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virus sends spam via web form??
Posted on September 14th, 2005 | 3 Comments

for a short time I recieve senseless emails sent via a form on my web page. the form is processed by a php script and the data is sent to an email account. a closer look at the log files shows that...

Can't download grisoft updates!
Posted on September 14th, 2005 | 7 Comments

if i'm inside the program, it has no option for updating from the Internet. It keeps asking me to find the update inside a folder on my hard drive. Well, if I cannot download, how am I supposed to...

CoolWebSearch Infection
Posted on September 13th, 2005 | 2 Comments

My computer was just infected with CoolWebSearch. CoolWebShredder didn't work, it didn't even detect the infection, let alone remove it. I tried AdAware, but that didn't work. I then tried to boot...

Extensions
Posted on September 13th, 2005 | 8 Comments

..exe ..pif ..bat ..scr (seems to add /S argument) ..com ..cmd any idea of other extensions which lead to the execution of MZ executables ?

advice given here on Grisoft AVG worked, thanks
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 0 Comments

enabled me to update my Grisoft from internet -- i had been trapped in stupid situation where it refused to update, saying that updates had to come from folders. i cannot believe there was even such...

Can you explain what's going on?
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi: I had a serious problem early this morning. Somehow, "something" put in a bogus ISP in the dial up networking. Some other garbage caused the computer to make a call as soon as it was turned...

trojan Horse Downloader a question
Posted on September 11th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi My AVG free edition found a virus called trojan horse downloader,generic.dvf. File name is vtrup.dll and the path is C/WINDOWS/system 32/ It deleted and healed the file and put it in the virus...

Re: Crashing Win XP
Posted on September 11th, 2005 | 0 Comments

"Sugien" <sugien@horizonview.net> wrote in message news:... ***CnP from my own help files I created (read: mine I composed it from scratch; but I doubt if I am the first to know about it)*** To...

grobot
Posted on September 11th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Does it exist a trojan name Drop.Grobot.1 ? What is it? Where i can found information ? thx , regards

Scanning spyware infested install files
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 0 Comments

This site lists quite a number of infested programs: http://kppfree.altervista.org/spylist.htm Not all of the programs listed were available for download from the urls given, but I was able to...

Problem Reinstalling Norton
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I uninstalled Norton AV 2002--which required Symantec's Removal Utility to get the job done. (I uninstalled due to issues with Live Update and then modified the registry according to Norton's manual...

Norton or AVG?
Posted on September 10th, 2005 | 16 Comments

I'm running Norton AV 2002 on my wife's new Win XP Pro notebook. Yes, I've followed the discussion here about Norton 2002 with Live Update probably working as effectively as newer Norton products....

ie3.proxy.aol.com
Posted on September 9th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Genuine site or enemy? Mike

Top 10 Virus Report
Posted on September 9th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hello, I am trying to create a report of the top 10 viruses detected by antivirus software. I was wondering if anyone would know the log file format for Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro and if you...

What AV program to check mbr from cd?
Posted on September 8th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi, I am looking for a antivirus program which will run from a cd to check the mbr at the cmd prompt. The reason is that after installing an OS, XP, the screen is blank and nothing is available, so...

HELP ..Virus sets video Adapter speed much higher than the monitor can support and video crash
Posted on September 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Virus sets video Adapter speed much higher than the monitor can support and the video crash This virus is really nasty looks like this virus overwrite the boots sector of the hard disk this is more...

Why So Many Criticisms of McAfee?
Posted on September 8th, 2005 | 9 Comments

I've been wanting to ask this for a long time, and I hope this doesn't start a firestorm, but I'm curious as to why I see so many criticisms of McAfee (non-Enterprise) on these two newsgroups, and in...

Newer Mytob variant
Posted on September 7th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Received a variant via email of what Kaspersky calls Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.bi Three different emails with different zip attachments got through my ISP's malware blocking (I think they use a Symantec...

First Sygate, now Kerio
Posted on September 7th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Here: http://forums.kerio.com/index.php?t=msg&th=7040&start=0&S=87a76357fa565eb8998b4e93472fa6fb or if line wraps then here: http://makeashorterlink.com/?R20C13BBB Art http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

Can trojan, EliteBar for example, survive disk formating ?
Posted on September 6th, 2005 | 6 Comments

my friend found pokapoka63 started in a processes so I found that it's probably trojan, EliteBar. He wants to format and install XP again because 1. the machine was slow even before trojan 2 from now...