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| Hi,
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| I seem to have picked up some nasty viruses on my computer. I have Spayware
| Doctor and Avast all installed and it removes the trojans but they seem to
| reappear upon reboot. The trojans are:
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| Trojan-Proxy.Slaper
| Trojan.Packed.PCPack
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| Please help with advise on how to remove safely.
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Starman, I've XPosted to:--

Security - Viruses

While my wife was in Mexico her laptop picked up malware that
automatically launches IE pointed to www.thearticlebay.com - even
though the default browser is firefox.

We know the bugger checks for internet access before launching. We
know this because the laptop has an external switch to turn off
wireless, and the launch never happens with wireless is off, but
happens in less than one minute from turning wireless on.

We know the bugger checks for internet access using the default
browser. We know this because when ZoneAlarm is installed and denies
internet access to firefox, the IE launch never happens. When
ZoneAlarm is told to permit firefox, the launch happens in less than
a minute.

Googling thearticlebay,com virus turns up only Spanish language hits -
translating them shows a lot of generic help about malware programs,
but nothing specific to the problem and no indication anybody solved
it.

TrendMicro, Norton (google packs), AdAware, and SpyBot all failed to
find it.

Any ideas on how proceed?

Hello everyone,

One of my team's PowerPoint files apparently got infected with a virus which
Mcafee describes as the "slacker virus" but is unable to desinfected it for
some reason - I get an error saying file cannot be cleaned whenever I try to
do so.

The Mcafee scan result shows me a list of about 25 infected OLE obejcts,
which are Excel embedded objects for the vast majority - there are tens of
those inserted into that one file - but there is no way to tell which
infected object corresponds to the actual object in the presentation as far
as I can tell. Otherwise I would simply delete the infected objects from
the PPT file and I reinsert new ones that had already been pre scanned for
viruses (virii?).

This morning I got 59 notices of "returned undelivered email in my inbox,
for mail I never sent.

What do I do ?

Thanks

DNS flaw discoverer says more permanent fixes will be needed
Current patch options merely stopgaps; worst attacks likely on the way
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId...

Eagerly awaiting ZA's reaction :)

OK!!!

I was a bad boy and was downloading bad things from the internet

Windows Defender found a Trojan: Win32/Vundo.gen
Used Window Defender to remove it
It told me that it needs to send the file to Microsoft
I allowed it. Windows Defender crashed.

Rebooted
Used Windows Defender and Norton Internet Security 2008 to scan the entire
computer
Same Virus was found by Windows Defender.
It was able to remove it this time

NIS 2008 found no virus

Now every time I login to my Vista Home Premium 2008, I encounter the
following error message

Title: RunDLL
Message: Error loading C:\Windows\System32\urqOGVPJ.dll

The specified module could not be found

OK button
Click on it, it goes away

We use Officescan for our enterprise anti-virus system, and I thought they
might integrate Mac based scanning(due to their partnership with Intego), to
avoid having to buy a Mac to install an antivirus system on. I have a ticket
open with Trend on this question for their products, but I'm willing to go
with any other Windows based product.
I want to avoid convincing my boss to buy a Mac for me to test antivirus
products on, and then discover later there was no need, if a good one exists
where the management console can run on Windows. Because then I'd have $1000
worth of Mac that wasn't needed.

I am using symantec Norton anti virus and it has discovered a trojan horse in
the c:\recycler folder. the file is not supported by Norton so cannot be
deleted automatically. How do i empty the folder, or simply this one file,
myself?

I caught a virus on my computer yesterday.

It brings me pop-ups every now and then and it has been really annoying. I
scanned my computer using Spybot and Symantec Antivirus (with the most
updated definitions) and deleted whatever they found. Symantec found a virus
called "Downloader" which I think I have seen before. It is saves as an htm
file. Symantec automatic scan in the back pops up every now and then saying
it found that virus and it cleans it sometimes but sometimes it can only
clean it partially.

I have tried to match up what I see on Windows Task Manager and Sysinternals
Process Explorer but I don't see anything strange or maybe I just can't
recognize it.

Another problem that arose after the virus infected my computer was that
Automatic Updates got turned off and I couldn't turn it back on through
Security Center, Control Panel or services.msc. It automatically turns off
itself once I try to enable it. So I tried going on Internet Explorer to go
on Microsoft.com to find an answer. However whenever I try, 40 pop-ups come
at once and freezes my computer (which is currently still freezing.)

i have located a virus in my pc but McAffee won t put it in quarentine
its a file in the system 32 map named ctfmon (or somethin)
if anybody knows what i should or can do (exept resetting my pc) .. please
reply thank you