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, […]

Mar

1

Houston, we have a virus

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A computer worm that ferrets out passwords managed to stow away on laptops aboard the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. It is not the first time a NASA computer has become infected.
SpaceReg.com identified the infection as W32.TGammima.AG, a worm that spreads by copying itself to removable media devices. Once in place, it steals passwords […]

Feb

17

Infected with trojan/virus and windows will not boot anymore

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hi and thank you to anyone who is willing to help
I am currently running windows xp pro edition service pack 3 and it was up to date by about the 15th of December.
So i would say about a couple of weeks ago i got hit with […]

Feb

17

Virus first, then can ping IP’s, but not domain names!!!

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Help! Fixing my sister’s computer. She acquired the TSSD (????) virus. Got that removed, so I think, but now she can’t use browsers to access the internet.
I can operate gotomypc just fine. And I can ping IP Addresses. But I cannot […]

Feb

15

Please help: Virus [after downloading from piratebay.org]

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I tried to download a program using piratebay.org, and after it downloaded I realized it was riddled with Trojans and whatever else. It seemingly corrupted my Mcafee, so I uninstalled it and installed Avast Home Edition and Bitdefender. Bitdefender found a few infected files and moved […]

Feb

5

Transfer Virus To USB

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Hi, I would like to know the likelihood of my USB Stick being infected by a Virus. The other day I helped a relative to disinfect his PC he managed to get himself the "Antivirus 2008" plus accompanying malware.
I downloaded on my PC the Kaspersky free […]

Feb

4

avast, ssl, and virus detection?

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I’m experimenting with Avast, and have come across a couple of issues that are leading me further down the path of confusion, so I thought I’d try turning here for clarification/ help.
While I can get the "insert note into clean message" to work with my outgoing […]

Feb

3

registry [Remove virus from registry]

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how to clean virus out the registry r were they local in the registry
Please observe Posting Rules #3 - Meaningful Subject - I have adjusted your title without penalty as you are new here.
What evidence do […]

Feb

3

Is XP Anti-virus legit?

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At work, one of my colleagues has a program that will not remove from his computer called XP Anti-Virus 2.4.
He does not know when it installed, and when he used Add/Remove Programs (XP Pro) to remove it, it left and the came back.
When he clicks on […]

Feb

2

Major virus warning - real or hoax?

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A friend sent the following message to me today. I’m always suspicious of virus warnings that ask me to forward them to everybody I know, because that’s what the bad guy wants, to have everybody warn everybody and thereby clog up the Internet. I’m […]

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