Malware Attack!

minduka · October 6th, 2004, 02:09 AM

hey guys, I am really pissed off right now.

I can't belive what is happening to my computer. I've got Ad-Watch and McFee Anti-virus on and I still got infected and my registry modified by stupid adware and malware. I get 10000 ad-watch warnings and 10,000 pop-ups. I got right off all that fortunatelly but there is something that doesn't go away. I get stupid links on any internet page they are mostly from (http://begin2search.com). For example all words like "dating" or "personal" are hyperlinked to their stupid site. I tried to use hijackit but it doesn't go away, i deleted the reg keys but it keeps comming back, of course i checked under installed programs, nothing. Isn't there something to remove all this trash? I'm willing to even pay $100 for such software. I am PISSED

One more quesiton: Would a firewall stop adware and malware? because ad-watch is crap.

filipino · October 6th, 2004, 02:12 AM

hmmm using PC-Ciliin Internet Security with combo Spyware Blaster, Lavasoft Adaware SE and Spybot Search And distroy, plus using 3rd party browser Mozilla Firefox www.mozilla.org will help you keep out of those spyware, malware etc.

nochay · October 6th, 2004, 02:13 AM

Have you run spybot s&d, and Adware? both of these are pretty good at deleting the virus you got slammed with. If all else fails, you might be looking at a format.

Dane

minduka · October 6th, 2004, 02:22 AM

filipino, how PC-Ciliin? worth the money?

i'll have to try spyware blaster and spybot. ill post the results

thanks for the replies

filipino · October 6th, 2004, 02:30 AM

yes for internet security PC-Cillin Internet Security worth the money i been using PC-Cillin Internet Security for like since it came out and so far so good no viruses, spam mail etc. and always updated on virus pattern and it will not suck your system resource

of course you will need to have those anti-spyware software like adaware, spyware blaster and spybot search and destroy, this 3 anti-spyware utilities are free.

you can try 30 day trial of PC-Cillin Internet Security
http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/personal.htm

and also make sure to download Mozilla Firefox www.mozilla.org use this browser instead of MS IE.

minduka · October 6th, 2004, 02:42 AM

Lavasoft Adware isn't very good with malware or what? I found 73 problems with spybot. but the problem of the words in all webpages being hyperlinked keeps annoying me.

Edit: Is there a way to make spywareblaster to work in the system tray?

damn, that hyperlinking crap affects the text in this window too.

Edit: i updated spywareblaster and it's all gone. wow this program really kicks some ass.

ZeR0 · October 6th, 2004, 03:39 AM

Jeebus...

How people get into these prediciments both amazes and scares me.

lone1dog · October 6th, 2004, 04:08 AM

hey buddy run spybot,get the cleaner free trial and ccleaner run them all if they don't clean you up you probably just need to reformat.You;ll find all the links here http://www.techimo.com/forum/t114250.html

minduka · October 7th, 2004, 03:04 AM

finally got rid of all the crap. i think ill switch to firefox. thanks for the help

like always, i give five stars to the forum and its members

oh yeah, the link above was very helpful. thanks again