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Pop-up arrived soon after going to a link from Google search.
The pop-up gives an antivirus software alert, and windows security alerts. The alert pop-ups having spelling mistakes and look dodgey. It then asks if want to clean up these threats and takes me to a pay download site (US$).
P0rn and erectile dysfunction sites then start opening.
Looks like someone trying to scare me into paying for antivirus.
Is this common?
How's it fixed?
We pay for ESET NOD32 antivirus - but it obviously didn't stop this.
I've run spybot - but no good.
Suggestions please. Can't have the kids near the screen at the moment
Try restarting windows in 'safe mode' then run your spyware and anti-virus software again.
I also had this at the start of the week. Took me 3 evenings to rid the thing.
Basically all you need is [url= http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-av-security-suite ]AV Virus Suite removal[/url] You need to download rkill and also malware. BUT and this is what i had hassle with was the virus recognized rkill and was making itself delete itself on the scans!
I know a few who have had this over the past week. It can come from adobe downloads and also more common now facebook.
It was all the porno popups that got me.... and now i cant remember the addresses 😉
Good luck
Was it preventing StopZilla loading, and giving error codes?
Ta
interesting - earlier today windows told me mtbr wasn't a safe site and redirected me to my home page. didnt think anything of it and have used it since. I'll give it a wide berth for a little while
How do I restart IE in safe mode?
not IE windows! Restart your system then its something like F5 or F7 to enter Safe Mode hopefully someone with more brains and less alcohol on board than me will be along shortly. startin in safe prevents the program loading before anti virus can get to it
f8 and allow networking as you have to go online to download rkill and malmaware. What I dod was save on another computer and save onto a memory stick.
IF you allow networking and download onto youre pc containing the virus you have to go into internet options and click in LAN settings as it the virus also messes this up... Read the link I put up, its all in there. You will find it wont let you access sites saying av virus suite.
The worst bit is the scanning with malware as it took me approx 3hrs per scan.
See? told u someone clever would turn up 😀
I found that Combofix sorted my PC out when it was infected with an infuriating google redirect system - half my results would go astray to Ask.com and a load of other gubbins.
Various AV kit - Microsoft Security Essentials & Malware Bytes found stuff and removed it, but the problem continued. PrevX and Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal tool both gave the PC a clean bill of health.
Combofix found the problem (a rootkit - to do a google redirect!) and cured it for me. Which was nice. And it scanned and fixed in 20 minutes or so. Which is much better than the 6+ hours some were taking.
Gonna enter geek mode here but what u need to do is set up a web browsing profile. Set it with limited rights so a virus can't propogate without permission. Its a pain for updates and shit but will keep your windows pc safer
it also disables youre existing antivirus software.
You will notice if you type in av virus suite in the search button the results show up but you will be unable to click the links.
go into internet options via control panel
internet properties
LAN settings
and make sure 'proxy server' is unclicked ( this is what gives you grief getting online)
Install Linux!
This is true! I'm stuck with fekkin windows again after 5 years and its killing me. Ubuntu all the way
Seems to be more than usual on MTBR, it often gets booted off at work. Avast blocked a trojan from there tonight on my home laptop.
it also disables youre existing antivirus software.
Oddly enough, so does Linux 🙂
Been using it since about 1994 (started on kernel 2.0, IIRC). Never once had a virus.
Thanks fellas.
Can't claim to understand half the advice given above, but Stopzilla running in safe mode appears to be strangling the ****ers at source.
My wife is finally having to admit this place is useful, with this thread and advice in the past on prams, washing machines and boys names.
Fingers crossed.
luked2 - Member
Install Linux!
Yeah, good idea, exchange occasional malware for poorly written drivers, half working programs in perpetual beta and a GUI which belongs in the past. Oh and what's that, your screen resolution isn't on the list - looks like you'll be editing xorg.conf then. And oh dear - your hard disk isn't automounting? Looks like you'll be editing fstab then. Come on.
Can anyone translate what retro83 just wrote - is it Olde geekspeak?
Thanks though, always like a second opinion.
Can anyone translate what retro83 just wrote - is it Olde geekspeak?
Back in the day, you had to really [b]want[/b] to use Linux. You couldn't buy hardware without consulting a list of things that might actually work, configuring the display resolution and refresh rate (or just making any kind of graphics work at all) involved hacking monstrously complicated and fragile configuration files, nothing worked with anything else, and you could completely forget about word processors unless you wanted to use LateX.
These days it's a lot more straightforward. It's still different, stuff won't work quite the way you expect, but if you get a recent Ubuntu, it will usually be just fine.
I could drone on about xorg.conf a lot more, or OpenOffice, but I won't because it would be a bit dull for a cycling forum.
went on mtbr just a while ago. avast popped up a warning and dealt with it. definitely something up there.
avast free version BTW.
It's not an issue with MTBR itself, but the advertisers that run through the site. Megavideo is having the same problem, well them and a load of other sites... not a lot can be done about it! i ran Malwarebytes to get rid of most of it and used Glary utilities to kill the nasty little .exe file that AV Security uses on startup to load itself again.
I've not had an issue since!
Can anyone translate what retro83 just wrote - is it Olde geekspeak?
Linux can appear, on the surface, to be fairly straightforward. However, you get dumped into the world of command prompts (MS-DOS is an example you may be familiar with), editing your own configuration files and things just not working for any apparent reason far too regularly.
I completely agree that Linux (particularly the Debian based stuff) is fantastic for hassle free computing - I set up a Debian machine for my mum to use, and it simply worked for years. XP, however, pretty quickly got fouled up with Virii.
On the other hand, half the stuff you want to do on a PC cannot easily be done on Linux. Last time I had a mess with it, there were no decent IM clients, you can't use Word (which rules it out for me), Flash was a fag to get going etc. Software is very much developed in the style of the average 17 year old's "tuned" car - the "cool" stuff gets strapped on straight away, so Linux had translucent windows, fancy themes and 3D interfaces when they were Tomorrow's World type stuff. Nevertheless, the boring stuff like tracking down the occasionaly misfire doesn't happen - new features seem to be added constantly in favour of properly fixing the ones that exist.
The worst part of all is the quality of the support - the average Windows / MS question has been answered in the MSKB or on a Forum. The average Linux question requires signing up to a forum and being upbraided by a bunch of geeks.