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new asus arrived - but aaaagh!
merlin1
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in Techie Stuff
i love it! multi touch pad, loads of gizmos, and have spent this afternoon moving in - music on itunes and ms office installed, along with firefox
following reading the recommendations on here i have downloaded malwarebytes, updated it and am right this minute running a full scan its already found 9 objects infected :eek:
the only thing i've done recently is remove the factory installed norton using the downloaded removal tool! since then i have noticed that on startup i get a small black box pop up that then dissappears (looks like a dos prompt), could this be what mwb is finding?
we are 26 mins into the scan and no more found yet. when its finished do i trust mwb to sort em out?
following reading the recommendations on here i have downloaded malwarebytes, updated it and am right this minute running a full scan its already found 9 objects infected :eek:
the only thing i've done recently is remove the factory installed norton using the downloaded removal tool! since then i have noticed that on startup i get a small black box pop up that then dissappears (looks like a dos prompt), could this be what mwb is finding?
we are 26 mins into the scan and no more found yet. when its finished do i trust mwb to sort em out?
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Perhaps MWB is only picking up cookies at the mo, Just let it run through have it fix everything, then re-run a quick scan to ensure everything's gone, AlanEvery day when I wake up I thank the Lord I'm WELSH. .0
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Brand Spanking new laptops have alot of CRAP pre-installed, I'd completely wipe it and start from scratch!!!
Glad you like it
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phew thanks both of you! will report back soon, i'm letting avira do its thing right now too. (luke filewalker!? who thought that one up! :rotfl:
such a horrid feeling that i've done something wrong - i'm not shy of pc's but this ones soooo shiny new :rotfl:0 -
Malwarebytes doesn't pick up Cookies.
Yes, Remove Selected at the end and reboot when prompted. 0 -
oooo! avira has found some stuff that cant be removed all i can do is copy to quarantine or ignore c:/ users\******\safe music\ _avt
" " safe music\ _lit
" " " "
and the above is repeated for safe video and safe doc ( the ****** is my name btw)
it also does look like i have a partitioned harddrive - a c drive with 116gb and a data d drive with nothing at all used of 104gb .... the plot thickens......0 -
and mwb has found 10 objects infected with trojan.bho :eek:0
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i suggest searching some recent virus help threads and look for alienrik's instructions
you cant really go wrong
obviously skip the MWB scan but do do a hijack this scan and post the log upBack by no demand whatsoever.0 -
ok thanks for that, i have let mwb do a quick scan and its not found anything now, although on reboot i'm still getting that black box flash up - its an .exe file of some description i think, I'll try and get its full name next time....
i cant believe all this hassle on a lappy thats only just been switched on!!! :mad::rolleyes:0
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