| Author | Message | ||
     Swordsman |
Okay, XP is going nuts! I got a trojan today, but AVG cleaned it up quickly. However, now I'm getting some totally crazy stuff happening. I keep getting these random "click" sounds, like I've hit a button somewhere. Even stranger, I will suddenly start getting audio of some web-based TV stuff! Out of nowhere, I hear an interview with Bruno, and then some other celebrity something-or-other. There's no video, no indication of ANYTHING running. However, a quick check in my Task Manager shows iexplorer.exe up an running, and killing the process stops the audio. I've run 2 AVG scans, and nothing shows up! Any ideas? This is totally screwy!  ~SM | ||
| Etennuly |
Somewhere in the clean up programming you can delete a time period. It takes a section of time back to a time you would pick, like the day before the incident, and in a few minutes it is as if that day never happened. I can't recall where it is right now. You will loose anything done from date to date, but it fixes amazing messes. | ||
| Midknyte |
try a different scanner - bitdefender has an online scanner that will save you from installing a second/redundant scanner. http://www.bitdefender.com/scanner/online/free.htm l | ||
| Swordsman |
Yeah, SOMETHING on here keeps triggering an invisible Internet Explorer. Gotta find whatever it is and shut it down. ~SM | ||
| Steve_mackay |
download, and run this... http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php | ||
| Indy_bueller |
Try Microsoft Defender also. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Reinstall windows from scratch... and put on good anti malware software before you start restoring any data. An expert trying to clean up "post infection" is probably lucky to get it all 60% of the time... | ||
| Andrejs2112 |
Try an Apple.  | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
Kaspersky Internet Security. I'll never have Norton, McCafee, or others on my PC again. For $30/year this protects better, updates more often, and affects system performance less than other software.  | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
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| Hootowl |
"Reinstall windows from scratch... and put on good anti malware software before you start restoring any data. An expert trying to clean up "post infection" is probably lucky to get it all 60% of the time..." Yep. There's some really nasty stuff out there now. You'll never get rid of it all. Start over. | ||
| Swordsman |
I despise reinstalls. I have entirely too much crap.  I managed to update my AVG, and it found 4 items that it couldn't remove or clean. The actual explorer.exe was one of them, as well as the svchost.exe. I then ran Trendmicro's house call (browser based scan), and it picked up about 6 java items that it did delete. However, I'm still getting the clicks, and IE is still launching itself, though now instead of audio I'm getting error windows. I guess I've nabbed part of it. Maybe with another few days that virus definitions will get updated again and I can get the rest of it. Just FYI, I managed to pick this thing up through Firefox. ~SM | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
svchost.exe what is that? ....because i suspected it was something not normal, but i was never able to get rid of it.. the virus/trojan was a long time ago, and this svchost.exe popped up and has been ever since. | ||
| Swordsman |
It's part of the Windows automatic update stuff. It's actually legitimate. I wonder though, when sometimes you have 3 and 4 instances of it running at one time...? And that's when I'm NOT having any problems! ~SM | ||
| Froggy |
Often times they will name the spyware files the same as legit stuff so it will throw you off. Disable system restore as it can come back in there. Do the scans after booting into Safe Mode | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
i've got 11 svchost.exe's  | ||
| Xb12xmike |
copied: At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the registry and constructs a list of services that it needs to load. Under normal conditions, multiple instances of Svchost.exe will be running simultaneously. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that many services can be run depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This allows for better control and debugging. http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2009/02/02/s vchost-viewer-shows-exactly-what-each-svchostexe-i nstance-is-doing/ | ||
| Rkc00 |
Like Andrejs2112 said. !!! GET A MAC !!!!  Mike Long Island, NY 09 XB12X Red/Black 06 VRSCR Blue/Silver | ||
| Reepicheep |
If you aren't getting breached on a mac, it isn't because they can't, it's that they don't care. Yet. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758 Macs are better for security. They have a better OS model, a better foundational set of technologies, and a wiser collection of feature implementations. A good Linux distribution like Ubuntu is better then Mac. For all the same reasons. Macs are also "de-facto" safer as well... for the same reason there are fewer spotted owl or wolly mamoth epidemics running through the population... the mac space is just not as target rich an environment. Just don't think a Mac (or linux box) "solves" your security problem. It's more a case where having a mac dodges many problems in many ways for the time being. That shouldn't be minimized, but don't oversell it either. | ||
| Froggy |
Simply not running your Windows computer as an Administrator account will eliminate 92% of the security vulnerability. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9127318/Rem oving_admin_rights_stymies_92_of_Microsoft_s_bugs? source=rss_topic125 Macs and Linux OS's don't give admin access by default. | ||
| Swordsman |
Holy cow, this thing has me bent over and without the courtesy of some lube. Everything catches bits and pieces, but the source is still eluding the scans. I even ran it in safe mode, to no avail (DAMN did that take a long time!). AND, get this: I can't manually update Windows because it has to be run through Internet Explorer, which has totally crapped out on me. It won't go anywhere without crashing. Absolute genius idea, Mr. Gates. Automatic updates seem to be dead as well. AND I can't install another antivirus program. I can try to run it as much as I like, but it simply disappears. And I don't have a system restore point. I'm 100% ••••••• ~SM |
