Nebula

I admit I have been downlaoding misc. things very freely and not noticing what I put on my hard drive so I guess it serves me right. Early this morning my computer started acting up and the little system tray in the bottom right corner start blinking with lights and what not telling me to buy their spyware scanning program and all that. Well, I didn't believe the virus alert until I started getting a huge amount of pop-ups then more and then they started coming very soon after one another and didn't stop.

I downloaded Ad-Aware and scanned, still all screwy. I downloaded and installed Spyware Doctor and it scanned, found like 500 infections so I deleted them all but I was still getting numerous pop-ups and constant auto-matic scanning for virus alters and all that. So I installed Norton and it scanned and found quite a few infections so I deleted them all and my computer started coming back to normal speed.

It took me several hours to finally get it back to the speed it always goes at. Anyways, but still I am getting constant alerts from spyware doctor to do a quike scan because it detected a virus, also Norton keeps showing me another virus detection and asking me if it can scan the HDD and so on. It's very annoying because things form norton and spyware doctor keep poping up, nowmy computer is running at normal speed and all just I know somethings still in their because I get alerts out da wazoo. I'ts almost as if I have some open port in my computer thta is just letting things in and stuff. The internet shuts down for half a second every about 10 minutes or so. So obviously not all the viruss or spyware are gone...Any ideas?

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Prm753

Did you run all of your anti-crapware stuff in safe mode? Did you run CWShredder and about:Buster in safe mode? Do you have a firewall installed? Did you get a HijackThis log and examine it or have the experts at SpywareInfo.com examine it? All things to consider.

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BlazingWolf

Do you have a firewall running on your computer?

Are you run any kind of hosting items, like Apache, IIS ect?

Is your virus scan fully update?

Try using HiJack This! and post on some tech support forums there is almost always excepts at reading the HiJack logs.

You might also try Spybot S&D.

Or you could go the easy way and reformat.

*EDIT: Clearly great minds thing alike*

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I intend to keep my current Windows setup.

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jayme

You should see the spyware shit I have on my computer. It's practically begging me to click on its links, every 20 minutes or so a popup comes up saying "You're computer is infected, please visit ..... to fix teh problem." I'm serious, it says "teh", lol. If they want to make a successful virus, might want to make it look like a successful spyware remover.

What's even worse is that I can't reset my computer even though my computer is being slowed down insanely, because my last day of registration was about... 4 days ago. If I even log out for a second, poof goes my computer and all my files... I better make a backup...

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zorin

If you have deleted all the viruses so far I recommend getting the malicious software removal tool from microsoft available here. Scan your entire hard disk for any infections. If you detect some kind of a rootkit your problly better of reformating because there 'hell' trying to get rid of them.

You should also close off all your programs that have internet access, then go to the commmand prompt and type in "netstat -n" without the quotes. If you see somthing like forgien address TCP 6667 then you know your some kind of bot on a IRC server or if you see TCP 21 then you have FTP access to or from your box. After that check "netstat -an" without the quotes again and see what connections start by default, you might see a connection to TCP 6667 with the IP address aswell, then you know your defentily infected. You might also want to check out rootkit reaveler from here , It will detect anything released to rootkit.com where most rootkit development takes place and it also a really useful tool that I use regually. Also check your processes in the task manager if you can still access it. If you find anything your not sure of in the processes list you can check the name of that process here. Thats about it really...if you find a specific infection tell me here and ill see what I can do to help you out.

Booooze

All good points. I would recommend Trend-Micro Housecall online virus scan (its free), and i use Spybot S&D, but I hear bulletproofspyware is the best out there. Supposedly catches a lot more. Run everything through safemode, and manually check your registry and msconfig for start/run entries.

Arevos

Out of interest; registration for what?

Jimbo

I'd bet for Windows... which is why we should register things on time...

Wilheimer

I guess I have been lucky so far as I have not had any major spyware infestations or viruses that I haven't been able to clean (at least that I know of), probably due to the fact that I have Dial up service. Thanks to all the malicious code writers, spammers and spyware. I spend a great deal of time on my computer updating the anti-spyware programs, anti-virus programs and downloading security updates for Windows. When I am not doing that I am sorting through email and deleting spam then running scans. At this rate, before long, I won't have time to do anything else. :mad: