Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 My laptop is getting attacked by minging virus' and spyware!! It keeps opening internet explorer pages directing my to spy ware prevent software, it added itself to my favourites list, it changed my wallpaper on my desktop, icon keep flashing in the bottom right hand corner and its slowed my computer right down!!! HELP!!! What do I do????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Try this to begin with. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx Probably just spyware. Annoying but not the end of the world. Assume you have some sort of anti-virus software installed that is set to auto update? Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 Try this to begin with. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx Probably just spyware. Annoying but not the end of the world. Assume you have some sort of anti-virus software installed that is set to auto update? Guy I have AVG currently but and am currently running a scan but its taking ages as the thingy keeps opening loads of pages.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I think there's a way to stop that while your trying to fix it. I'll have a look for info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 I think there's a way to stop that while your trying to fix it. I'll have a look for info. Appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Do you know how to edit your registry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 Do you know how to edit your registry? I don't know how to resize an avatar so registry editing may be beyond me I have regcure on my laptop i think is that anything to do with it? I have downloaded the defender programme and am currently scanning to find the little bastards!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 I'll try to keep this as basic as possible Click Start, Run. Type regedit and click ok. The regedit application will open. On the left of the screen will be 5 "links" listed under "My Computer". Click on each on of these in sequence. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows NT>CurrentVersion>Winlogon You're only looking for info here so don't worry about stuffing it up. In the window on the right find where it says shell. Should be 8th from the bottom. What's the data value? (thrid column) Should be Explorer.exe and nothing else. What does it say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 Yeah it says explorer.exe but its not the 8th entry its about the 30th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 But it is about 8th from the bottom. How's defender doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Your not on Vista are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 Your not on Vista are you? No, XP pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Good. Do you have any search engine things installed like the google bar? If you do go to control panel, add remove programs and uninstall them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 But it is about 8th from the bottom. How's defender doing? Yes your quite right. Downloaded defender and am running a full scan. It has been running for 25 mins so far and scanned 8000 files. AVG scan is also still running for the last 1 hr 25 mins also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 Good. Do you have any search engine things installed like the google bar? If you do go to control panel, add remove programs and uninstall them. Okey dokey. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Apart from slowing your pc down adware tends to be let in by them. Once your scans are finished go here and click scan your pc now. You'll probably have to enter a valid email address. It should remove any virus' (if any) and will tell you about any spyware it finds. http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/ ... ctivescan/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 Apart from slowing your pc down adware tends to be let in by them. Once your scans are finished go here and click scan your pc now. You'll probably have to enter a valid email address. It should remove any virus' (if any) and will tell you about any spyware it finds. http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/ ... ctivescan/? Cheers mate Should i wait for both scans to finish before doing this?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 May as well wait. Will give me a chance to get back to watching american pie the wedding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 May as well wait. Will give me a chance to get back to watching american pie the wedding. I hate waiting!!!! I assume that these scans should identify the perpertraitors???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Although defender is a Microsoft product it is fairly good. I've heard good things about the panda scan. It should be fast too. It's the kind of thing you run when you know you've a virus on your pc. Most intelligent virus' will disable any anti-virus software you have installed leaving you up @*!# creek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 Got all three on the go now................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Let me know the results. Have to pack it in. Need at least a few hours sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 I love my Mac sorry guys not helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted August 29, 2007 Author Share Posted August 29, 2007 Waited till nearly 2am but the searches were still going so i left them and went to bed. Got up this morning and the AVG and Defender searches were complete but both said that no threats were found The panda one is still going and has detected 58 spyware files. To 'disinfect' these files it takes me to a page where i have to pay £8? Is that right? I'm wary about putting my cc details into anything at the moment........... Can one shed any further light pleeeeeese......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterfield Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 EDIT: - run these first to clean up your system... As well as antivirus - you may want to try the following couple of free tools - they are pretty good at removing some of the non-virus bugs that make it onto your PC. Lavasofts Ad-aware: http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html Spybot search and destroy (version 1.4 on the following link): http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html They will also probably pick up a few cookies that you can decide if you still need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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