virus, trojan, malware, adware?

Reply #15 – November 06, 2006, 01:14:46 PM

Yep, do what Funny Cricket said, but on the contrary I wouldn't delete any of the apps you download like the few I will mention below..I'd run them maybe once a week to just be safe....run the apps in safe mode without networking, but make sure you properly update the definitions before going into safe mode....Safe mode is built for people to repair and uninstall different things with little, to no problems...I use AVG free for my anti-virus program, AVG free for my spyware tool (aka Ewido), Adaware personal for my Adaware and a few other misc. tools...I would also suggest you install Firefox..it's much more secure and scalable than IE..you can install themes, extensions and it pretty much disables/blocks a lot of junk that IE lets pass thru and gets you infected....now people that click on anything that pops up, doesn't help regardless of your browser, but Firefox, for the most part, prevents as much as possible..I have the adblock, nojavascript, and keyscrambler extension installed with my Firefox. 1 other thing I'd recommend for everyone is to goto http://www.google.com and search for Mike's ad blocking host and install it...this will block a lot of ads, which are usually what people click on that replicates a shiznit load of spyware on the person's PC.

88turbo-have you tried changing your homepage in IE back to whatever it was previous to the attack?!!? have you cleaned out your cache, temporary internet files, cookies?!?!!? Go here and download/install this application...http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php#hijackthis It's hijackthis....run and save the logfile then post it in this thread and we'll go thru it and tell you which to delete...