Peteff
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| posted on 29/4/05 at 12:07 PM |
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about:blank hijacker
A friend of mine has this on his computer and couldn't use the internet because of it. I've told him to download firefox for browsing but
it was opening .dll files and causing virus alerts when he opened windows explorer so I formatted his computer and it was o.k. but now it's
back. He's running ME, anyone know of an easy cure for it?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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James
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| posted on 29/4/05 at 12:22 PM |
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Symantec have a bunch of downloadable virus removal tools. Have a poke around there.
After that it's a case of decent scanner and regular updates.
HTH,
James
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
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Kitlooney1000
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| posted on 29/4/05 at 12:26 PM |
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problem is symantec products were designed to run on any other OS than Windows,they cause to many conflictions and can slow your PC down, best one
IMHO is McAfee,
Doesnt matter what Sh*t life throws at you, there is always some other poor bugger worse off!!!!!
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flak monkey
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| posted on 29/4/05 at 12:41 PM |
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I will also vote for McAfee over Symantec. My McAfee has died now (well over 2 yrs old) and i am running symantec until i get the new McAfee. Symantec
is crap in comparision....
Do a search for the file name on mcafee.com here:
http://uk.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?cid=9339
And it will tell you what to do to remove it.
Cheers,
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Peteff
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| posted on 29/4/05 at 01:51 PM |
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Can't find anything about it on there. Looks like another format for it. I'll put him a firewall on before it goes back next time.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 29/4/05 at 04:10 PM |
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Should be no need to format but don't install Norton it is notorious for slowing PCs to crawl. McAffee is better but out on the net is a whole
bunch of free tools.
The main ones new need are
Free-AV http://www.free-av.com/
HiJackThiis (all one word) http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
StartupList http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Lavasoft Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoft.com/
You will also need a firewall I strongly recommend Keriio 2.14 or 2.15 (NOT the latest 4.1.x version of Kerio it is buggy and bloated) Kerio 2.14
can be found here http://castlecops.com/downloads-cat-5.html
After you download the before you do anything you have to turn off Windows system restore -- how this done varies between Windows versions but for Me
To disable Windows Me System Restore:
1. Click Start, point to “Settings”, and then click “Control Panel”.
2. Double-click the “System” icon. The System Properties dialog box appears.
NOTE: If the System icon is not visible, click "View all Control Panel options" to display it.
3. Click the “Performance” tab, and then click “File System”.
4. Click the “Troubleshooting” tab, and then check “Disable System Restore”.
[Edited on 29/4/05 by britishtrident]
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 29/4/05 at 04:30 PM |
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On mine the about:blank was caused by a program with a name something like "Search Assistant"
and could be uninstalled from the add remove programs in the control panel. I think thats why the virus scanners don't pick it up.
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Peteff
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| posted on 29/4/05 at 04:40 PM |
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I disabled the system restore and uninstalled search assistant last time but it was in registry and kept coming back under a different name even with
restore disabled, that's why it got formatted. It tries to install se.dll every time you start explorer and is so well embedded you can't
find all the registry entries.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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white130d
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| posted on 30/4/05 at 12:49 AM |
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Safe mode
can you do the spyware/adware/virus checks, while in safe mode? It keeps the un wanted's from running while you check...
D.
"There's only 2 things that money can't buy, and that's true love and home grown tomatos" Guy Clark
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flak monkey
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| posted on 30/4/05 at 09:23 AM |
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You can yeah. Some virus scanners (McAfee can anyway) come with the option to make a boot up disk. Which will run the virus scanner on boot up before
you even get to windows. Very handy....if not then you can still run them in safe mode usually.
David 
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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britishtrident
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| posted on 30/4/05 at 09:46 AM |
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A scan with StartupList is pretty essential for identifying malware processes that only run at start up.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Having fun at the moment clearing out the "Alertspy" scamware out of an elderly clients Win2Kpro Thinkpad -- it has a lot of oddball
software on so identifying the bad stuff is like walking on egg shells.
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