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| 322689 | 2005-02-08 08:40:00 | our internet connection seems to have been hijacked by spybots and adware. We have totally wiped and done a fresh installl of windows today and within half an hour of reconnecting to the internet Adaware detected over 100 spybots/adware! Winpatrol keeps coming up telling me something called navprotect.exe wants to join my startup menu. I did a search and deleted but it came straight back up, surprise surprise help if you can please (win xp) |
kaliyuga (6711) | ||
| 322690 | 2005-02-08 08:49:00 | hey there run spybot (security.kolla.de/)and adaware (http:). to delete navprotect.exe try hijack this (www.spychecker.com) and do you have a antivirus program? if not get AVG (http://www.grisoft.com) |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 322691 | 2005-02-08 08:53:00 | First of all, have you got a firewall installed? At a minimum, you should make sure XP's inbuilt firewall is activated for the time being. What Antivirus program do you have and have you updated it? | Jen (38) | ||
| 322692 | 2005-02-08 08:55:00 | we have avg, unfortunately it was a while before we could download the updates and get it running, just about to do a scan have used both spybot, adaware, noadware today and deleted the things it found |
kaliyuga (6711) | ||
| 322693 | 2005-02-08 08:58:00 | make sure they are all up to date otherwise they are useless. if you dont have a firewall i recommend you use Zonealarm (http://www.zonelabs.com), its free too :) | Prescott (11) | ||
| 322694 | 2005-02-08 09:08:00 | yes they are all up to date I am surprised the xp firewall doesn't automaticallly come on when you install windows xp! have remedied that now avg has detected 7 viruses already will try the zone alarm thanx for that |
kaliyuga (6711) | ||
| 322695 | 2005-02-08 09:23:00 | Where are you getting all the viruses from, and what were they. How did you manage to get so many so fast. | Safari (3993) | ||
| 322696 | 2005-02-08 09:36:00 | I wish I knew we are under attack! have just run trend sysclean but it only found one called worm-wootbot.er i'll try the hijack program now avg found several downloader trojans |
kaliyuga (6711) | ||
| 322697 | 2005-02-08 10:05:00 | we have avg, unfortunately it was a while before we could download the updates and get it running, just about to do a scan have used both spybot, adaware, noadware today and deleted the things it found I would suggest you remove noadware as there are many reports like this one of if being ineffective. NoAdware is a controversial product. It is heavily advertised on the internet as an effective adware removal tool. Our tests indicate differently however. We uncovered a product that was unable to detect real adware on our computer, and instead tried to fool us with "false positives". Unfortunately, some of the adware programs it claimed to detect were actually operating system files and legitimate software, |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 322698 | 2005-02-08 10:07:00 | Well I would start from scratch again. Download the latest AVG and SP2, burn them to a disk if you can. Format and reinstall a fresh, before you connect up make sure you have applied SP2, and have a fire wall running. I would not normally say format and go again but you say you did this fresh today and got infected straight away, so while it's working grab all the software you need so you will be fully protected when you start again. [Edit]It will take an hour or two to set up again, but many more hours to fix the problems you are reporting. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
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