Malware/Virus alert

David · Mar 03, 2011, 17:28:25

Here

endeth the 55th lesson

Rik · Mar 03, 2011, 17:31:59

Let us pray...

David · Mar 03, 2011, 17:47:11

Niall · Mar 03, 2011, 21:42:56

Just thought I'd point out that this is the thing that infected my aunts laptop, that resulted in me spending 10 hours cleaning it. Addblock & Avast is the way forward! Oh and on that subject I mentioned the Avast false positives the other day, and it seems they fixed that in the update yesterday/today (not sure which).

Oh, and Rik, I installed that PSI that you always go on about. That is one REALLY hand program!

I tried it on my mums system last night and it detected LOADS of redundant files that hadn't come off on uninstalls.

Simon · Mar 03, 2011, 23:49:26

PSI?

john · Mar 04, 2011, 01:05:14

Quote from: Simon on Mar 03, 2011, 23:49:26
PSI?

I wondered what it is too, is it this ?

David · Mar 04, 2011, 09:45:07

Its a late night cop show isn't it? this all very informative and it really amazed me how it worked.to make double sure I did a final boot check and to be honest that machine flew last night so fast I don't think I have ever known it to be so fast..... with all this though Avast and all the others (thanks Rik I downloaded the MSE on the Dell last night but turned off Avast as I thought they may conflict so when do you think it will conflict?
Interesting subject though

Simon · Mar 04, 2011, 09:54:28

Quote from: john on Mar 04, 2011, 01:05:14
I wondered what it is too, is it this ?

If it is, it looks quite good. Funny, I can't recall Rik mentioning it before.

Rik · Mar 04, 2011, 10:42:55

Quote from: Simon on Mar 03, 2011, 23:49:26
PSI?

Quote from: john on Mar 04, 2011, 01:05:14
I wondered what it is too, is it this ?

It is. Highly recommended.

Ray · Mar 04, 2011, 11:15:41

Seconded, especially the latest version which now automatically finds security patches and installs them.

Rik · Mar 04, 2011, 11:20:27

Even though it usually picks an inconvenient time to do it.

Ray · Mar 04, 2011, 11:27:15

This is very true, Rik.

Niall · Mar 04, 2011, 21:52:14

Speaking of virus issues. Today I was clearing out old bookmarks and stumbled across my idnet blog that I hadn't used since the day I set it up, and avast went nuts saying there was a virus on there and wouldn't load the page. I've reported it to idnet just in case, but for all I know it's avast having more false positives again!

David · Mar 04, 2011, 22:04:48

Out of interest Niall what do you run Avast with or alongside ?

Niall · Mar 04, 2011, 22:24:02

Oh god, now you're asking.

Avast V6
spyware blaster
Spybot (these two are mainly there for IE as I've got Firefox set so they're unneeded)
Ccleaner
O&O defrag 14 (full version)
Superantispyware (paid version)
Comodo system cleaner
PSI

I know they're all for different things, but all told they keep things defragged and virus/malware/spyware free

Avast was reporting false positives the other day in Office 2010 (on installing it on a fresh format/install of the O/S - Win 7 64bit), but stopped after an update, but as I got this today I'd have thought that it's more likely to be a false positive than a virus IDnet haven't spotted on their servers

Lance · Mar 04, 2011, 22:34:28

On my home machines I just run avast along side the windows firewall. I also run malwarebytes every couple of weeks or so.

David · Mar 04, 2011, 22:42:08

I only twigged yesterday that or what Malwarebytes was and what it did exactly good learning curve for me

Niall · Mar 05, 2011, 01:35:59

Oh yeah, and malware bytes

For some reason there's no icon when I set it to small font. There is for the three default sizes, but in titchy mode it's an unnamed file icon.

john · Mar 07, 2011, 01:26:24

Avast flagged up a 'trojan horse' yesterday but said it was unable to remove it. I tried Ccleaner which deleted a lot of files in my 'temporary internet' folder but after clearing it out more files were being copied into it. Ran Ccleaner again which cleared them out but then kept re-appearing. Went into taks manager and deleted some processes I didn't recognize (I think several were 'ew<something>.exe') but they also started to re-appear. I managed to finally stop them by navigating to my 'temporary' folder and deleting everything in there then rebooting the laptop.