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| Thread ID: 54245 | 2005-02-07 19:17:00 | Toolbar troubles | Anbarbara (7185) | Press F1 |
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| 322523 | 2005-02-07 19:17:00 | Hi, This week has been spectacular in terms of the immense evils of toolbars. It began on my own, when a trojan was triggered by a download that although I had checked its source and honesty before obtaining, proved to be something else entirely. It set off a chain of events that took over my machine and linked it to a greater network doing something truely horridable. It has since been dealt with by getting a whole new set of firewall, antivirus spyware and adware programs and installing them. I now have two sets, One on stand-by to use to overcome the next attack and one set working. The trojan had managed to write itself into my machine and hide from the ones on and working. I had the lot. It problem has come originally with the google toolbar, it seemed to have been in three parts the finaly part came with the download and hey ho. Next my neighbour called to say her machine seemd to be running extremely slow and she thought her daughter had done something. Yes, she had, the lass had fallen prey to a wide variety of nifty toolbars from goggle to yahoo to a few others and was using the msn toolbar and website. She had amassed 306 trojans, spy ware bits, a virus and all the rest. Again, a complete new set of backup antivirus, spyware, adware, firewall a complete ban on toolbars and no MSN ever. These trojans dig themselves deeply into the registry, I still do not think I have really got rid of them and other than formatting the harddrive, which is extreme and a nuisance in terms of saving files and so on, what can I do to be sure the registry is free from reinfection? |
Anbarbara (7185) | ||
| 322524 | 2005-02-07 19:33:00 | Hi Anbarbara Do every thing in the FAQ above to get rid of virus and spyware. jv16 powertools will help you clean up your reg, or completly nail your comp so be carefull. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 322525 | 2005-02-07 19:44:00 | A couple of good programs to help detect spyware trying to install . Spyware blaster www.javacoolsoftware.com Windows AntiSpyware www.microsoft.com To get rid of extra toolbars in xp open Ie click tools then Manage addons or use toolbarcop www.mvps.org hth |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 322526 | 2005-02-07 20:57:00 | Spyware is a major problem on Windows computers and is causing major problems for a huge number of people. Even those that are aware of the problems that it can cause have trouble keeping their systems clean even if they have taken some precautions such as a firewall and running spyware programs. New and devious ways of getting malware onto Windows systems are appearing all the time and there does not seem to be any easy solution to the problem. There is such a variety of programs available now to try and prevent and remove infections and no one program will remove them all which adds to the confusion. Good article here - for experts only. www.michaelhorowitz.com More general information here. www.pcworld.com |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 322527 | 2005-02-09 08:58:00 | Many thanks for the information. It has been a big help and I have now sent copies off to a firend who has just fallen victim to a trojan like I had, and He is really struggling to find a way around it. AT the moment he is trying to work out how to start in safe mode and fix the problems without having to format his hard drive. Its a learning curve ... :cool: |
Anbarbara (7185) | ||
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