Computer Bug Help

taboo

Viruses, Spyware, Trojans, etc.

www.superantispyware.com/
www.lavasoftusa.com/
www.safer-networking.org

Buuhan1

I use the last two but haven't heard of the first one yet. How good is it?

taboo

It picked up crap that Best Buy's Geek Squad and the other two couldn't, and it kept my home page from being changed without my permission.

Buuhan1

Alright, guess that'll bring my programs up to four (with AVG).

Gaiyae

AVG is kinda buggy. I couldn't even get on internet because it had conflicts with some other anti-virus program. I checked out forums on internet and AVG seemed to give errors with other anti-virus programs as well. Now i use Kaspersky antivirus and it works great :D

captain usopp

not free, but I pay for trnd micro pc chillin, and it's great. it always warns me if i go to a shady web page.

I recently DL'd uniblue registry booster as well. suposed to help tidy up your registry.

KaizokuFan22

I use AVG for main viruses and Spybot for Adware,Spyware,etc.
Spybot is a great free program and actually helped me in alot of the PC problems I have had lately.

taboo

Ok, help.

I just used SAS to get rid of a bunch of viruses that I apparently just picked up today, rebooted my computer, and now nothing is running. SuperAntiSpyware and other exe files aren't running, and pictures aren't showing up

help

Gorlom

tried reeboting in safemode or something?

iPenguin

You probably had a virus in autorun.exe and chose to delete it. Not exactly sure how to fix that… I just remember hearing this as a problem from someone.

captain usopp

ok, i have riva flv converter. i've used it before fine. now i open it, and it doens't load the program properly. it looks like it got frozen, but it is not frozen. i tried uninstalling and reinstalling. even redownloading. It still comes up frozen. I've done 2 virus scans. My pc is bug free. I don't understand why it is not working.

kmohyudin

@captain:

ok, i have riva flv converter. i've used it before fine. now i open it, and it doens't load the program properly. it looks like it got frozen, but it is not frozen. i tried uninstalling and reinstalling. even redownloading. It still comes up frozen. I've done 2 virus scans. My pc is bug free. I don't understand why it is not working.

Maybe it wasn't registered?? i.e. a trial version

Fire-Fist

@kmohyudin:

Maybe it wasn't registered?? i.e. a trial version

if i am not wrong its supposed to be free.

anyway just a tip for everyone.
if you think that some file contains virus but your anti-virus is not detecting it. then upload it to www.virustotal.com and get it scanned by about 40 AV and know for sure if its a virus or not

captain usopp

hey, I'm having problems with my internet, and i'm wondering if part of my hardware is to blame. I remember hearing you can go somewhere on your pc and it will check all your parts and tell you if they are ok. how do you do that?

for a couple of weeks now, the internet will run fine, then get really laggy, then run fine, then take forever to load a page…etc. all my roomate's computers are fine though, so we figure it has something to do with just my pc.

S7evin

@captain:

hey, I'm having problems with my internet, and i'm wondering if part of my hardware is to blame. I remember hearing you can go somewhere on your pc and it will check all your parts and tell you if they are ok. how do you do that?

for a couple of weeks now, the internet will run fine, then get really laggy, then run fine, then take forever to load a page…etc. all my roomate's computers are fine though, so we figure it has something to do with just my pc.

How long are the laggy periods? Are we talking minutes, hours ? Also, are you on a wireless network or hooked up directly to the router?

captain usopp

mm, half an hour, to an hour. then it will be fine for say half an hour. and I'm on a wireless connection. I have a really powerful wireless card with 3 antennas, and like I said my roomates are not having troubles.

my computer is old though. I still use DDR ram. My friend just gave me a new stick to help speed up my pc a bit.

Sai-chan

Anyone know how to get rid of this virus?

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It keeps giving me popups and is pretending to be a security thing. And my Norton 360 isn't doing anything about it. Help. D: It already killed my mom's computer.

Cream-of-Chicken

@Sai-chan:

Anyone know how to get rid of this virus?

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It keeps giving me popups and is pretending to be a security thing. And my Norton 360 isn't doing anything about it. Help. D: It already killed my mom's computer.

Malwarebytes?
I had something similar, and that worked for me.

@Dervish:

Ouch. That one's a bitch. But the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program ought to take care of it. This site should give you the instructions to help you get rid of the virus if it's the same one I'm thinking about.

If Malwarebytes doesn't fix it for whatever reason, then download and run Combofix. It should take care of the virus, and anything else that might be lurking on your PC. Both programs are free, by the way.

Make sure to backup your files before using either of these programs, just in case.

Sai-chan

@Cream-of-Chicken:

Malwarebytes?
I had something similar, and that worked for me.

