Fake Scan Notifications

jollyjojo

Please help in as simple terms as possible.

Tonight I keep receiving what is obviously Fake Scan notifications. It keeps saying you have a security problem do you want to scan your cmputer for viruses? If you hit the no button it comes up with what is obviously a fake scanning page from "secure Expert Cleaner"

Symantec keeps popping up to say that " A recent attempt to attack your computer was blocked.

We currently have Norton Anti Virus and I have ran a full system Scan with them but it has not detected any problems!!!!!!

Is this spyware...Malware......As you can probably tell I am not very technical and when I looked at the first 4 threads on here I got very confused.

Please Help!

DCFC79

Your using norton, urgh, hate that stuff but you've payed for it so its up to you if you keep it, is symantec a firewall included as well

jollyjojo

Yes, but i am new to all this and don't know what is good or bad!

fwor

What OS do you have? If it's Windows XP, is it fully up to date via Windows Update?

aliEnRIK

try Malwarebytes
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html
UPDATE and QUICK SCAN

jollyjojo

aliEnRIK wrote: »

try Malwarebytes
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html
UPDATE and QUICK SCAN

THANK YOU:beer: THANK YOU:beer: THANK YOU

I did as advised and it appears to have gone:j

How can I stop it coming back?

Jo

Donnie

jollyjojo wrote: »

THANK YOU:beer: THANK YOU:beer: THANK YOU

I did as advised and it appears to have gone:j

How can I stop it coming back?

Jo

STOP clicking on links just because they look pretty.

Check your private messages.

aliEnRIK

jollyjojo wrote: »

THANK YOU:beer: THANK YOU:beer: THANK YOU

I did as advised and it appears to have gone:j

How can I stop it coming back?

Jo

Get rid of Norton

If you DO take this advice you need a decent firewall,I recommend Comodos ~
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

And Anti virus. AVG, AVAST or AVIRA
Personally I use AVG ~
http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe
But im thinking of trying out AVIRA as it seems to have VERY high detections of viruses
http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html?part=dl-10322935&subj=dl&tag=button&cdlPid=10877501


Disconnect from the net. Uninstall Norton. reboot and make SURE its gone. Then install Comodo. Reboot and re connect to the net. Then install the anti virus program.

Another program I would recommend is SPYBOT ~
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
UPDATE, IMMUNISE and SCAN every month or so

aliEnRIK

Donnie wrote: »

STOP clicking on links just because they look pretty.

Check your private messages.

Tried to send you one back but ur inbox is full Donnie

I think I may have missread what you put and taken it out of context

My bad

Donnie

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Get rid of Norton

If you DO take this advice you need a decent firewall,I recommend Comodos ~
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

And Anti virus. AVG, AVAST or AVIRA
Personally I use AVG ~
http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe
But im thinking of trying out AVIRA as it seems to have VERY high detections of viruses
http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html?part=dl-10322935&subj=dl&tag=button&cdlPid=10877501


Disconnect from the net. Uninstall Norton. reboot and make SURE its gone. Then install Comodo. Reboot and re connect to the net. Then install the anti virus program.

Another program I would recommend is SPYBOT ~
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
UPDATE, IMMUNISE and SCAN every month or so

If you do intend to follow this advice, use the Norton Removal Tool to remove Norton.

Actually, my advice would differ in that I would say leave everything as it is until your Norton subscription runs out (Of course you should follow my PM instruction).
The only thing I would add is download, install(remove the ticks for everything other than Create Shortcut during installation) and run CCleaner