Virus help urgent & what anti virus?

ian2211

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

i was talking to one of the tech guys at work who has offered to wipe my hard drive if i bring it in, and reinstall xp and im not sure weather to let him to that as a doubly sure measure, any thoughts on that? i havent got anything that i wouldnt be able to get back as my main worries would be photos but i have always backed them up.

also im thinking of getting rid of internet explorer for firefox, any thoughts anyone?
you lot have been great, if i could buy you a beer i would, many thanks

If you have all your important data backed up, you could get a clean install as this would give you a big performance increase as you will get rid of all the accumulated clutter from your machine. I like to wipe my windows boxes once a year, makes it like a new machine.

As for your web browsing, personally I use Firefox. There are thousands of add ons and you can personalise it to your own taste. There are also many security addons to make it a much safer browser. "Add block plus" and "no script" are 2 excellent additions to firefox to make web browsing a safer past time.

Reluctant_spender

davb wrote: »

There is only one thing there that looks iffy, so I would check and fix (from HijackThis):
O18 - Protocol hijack: cf - {9875BFAF-B04D-445E-8A69-BE36838CDE3E}

That entry relates to Googles Chrome browser.

pickledonionspaceraider

Stompa wrote: »

Are you sure that's a complete Malwarebytes log? It would normally include details of the infected files and folders, and show whether they've been fixed.

hi stompa, yeah im sure i cut the whole lot. i just did another malwarebytes scan to be sure and have only found one bit of dodgy stuff (Said it wasnt a virus) and deleted it

ive updated avg and scanned also and it is showing nothing at all, which suprises me as everything else, housecall, malwarebytes, bitdefender have all picked up loads, maybe the situation is becoming under control? im still considering taking this pc into work tho and asking that chappy to wipe it for me, as ian is saying, it sounds the only way to be sure.

closed

Stick avast or avira on it, AVG isn't the best free scanner. How did you know you had trojans if AVG didn't pick it up - do the online scanners still find something?

Stompa

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

hi stompa, yeah im sure i cut the whole lot.

FWIW I'm pretty sure it wasn't. It includes the lines:

Folders Infected: 1
Files Infected: 4

So below your:

Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

There should have been:

Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

except yours will have included details about exactly which 1 folder and 4 files were infected, and what (if anything) had been done about it.

pickledonionspaceraider

hi stomper Oh dear, goodness knows wht happened there - i definlatey clicked 'fix', i think i maybe didnt post the whole log, must have cut and pasted before i fixed. ive scanned since that log with malwarebytes, and it showed one bit of adware so a different result again

hi closed - i knw i had a some kind of virus as my boyfriend downloaded this random file, and then all my home page had changed- extra toolbars etc, so i scanned immediatley with avg and nothing, so i scanned with housecall, and malwarebytes, bit defender which are all picking up stuff. i was scanning until last night and the last scan showed one bit of adware, no viruses so maybe im winning the war and maybe im not lol.

i downloaded the avg 9.0 last night which seems a better improvement to what i had at least

thanks everyone
oh and stompa what does FWIW mean?

Browntoa

For What Its Worth ??

Stompa

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

ive scanned since that log with malwarebytes, and it showed one bit of adware so a different result again

OK, that probably means that you did fix the 1 folder and 4 files issues the first time round.

Froglet

I had a virus on mine at the weekend.Our computer savvy mate installed spybot and removed the virus that AVG just couldn't, despite 3 total scans,.However i still have a problem with the data execution prevention that is stopping me logging in to some of my banking sites.I have been advised to download malwarebytes but need to know if it will clash with the skybot?

Stompa

Froglet wrote: »

I have been advised to download malwarebytes but need to know if it will clash with the skybot?

It should be fine.