Left UAC off...Huge virus problems

[WildEagle]

I have seen NOD32 when I tried it on Vista, generate a false positive for spyware in the EMUSIC download manager, when in fact there is none in it. I had a friend who used Avast up until last year, when he installed Live OneCare, and Live OneCare up and detected a virus that Avast missed entirely. It's incidents like this, as to why I lost faith in a lot of programs.

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

deleted wininet.ini in C:\windows. It was for smitfraud-c.bs.

I might try Live Onecare. I don't trust Microsoft to do it right either.

 

[kr4ey]

Try Superantispyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, they should take care of it.

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

It is starting to act normal again. S&D and Trendmicro did not find anything the last three scans.

 

[stormy13]

Just found this,

CNN.com Daily Top 10 Removal Guide (Uninstall Instructions)

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Yeah, like anyone is going to open a link like that after reading this thread.











Later Ted

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

Look for wininet.ini in C:\windows. Open it. If it shows a virus file. Delete it.

 

[Brink]

Just found this,

CNN.com Daily Top 10 Removal Guide (Uninstall Instructions)

Yeah, like anyone is going to open a link like that after reading this thread.

Later Ted

It's ok Ted. That is a legitimate site.

Shawn

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

It's ok Ted. That is a legitimate site.

Shawn

Thanks for the reply Shawn!





Later Ted

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

It seemed legitmate. You have to read their methods and determine what they are doing and how they are doing it. I find when they offer unknown software to clean it up is when you need to do a second look.

I hope S&D and other apps go 64-bit sooner than later. I would love to see a corporate paid version of this S&D. I am looking at the new HP switches with virus detection modules on them for our corporate network.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

@Guru, have you seen this? (not 64-bit though)

http://www.vistax64.com/software/173005-new-version-spybot-s-d.html

I got that last night when I opened S & D to do a scan.







Later Ted

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

I am using the latest version of S&D. My problem is 32-bit apps don't work with the 64-bit registry properly. I check for updates each time.

 

[johngalt]

This CNN thing is really making rounds - I have a honeypot email address that is getting something on the order of 5-10 of these per day, and that is just one email address - and I have 10....

I have already seen close to 70 of these suckers now - and they keep coming.

BTW, anyone not familiar with the site - the board has a habit of displaying the web page title when we post URLs, but the URL is to a site called BleepingComputer, a ***very* good site for security and end user tutorials

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

I get 10+ a day. I put a rule to delete them and reported it to my ISP to block.