Could you give me an explanation? >3<

EDIT: Okay, I tried downloading it several times, and nothing happened. D:

Cream-of-Chicken

Edit!: Try this.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/xp-securitycenter

Chrissie

Have you tried Spybot Sai-chan? Dunno if it can help with that thing though D: clueless with viruses and crap like that

Sai-chan

@Cream of Chicken: I tried that. For some reason, Malwarebytes doesn't do anything once I've downloaded it. D: Thanks, though.

@Chrissie: More detail, pls?

Urouge

It's been a long time since I've been in the business of removing viruses, but malwarebytes should do the trick. If it wont run, it means you either don't have permissions on your computer to run it, or the virus is blocking you from running it. Right click your taskbar (bottom of your screen), open task manager, go to processes, and either screenshot it or type out the top several entries on the list. If I see it, I can identify which one you need to kill to allow you to do what's necessary to remove it.

Sai-chan

I'm doing something right now that seems to be working. And from what I can see, I don't have a task manager. >3< dhkag;h; just got this computer working a few hours ago

Urouge

If you don't have task manager that's a serious problem. If you hit ctrl+alt+delete it should allow you to open it.

Chrissie

@Sai-chan:

@Chrissie: More detail, pls?

This http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Search-amp-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html

Sai-chan

@Urouge:

If you don't have task manager that's a serious problem. If you hit ctrl+alt+delete it should allow you to open it.

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Here's a screenshot of it.

And I just finished downloading something. I'm not sure if it worked, but I'll see in a few minutes…

Urouge

av.exe

End that process. It's the virus.

Sai-chan

Okay. Done.

Is there anything else I should worry about?

Urouge

Well, with that process gone the virus should no longer have a "grip" on your computer, so it wont feel like it's active anymore, but it isn't gone. Now you're simply free to take the steps necessary to remove it. If you don't, it'll be back after you reboot your PC.

I don't see any other malicious processes running off the top of my head, though.

Sai-chan

Thanks. ;3;

Now I just need to get rid of it. orz

Fire-Fist

StpA_TMP.exe
StpA_TMP.TMP

delete them both.

after that open start go to run
and type

msconfig

go to startup tab and uncheck all programms that you dont need on startup
but… that av.exe and and StpA_TMP would be there too.. tell its location.

after that exit but dont reboot yet

IrishLuigi

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IrishLuigi

There's been suspicious activity on my computer. I think it could be one virus, or more than one, but it is recurring, with different effects every time.

First time, it was some dummy antivirus thing which installed itself and blocked my other antivirus software from working. I found its root file and forcibly deleted it.

Now, there is another apparent avtivirus thing, which stopped some .exe files (except itself, I assume) from working. ctrl+alt+del wouldn't even work, so I used system restore.

I use Avira antivir, and it just popped up 4 windows about a virus and I clicked delete on them all.

Should I be OK?

Fire-Fist

@IrishLuigi:

There's been suspicious activity on my computer. I think it could be one virus, or more than one, but it is recurring, with different effects every time.

First time, it was some dummy antivirus thing which installed itself and blocked my other antivirus software from working. I found its root file and forcibly deleted it.

Now, there is another apparent avtivirus thing, which stopped some .exe files (except itself, I assume) from working. ctrl+alt+del wouldn't even work, so I used system restore.

I use Avira antivir, and it just popped up 4 windows about a virus and I clicked delete on them all.

Should I be OK?

you might wanna share screen shot of startup tab in msconfig and task manager.

also in case ctrl+alt+del stops working use process explorer

iPenguin

regedit is another way to get task manager and such back.

These fake antiviruses are nasty and hijack a lot of stuff.

Here's another thread that had similar problems.
http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=26028

Darkstorm's post especially helped me when I had the task manager problem.
http://apforums.net/showpost.php?p=1434087&postcount=12

captain usopp

i wish i could remember that stuff you guys are posting, but i know I won't.

not a major crisis, but my old desktop tower is making a weird clicking sound here and there. I custom built it around 2005. The other weird thing, is that it brings up the old dial up menu for internet for no reason if i leave my pc sit for a while. sometimes i just hit cancel and keep using the internet. sometimes i have to reset the pc to make the internet work again. My internet card is one of the more powerful ones with 3 antenna and i just bought it maybe a year or 2 ago.

The only other thing that I've done to my pc recently is my friend found an old DDR ram stick for me for christmas. (yes my pc still runs on DDR) maybe it's faulty or incompatible or something? It doesn't seem like my pc is any faster than before it was installed. in fact sometimes I wonder if it's slower.

any thoughts?

iPenguin

You can check Ram Stick compatibility based on your motherboard.

To find out what motherboard etc. you have without opening your computer you can simply download and run AIDA32.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html
(Download from under Download Locations)

When you run it, check out the Motherboard -> Motherboard section.
Here you can find out what RAM type you are suppose to use based on the bus type.

In my experience though, incompatible RAM simply won't allow the computer to start - I kept getting no signal if I tried to use DDRII when my bus is DDR.

