infected please help

aussielle

You need a firewall and an anti virus

There's a very good article by D-A-L here you may find helpful. Scroll down to preventing it returning HTH

Pat__3

Weaver, I'm glad you got sorted, there a great lot here aren't they.:)

I have Zone Alarm, AVG 7.00 & Ad-Aware SE Personal, and these seem to cover most things.;)

peter_the_planter

Weaver
I think I must be a bit more paranoid than Pat, with a teenager using the computer it pays. I use a wirelesss/router/modem, Nortons for firewall/antivirus, spybot S&D, Adaware, Spywareblaster, the M.S./giant and Ccleaner as well as running Hijack this as necessary.
Glad your'e clean.

lesley2004

Hi

I too have had problems with trojans etc and have followed all the advice and think I have managed to sort things.

However when I shut dow my computer a box comes up saying it is shutting down the following progam Sysfader

What is this about??

opportunity_cost

lesley2004 wrote:

Hi

[...]However when I shut dow my computer a box comes up saying it is shutting down the following progam Sysfader

What is this about??

Try the advice here

lesley2004

hi again



Thanks for advice-no result as yet.

Internet explorer is now acting strange.

This morning when I tried to connect to Tiscali broadband, the internet connection starts up, but in my connections it says internet connection "disconnected"

However I tried again and now it says connected to tiscali broadband in the usual way

I also noticed in the processe that explorer.exe was going from 1 up to 100 CPU usage before I had even attempted to enter internet explorer?

Any ideas. My next step is to send it in to get looked at

Oh by the way I also recently installed SP2, but explorer was not working properly before this.

I tried to system restore and it wouldnt let me

weaver

Ive finaly located the critter which is causing the blue box to appear on my homepage and the divider section on my toolbar, its a program called


lop.malware and was installed using Messenger+ which the kids use on MSN

Im having one hell of a job getting rid of it, but I have found advise on
https://www.able2know.com. This has helped me rid the blue advert box along the bottom of the screen and Im now hot on the heels of getting rid of the rest.

The advise on most places Ive visited is very technical (and Im not)- but Im going to have a go at downloading the Hijack peter the planter recommended as a Hijack I think is the only way to get rid of the little critter. Oh the joys of surfing the net.

peter_the_planter

I would urge caution about removing items with Hijack this unless you are very confident with registry changes. There are forums out there who will hold your hand(proverbially) and give you a step by step guide, it can be a lengthy process.Once clean keep you preventative programs up to date, takes only about 5mins a day.