows live One care(Which has expired so is relatively useless) found a certain trojan that the name escapes me, but when trying to delete failed. The internet was redirected multiple times and Internet pages opened […]

Jan

8

Computer is loaded with multiple cases of Trojans/malware ect

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Hello. Recently many pop ups and ect have been appearing. My windows live One care(Which has expired so is relatively useless) found a certain trojan that the name escapes me, but when trying to delete failed. The internet was redirected multiple times and Internet pages opened […]

Jan

5

[Active] IE and Firefox not running apparent virus / malware issue

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Hi,
I have been fighting virus / malware for most of the last two days. At this point mcafee, adware and spybot are showing no issues but I am unable to run IE 7 or Firefox. Safari remains available but it does occasionally appear to […]

Jan

5

[Active] Malware problems

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Hello,
During my last scan with Norton Antivirus 2006 (bit outdated, i know) and with MBAM I’ve found a infostealer.gampass virus, and at first it also noticed a trojan.backdoor and trojan.dropper (these are now gone I think, since on recent scans they have not shown). I went […]

Jan

5

[Active] Malware problem

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Hi, how is ya’s?
Can I just say i’m an absoloute beginner with this sort of stuff, but would like to be able to learn how to fix this problem, with a bit (ok, lots) of help from this forum…
Yesterday my computer gave me a warnng I […]

Jan

5

Avest is saying virus and malware

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hi pros,
I happen to have Avest 8 free for home user.All is ok for a yr.But last week it scan and giving me option of virus if I ask AVEST to delete it deletes and reboot but if I come back to windows and scan it […]

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