Author Topic: Spyware help (Read 36164 times)

[BTF]Sigma · « **Reply #60 on:** September 08, 2007, 12:09:12 PM »

So far I have renamed the mysterious msnmsg.exe to msnmsg.exe.bak and rebooted. No more pop ups in the last little bit and I have been able to delete that *.bak file from my system32 folder with no hitches, yet. Mcaffee even recognized I use firefox now and has installed it's site advisor plugin. Before it never recognized it...probably b/c the bitch file I had was blinding it.

Hopefully now I'm gonna be protected.

So uh, who's got linux I can get?

reaper · « **Reply #61 on:** September 08, 2007, 01:56:11 PM »

Sigma for the win!

[BTF]Sigma · « **Reply #62 on:** September 08, 2007, 02:02:47 PM »

Still clear so hopefully it's been nixed.

Thanks for the assistance.

PANTONE 7717C · « **Reply #63 on:** September 08, 2007, 05:04:43 PM »

Oh, okay that's good. I see you've deleted that thing because C:\windows\system32\msnmsg.exe of course is spyware.

nvm

jägermonsta · « **Reply #64 on:** September 11, 2007, 08:01:04 AM »

What do people think the very best spyware removal software is out there? Free or not free...

Whirlingdervish · « **Reply #65 on:** September 11, 2007, 09:50:45 AM »

the Windows XP pro installation CD FTW!

That'll settle any virus's hash.
Just wipe the partitions and reinstall.

jägermonsta · « **Reply #66 on:** September 11, 2007, 09:53:31 AM »

lol well yeah. some guy here is completely infested. I did the best I could with free software and without wasting my time by manually deleting keys and such. told him 2 weeks ago the best bet is for us to reinstall the OS. given updates / installation and such it will take over 4 hours. doesn't want to give up his computer for 4 hours though. figure there may be something out there that's better then what I was using.

[BTF]Sigma · « **Reply #67 on:** September 11, 2007, 12:10:03 PM »

I really do like the McAfee products. They don't dig themselves in as hard as Norton does (afaik).

They offer all types of options and it makes it easy for a basic user like myself to navigate and setup my protection. (heh, yeah I know I was recently infected but that's because I neglected to tie in McAfee to Firefox and Torrents so that it scans any files I am downloading before I can access them.) There is a great spam filter as part of it and I really like it's interface.

A lot of the free Virus software offer purchasable upgrades, right? So, in my opinion, I'd rather buy a full program one off than run a "demo" of it.

Art · « **Reply #68 on:** September 17, 2007, 10:25:26 PM »

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jägermonsta · « **Reply #69 on:** September 18, 2007, 05:24:45 AM »

Thanks Art. I'll give it a shot the next time some idiot is getting popups.

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #70 on:** September 18, 2007, 06:33:42 AM »

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jägermonsta · « **Reply #71 on:** September 18, 2007, 06:37:18 AM »

Uhh they all pretty much take an hour to run.

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #72 on:** September 18, 2007, 06:46:43 AM »

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jägermonsta · « **Reply #73 on:** September 18, 2007, 07:24:50 AM »

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DWxchzrles · « **Reply #74 on:** September 18, 2007, 07:29:07 AM »

just finished spybot search & destroy 13 minutes and 12 seconds

do you have the latest version?

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