Virus Issues

[Anonymous]

Trend Micro, they dont take too much memory and usage. Oh, and I would recommend using Mozilla Firefox then Internet Explorer. Cheers!

[Anonymous]

Firefox is no less immune to viruses than Explorer.  I have used both and got viruses on both.

Down load Malewarebytes Anti Virus (free version) from Malewarebytes.org.  Very good at finding viruses. 

It got rid of the Antivirus2008 I had when nothing else would.

[Anonymous]

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Symantec has a removal tool. If it doesn't work first time, boot-up in safe mode and run it again.

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Here 

[Anonymous]

Hi llecs!

About 6-8 weeks ago, I had a Trojan that my McAfee VirusScan couldn't remove.  I contacted McAfee, and a technical representative remotely accessed my computer.  He successfully removed the Trojan.  McAfee was also nice enough to waive the usual $89.95 service fee, given their Internet Security Suite software was unable to remove the Trojan.

I believe that Norton also has a similar service.  Do you think that they also might be kind enough not to charge you to have your virus removed?

[llecs]

Thanks for the suggestions, guys!

To give an update, I have/had Vundo, FakeVirus, and another called Sheuj2 or something like that. None of these were picked up by Norton. Norton only caught Vundo after I installed AVG.

I ran scan after scan after scan on Norton and AVG. Just when I though everything was clean, I connected back to the internet after a couple days and two dlls began to appear everywhere: Mutelupo.dll and jeniguju.dll. Mutelupo was very prolific. It attached itself to every single window process. In fact, hardly anything would run in Windows XP. AVG was able to clean it and after a day today of fighting it, I think it is clean again.

Question is, how did it get infected. I don't surf the web. I do admit trying to connect to someone else's unsecured network when we were out of town recently. Could a virus have been there?

[Anonymous]

Prolly via an email from someone or piggybacked on a file attachment. Web search on the viri names should tell you how they are most frequently transmitted. I take spells of getting a half dozen virus alerts each day from Avast. Then, I'll go for days without any. I think email is the number one point of entry for most machines.

Yes, the network could have been corrupt. There are people who set up open networks in public places to lure you in.

Are you up-to-date on all the Microsoft patches for your copy of XP?