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Offline Wazzzer

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PC help needed - malware - got the bugger!
« on: 01 May 2011, 20:03 »
I'm at the end of my tether with the prob I've got with the PC at the mo.

Basically I get either redirected or another page opens up about 20% of the time while I'm browsing the net, especially while clicking google links. IE9 is affected as well as Firefox 4. Also clicksor ads are everywhere now

I've run various spyware programs (AVG, Spybot S&D, Malwarebytes) and nothing is found

Any help is massively appreciated as it's driving me nuts!! :cry:

To add, just clicked on here and it opened another page with google analytics  :angry:
« Last Edit: 26 May 2011, 18:54 by Wazzzer »
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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #1 on: 01 May 2011, 20:13 »
As viruses update almost hourly it's almost impossible for AV companies to keep up. Install Microsoft security essentials , it's free and has removed viruses others couldn't detect. Leave your PC off for a few days and scan again or reinstall after backing up your data.
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Quote from: PenguinGTI on 11 May 2012, 17:49
But for the purest engine experience, displacement has no replacement. All other methods are simply attempts to artificially recreate the benefits of displacement.

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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #2 on: 01 May 2011, 20:20 »
I had something like this about a year ago. No matter what I did OT would always redirect my browser to some fecking website.

System restore, virus scans, malware scans, registry edits; none of them worked.

The only solution was to reinstall the OS (win XP) in safe mode.
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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #3 on: 01 May 2011, 20:22 »
yep that's what it's looking like at the mo  :cry:
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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #4 on: 01 May 2011, 20:28 »
Is there any way you can get the hard drive out and use it as an external drive in another computer?
Or even use it as a secondary internal drive?

Best thing is always to do the scan on another computer - run everything like adaware, spybot, antivirus etc.
Failing that, boot into safe mode and run all of your software in safe mode.

If you can get HiJackThis and post up the log, we can have a look and see what's there.
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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #5 on: 01 May 2011, 21:09 »
Avast updates twice a day its fantastic and also free get it downloaded as well as microsoft essentials
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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #6 on: 01 May 2011, 21:33 »
trying to save the log file but it doesn't do anything for some reason, something I'm doing wrong?
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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #7 on: 01 May 2011, 22:03 »
Can't remember the technical details, but IIRC there's a version of Linux designed for this purpose, you boot from a USB stick and scan the main disc running from the stick. Let me know if you need any further help - I'm only in hospital tonight.
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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #8 on: 01 May 2011, 22:07 »
You tried Microsoft Security Essentials? It's surprisingly good :smiley:

Should save to your hard drive, then you can open it in a notepad copy and paste it here or on Bleeping Computer (the logs are VERY long).



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Quote from: PenguinGTI on 11 May 2012, 17:49
But for the purest engine experience, displacement has no replacement. All other methods are simply attempts to artificially recreate the benefits of displacement.

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Re: PC help needed - malware
« Reply #9 on: 01 May 2011, 22:12 »
Ok. I'll bite.

Why are you in Hospital Thomas?
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