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brc64 posted:My least favorite question to answer clients is "how did I get infected?" There's never a good way to answer that.
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# ¿ Dec 17, 2008 14:58 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:24 |
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Suspicious posted:If NOD32 is dropping the ball, which is the SH/SC goto antivirus now? Everyone is being blindsided and is caught up in a cat-and-mouse game with this latest crapware.
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2008 19:31 |
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BillWh0re posted:That's pretty much all I can think of although if Office is on there you'd want to update that as well, basically anything that can open embedded in a browser, or that embeds a browser itself, needs to be kept up to date.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2009 23:35 |
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Don't worry about it. It's legitimate and on top of that, I'm not sure why you would find a Windows DLL updating from the Microsoft servers fishy.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2009 19:39 |
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Ran into a brand new variant of WinPC Antivirus that infected a machine on Wednesday. This son of a bitch is one of the worst fake security center programs, because even in safe mode it's preventing anything from running properly, like GMER and MBAM. Nasty poo poo. Usually I resort to using the most recent version of Avira's boot CD to take care of this one, but they still aren't catching it.
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# ¿ May 23, 2009 19:35 |
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Stegosaurus posted:I got some garbage on my pc that I couldn't get rid of and so I reformatted. My current av/spyware software suite is a full version of AVG and spybot. Anything else I need, or are these two enough for my purposes? Just watch what you're clicking on and where you are going, because that's where most of it is coming from.
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# ¿ May 23, 2009 20:21 |
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Otacon posted:Thanks for this tidbit. Do you have to login for each installation? Can I install this on multiple (personally owned) computers with the same LiveID?
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2009 17:01 |
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hobofood posted:AFAIK none of my family use Yahoo for anything at all - I think hotmail is the tool of choice for lovely web-based email, they did originally have outdated versions of Java and Flash, but I fixed those after the first infection. Anything else in particular I should make sure is up to date? And it doesn't have to be Yahoo. These things come from plenty of sources. Just make sure you update Flash and Java to the latest versions, and if they use Adobe Reader, update to the latest point release.
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2009 23:02 |
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n0manarmy posted:Is there anything out there to kind of assist with tracking where an end user may have gotten a virus/spyware?
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2009 15:48 |
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PopeOnARope posted:Edit - checked the MIME info, and the mail blasted out from 115.49.34.112. With ads for https://www.nsehwop.com. Fuckin' Chinese. I've changed the login - this should fix the issue, yeah? How is your contact list stored?
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2010 15:03 |
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Suran37 posted:Not my choice, it was my dad's. His mindset is that if Comcast gives it to their customers it must be the best AV ever made. Maybe I'll just uninstall it. What would be a good replacement?
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2010 04:32 |
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Ted Stevens posted:Well, the system is trashed. Just backup what you can and reinstall windows. The Dell discs work with any Dell branded computer.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2010 14:49 |
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go3 posted:Norton isn't even a speedbump to these things.
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# ¿ May 27, 2011 16:49 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:24 |
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Captain Novolin posted:I seem to have picked up something pretty nasty on my desktop, but I'm not entirely sure how to get it off. MSE picks it up, but it crashes windows before it can remove it. What are my options when it comes to boot CDs? I'd use a USB stick but my laptop's USB ports are all fried. To be safe, you'll want some sort of offline scanner that will work outside of Windows. You can just use Microsoft's Windows Defender Offline to make a boot CD. Best if you can make it on a clean PC.
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# ¿ Jul 7, 2012 23:09 |