virus trouble

[RabBell]

I think I've got a virus and it's p*****g me off, some help would be great

Every 10 mins I get an IE pop up box (whether it's open or not) telling me the web page I've requested is unavailable offline and asking do I want to connect or work offline. I'm not asking it to connect to a page and this keeps happening every 10 mins, it's driving me nuts.

I have the latest Norton and AVG and having run both they delete the trojan they find however it seems to have replicated itself and the whole problem happens again

help....please :(

[andr.in]

I use nod32.. it has all kinds of internet protections and stuff and it was rated the highest in all categories like.. scanning speed, detecting viruses and live protection. And I also have zonealarm... It blocks like ~1000 intrusions a day... oh and I use firefox too ;)
Also search for unnecessary, strange things under your processes and see if you can disable some in the startup tab in msconfig (run->msconfig).
If you find some then you can look them up here: http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/
and see if it's a trojan or some kind of windows thing. And MSN can mess your pc up pretty well too... I've had lots and lots of spyware come in through msn... now i use trillian ;)
Also after a reboot, watch your cpu usage closely and start up each program one by one (msn, then ie, etc) and see where the cpu usage starts acting weird on idle. I've had many times where after running MSN messenger the cpu usage rose up to 100% on idle, and the problem that did this was hidden in a svchost.exe, but MSN triggered it so I just ahd to reinstall msn.

Stuff like that ;)

[RabBell]

thanks syko

I downloaded the trial version of Nod32, quite good even thinking about buying the full version

I ran the checker and found another trojan but I ended up disabling IE cause the message just kept coming. I use Mozilla anyway so no big loss. I looked through the processes and registry and couldn't find anything suspicous so I just removed some old apps I didn't use anymore, blocked IE using my firewall as well as disabling IE and that seems to have solved it

thanks for the help :thumb:

[teet]

I have the latest Norton and AVG and having run both they delete the trojan they find however it seems to have replicated itself and the whole problem happens again

You have two anitivirus programs installed at the same time? That usually doesn't work out so well. I would first advise removing one of them.

Then boot into safe mode. Right click on my computer, left click on properties. Click on the system restore tab, and disable your system restore. Empty all your temporary internet files in IE and Firefox and then run a full system scan with your antivirus program.

Head over to http://housecall.antivirus.com and run their free scan.

Google "stinger" and download it from Macaffee and run stinger while still in safe mode.

Download adaware and "spybot search and destroy" from http://www.download.com and scan your system while still in safe mode.

After all that, reboot into normal windows mode and see if you still have problems.

Also please refer to spyware/virus sticky in computer and games forum.

-teet

[RabBell]

You have two anitivirus programs installed at the same time? That usually doesn't work out so well. I would first advise removing one of them.

yeah I know its only the free version of AVG so it's coming off soon. Thanks for the tip on spybot, very handy to have :thumb:

[firegambler]

Pest patrol also detects lots of stuff like spyware, adware, ...

check it out (http://www.pestpatrol.com/)

[RabBell]

help....

I've got rid of the AVG, Norton & Nod32 virus scanners and am using McAfee virus scanner and they all say the same thing...virus removed

however every 10-15 mins I keep getting this f**king message asking me to connect or work offline. It's driving me nuts cause I've looked at the processes and can't see which one it may be. I thought it was iTunes but it wasn't.

I've tried Spybot, 4 virus checkers and HijackThis. I'm downloading pest patrol to see if that helps but does anyone have any more ideas to find out what is causing this. I think i'd be able to ignore it but if I'm using a program set to maximise this minimizes it to show me the message

help :(

[Byrnzie]

backup all important files to cd or other removeable storage then format