trojan horse downloader.istbar.5bm

magoogy

can anyone help me get shut of this for free please?

peter_the_planter

As a search on Google dosn't come up with anything well just have to run with what we've got. Have you got an anti-virus and firewall up and running?(and up to date). download Adaware, Spybot S&D, Spywareblaster,Ccleaner and Microsoft spyware progs. run a scan with each, check for updates on each before running scan. If these don't clear it come back.

Nobby_Nomates

give this a try
Best of all its free

https://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

milla

This might help

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.istbar.html

Good luck

NellyLock

you've asked this before?! why have you started another thread and not responded to the suggestions given before??

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=24098

not wishing to sound harsh but if someone looks for you then its courteous to say whether the help worked?!

magoogy

right i have tried the istbar and it worked thanks..............

nelly whatever - yes, i have started this before, but when the infamous crash happened i couldnt find the post to reply .....i actually have the problem come back and tried to find the original post and couldnt...........

thanks for the help ...........

magoogy

Thank You All Of You For Your Help - Very Much Appreciated

peter_the_planter

You havn't said if you have all the tools above and they are updated regularly. If you havn't get them, they're all free and essential.
Peter

magoogy

meant to post back about the tools, sorry...........i have avg and the new windows security package (cant remember the name).....am now installing the windows software you mentioned above - just hope it doesnt slow my pc down..........

thank you..........

magoogy

i installed the windows software above - it looked great, it found loads of spyware and removed/quarantined them for me - i thought great - it told me to reboot, aaaaaaaarrghghgh - when i rebooted my pc wouldnt work right and my firewall had gone - couldnt find it to switch it back on and most of my programs wouldnt work, hence i have had to restore my pc back to before i installed it.................WHAT DID I DO WRONG?

peter_the_planter

Do you have a separate firewall as well as the Windows SP2 one, if so disable the windows one?Two firewalls can cause problems if run at the same time. Which program told you to reboot? If you downloaded (and lost) all the above programs I would be inclined to dowload one at a time and run it. This could enable you to trace which is caudsing the problem.