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| Thread ID: 50831 | 2004-11-03 02:57:00 | adware- again | effie C (772) | Press F1 |
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| 287329 | 2004-11-06 23:45:00 | Hi Godfather, that must be a very suitable name, as you come to my aid, yet again ;-) Anyay, fascetious comments aside, I asume I must search for media tickets.exe ? In reading near my bedtime, last night, the "small print" ( details) of the yet another scan, it says, I have "no files infected but one at risk"- if I ignore that "at risk"warning am I asking for trouble or should I keep looking? assuming in my cynical way that mediatickets does NOT come up. I could so do as long say so!--- I have updated every spyware/spybot etc that I use in case the update worked anyway- not that it did any good :-( Anyway thank you for what you have done for me over time effie c |
effie C (772) | ||
| 287330 | 2004-11-07 00:06:00 | Did you turn off XP's System Restore as already mentioned? Viruses/trojans get included in System Restore files which were created when you still had the infection. Even if the virus/trojan is no longer actively infective on your machine, AV programs will still detect the presence of it in a Restore point, but they cannot remove or quarantine it from within this file. Did Norton give a file path to where this object was detected? If it shows _restore as part of the file path, then turning off System Restore, rebooting and then re-enabling it will purge it for good. |
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| 287331 | 2004-11-07 00:07:00 | Hi Godfather,again, for what it is worth I searched for "mediatickets.exe and foung nothing--- am I entering the right name or as the Nortons report said this CDT adware could be part of a program- if so, how can I possibly find that? Could I go back and systems restore say a month ( I do my antivirus scan once a month as my CPU is too slow ( 4 hours 44 mins for 134998 files) Or as I asked in my posy of a few minutes ago, am I being paranoid? effie c |
effie C (772) | ||
| 287332 | 2004-11-07 00:55:00 | Hi Jen c, I did not see your post untill I came back into F1 just now---to say I found newsmedia.exe, only by using "reg seeker" ( there was nothing found in a normal search as I said to Godfather, but ironically I ran the above mentioned, found the file- ran a Nortons scan and yet again , even after deleting newsmedia- was the same virus found- so I shudder to think what my deleting News Media will do to mt computer life ;-( O K I would be crass to not try and turn off systems restore and reboot- so here goes :-) Thanks effie c |
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| 287333 | 2004-11-07 02:01:00 | Hi Jen c and Godfather etc ., Nope ! I turned systems restore off, rebooted and scanned again --- there it is ---again -My beloved wife is getting towie- "just ignore it" ----ha ! I would be that lucky ! Now I cannot go back - way back, to see when I might have caught the infection- pity. I do know it was not there in my usual 1 st day of the month, programmed scan.0f a month ago To recap, all search and destroy programs have been updated and used - with no success, so it cannot be their fault, and as Godfather said it was news media- which has now also been deleted and found no gain. Help !!!! any more offerings? :-( effie c |
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