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Trojan Possibly Crashing Avira?

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  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Im baffled how when avira was ON when you ran combofix it found loads of trojans, yet you claim whey you MANUALLy ran avira it didnt

    Are you SURE youve scanned the entire computer with avira? If not THATs the priority

    Nielsen (And the other, you have 2 yes?) ~ bit of both really. i personally donnt trust what it does, but I also believe its a way for trojans to spread/get in
    :idea:
  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    In Avira quarantine I have about ten of these, I would have had more but I stopped quarantining and started to deny access so Combofix could carry on.
    "Detection: Contains recognition pattern of the worm/Rbot.655092 worm
    Source: C:\ComboFix\combo-fix.sys.tmp
    "
    Last complete system scan 27/02/2010. As I have Vista maybe I need to do the right click and run as administrator on Avira?

    I have Nielsen on my computer I have no knowledge of any other programme spying on me with my consent. Are you saying the Panelapp thing is not Nielsen?? :eek: Your link says it is a fraudulent security programme, I don't think I have downloaded any other virus/ malware checkers than the ones you guys have recommended. I don't click on links in e-mails or pop ups, the only one I can think of is when Combofix wanted to update, was that bad??
    Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I have just been on the uninstall programmes list and removed everything to do with Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Napster and Soulseek (none are used) and found 'Valued Opinions Application'. I think this is the panelapp? It probably is legitimate, I had a survey from them the other day that wanted to download something but then said I already had it. Thought it was Nielsen, but now i think not. Would also explain some mysterious payments on my VO account!! Will e-mail them to check.
    Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Im pretty sure theyre not the same no

    I understand Avira. So download a frech copy of combofix and follow the advice again (Wiith Avira switched off obviously)

    Then run the kaspersky scan
    :idea:
  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 28 March 2010 at 3:29AM
    Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 1 March 2010 at 11:34PM
    Above is the log of newly downloaded Combofix with NO Avira on and also NOT using the CFScript file, because using the CFScript made the laptop turn off when it got to the producing a log stage. The last three times the laptop has turned off Windows has had to check the disk when it rebooted: this is a new problem!
    Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I cant see what the actual problem is

    Im wondering if its heat related (When it just decides to switch itself off)

    Run the kaspersky scan
    :idea:
  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 2 May 2010 at 2:15PM
    Haven't used this laptop for over a month, have removed the pannelapp and Nielsen. Just run Avira which was clean then Malwarebytes which found Rootkit Agent H! No sign of the Eicar test virus which is strange.

    Then tried to run Combofix and the laptop turned itself off, it definitely wasn't too hot either. Still saying it needs to check one of the disks for consistency every time the machine is turned on.
    Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 17 February 2011 at 12:37AM
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
  • enigma52
    enigma52 Posts: 642 Forumite
    do a reinstall, you been at this for weeks
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