RAM also sometimes must be done in a specific order depending on the motherboard. If your new ram stick is a different size than the others then that may be the problem. I believe it usually detects the lowest size thus why it may not feel faster.

I'm not too certain about your internet problems. If it is acting wonky maybe you can reinstall network drivers if you use such. For example, if you use Dell, they offer most of their drivers online.

I have a question myself. I recently upgraded my browser (Opera) and now I see some visuals funky. For example on the Grandline scheme on this board I see all colored names as black. They show fine on the Halloween theme. Does anyone else use Opera and see things just fine? It's not an important detail but it bugs me and I am wondering if changing some settings may fix it. Thanks.

Faithful_STEED

Anyone ever dealt with something called Ernel32.exe?

Fire-Fist

had an intresting virus today… along with other stuff which viruses normally do it it blocked nearly all security related websites.

turn out it had added about 4000 lines to this file
windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

deleting them made it all fine. sharing just in case someone faces similar problem. you should know what to do.

Flux

I got a hideous (apparently new and infamous according to a pal who also got it) Virus a few weeks ago.

It blocked me from opening anything, including all sites, bar a website that conveniantly was trying to sell me "Internet Protection for only $66!" - It was awful. Shut down every window I opened, etc.

In the end I had to shut the computer down and system restore. But then of course I got
it again a day later. System Restored, and download SpyBot and Spyware Terminator.

It's gone now, but anyone else got this virus recently ?

EDIT: SAI - Yes - that's the message I got. Did it not allow you to open most programs ?

@IrishLuigi:

Now, there is another apparent avtivirus thing, which stopped some .exe files (except itself, I assume) from working. ctrl+alt+del wouldn't even work, so I used system restore.

This also sounds like the one I had too. Wonder if they're the same?

Fire-Fist

if you still have it then i'll be interested in seeing hijackthis log

captain usopp

How can I back up my bookmarks real easy on firefox? i can't find a file folder for them.

Fire-Fist

FEBE it backups everything bookmarks, passwords, addons - everything. Used it in past and loved it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109/

captain usopp

thanks. that's very helpful. I'm gonna keep asking, if you guys don't mind answering.

We're having internet problems here. I want some input as to what you guys think the problem is.

I am living in a big house with 8 other renters. Our internet was working fine all summer. All of a sudden, our internet is slow and keeps cutting off. We called our internet provider, and they said nothing is wrong with the internet on their end, and that someone is uploading a ton of stuff, and that is what is giving us problems.

I'm not sure if I buy this. Everyone here is pretty nice and understanding, and wouldn't keep doing it if they knew they were causing problems. Also, I remember last year, around this time, we had the same problems when they were working on the network cables down the street. We had to get our modem replaced.

Do you think they could be right, or do you think it's something else? is there some way to check how much bandwidth each person is using on the router? Maybe someone outside the house is using our internet. it is passworded.

Fire-Fist

I am assuming that you use wireless router/switch. It actually depends on your router. you can set router to log number of packets or directly bandwidth. Also you can see which users are connected to it.

sometimes worms etc upload stuff. but not tons of stuff. If you really trust your mates then someone is most probably stealing your internet. passwords less than 8 characters or words from English language (aka dictionary words) are really easy to crack.

try changing password to something random and difficult and see if there are any changes.

IrishLuigi

I flew to Lanzarote last week, and there, the default search engine that is used when I type a query in my address bar (I use Chrome) automatically changed from google.co.uk to google.es. I thought nothing of it, as it was probably a regional change that would change back when I went back to the UK.

Now that I'm in the uk, it still goes to google.es. This is annoying and I tried to change it by changing the default search engine. Changing it to Yahoo! or Bing leads to a search in the co.uk domain, but this is not so with google, which I want to use.

Wat do?

EDIT: I also noticed that the adverts on Facebook and some web sites like mangareader.com is in spanish too, if it helps.

kmohyudin

@IrishLuigi:

I flew to Lanzarote last week, and there, the default search engine that is used when I type a query in my address bar (I use Chrome) automatically changed from google.co.uk to google.es. I thought nothing of it, as it was probably a regional change that would change back when I went back to the UK.

Now that I'm in the uk, it still goes to google.es. This is annoying and I tried to change it by changing the default search engine. Changing it to Yahoo! or Bing leads to a search in the co.uk domain, but this is not so with google, which I want to use.

Wat do?

EDIT: I also noticed that the adverts on Facebook and some web sites like mangareader.com is in spanish too, if it helps.

You are not behind some proxy are you?

Fire-Fist

hmmm…. delete cookies + cache; flush dns

IrishLuigi

Delted cookies and cache and DNS with ccleaner. Problem still there.

@kymohurdin - I shouldn't be behind an proxy. Just checked my current IP address, it states that I'm in the UK.

Quite the peculiar situation.