supra steveo Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 what are the best anti virus and spy/ adware software (to remove that is) ive just got a blue screen at the moment with trojan.spy in the middle of the screen, ive already down loaded spyware doctor from download.com but what is the best stuff ohh and they have got to be free dont ant to use any bank/credit card detail on the pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt T Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 Search and Destroy, and Ad-Aware for the Spyware issues AVG Antivirus for the Antivirus software Oh and btw, buying on the net is safer than nearly all other electronic methods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra steveo Posted May 15, 2005 Author Share Posted May 15, 2005 cheers fella, just having some problems downloading off download.com now, things are just not going right today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaveriK Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Its safe to buy on the net when your safe in the knowledge that your machine is clean of virus & spy/malware. If you suppect your machine is infected i wouldnt go near it. As for AV and spyware solutions everyone has their own favs/bitchs I am running Sophos AV for virus protection and Microsoft AntiSpyware for the other side of life. SP'2 Firewall is running as is the Firewall on my Router. I also have Protowall and Blocklist manager going to block unwanted IP address for accessing my machine. The above solution (touch wood) has kept me clean as a whistle and my machine is on 24/7 for P2P stuff but then i update my machine with security patchs as and when they come out. MS Antispyware updates its self every night and i manually update Sophos daily with new virus definitions. Seems like alot of work and maybe overkill but its worth it when i listen and giggle at those less fortuate . Those of you who are PC aware it would be worth loading Protowall and Blocklist manager just to see how many packets are being thrown at your machine, its a real eye opener Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Kerio Personal Firewall is another pretty good free firewall. I use AVG as well. For the Spyware the two best I've found, and I've tried a fair few, is Microsoft's Anti-Spyware ( I'm sorry, I wouldn't normally recommend MS software, but it's actually pretty good) The other that has worked really well is ad-away (not ad-aware) Ad-Away Download You normally need to do most of this in safe mode. If you've got XP or ME you'll want to turn off system restore, else you could end up getting infected again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 I got Spyware Doctor this weekend of a bittorrent site, it's only 4mb or so. Very good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra steveo Posted May 16, 2005 Author Share Posted May 16, 2005 right ive got spy doctor, the AOL spyware, spybot search and destroy, and AVG virus, and none of these can get rid of the blue screen and the about:blank homepage. the aol spy ware cant find anything AVG finds something every 5 mins but it doesnt look like its doing anything my head is done in now should i just lauch the pc down the stairs and claim on house insurance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra steveo Posted May 17, 2005 Author Share Posted May 17, 2005 anyone think of anything else i can do problem still there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaveriK Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Have you told AVG to search and destroy virus's, will be honest that i have never used it but with Sophos you tell it to find and then what to try and do (delete/disinfect etc). With some virus's you need to get at them at a lower level of operating system (either dos or safe mode command prompt) and then either running your AV (dos version) or get shot of manually. If your running XP/2000 have a look in the registry at whats being loaded at startup HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCE HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCEEX HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCE If i dont like the look of entries in here i get shot of them but then i do know a little about the little beggers. Also while your at this level have a look at whats being fired from startup. I looked at your earlier post and i will be hosest i dont think i have ever seen a Blue Screen that shows a virus (lucky i guess). Are you sure you have a virus and not just a bit of hardware/software thats causing the unstability. AOL?!?!?! :thumbdown This disc you should take to one side and Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra steveo Posted May 18, 2005 Author Share Posted May 18, 2005 not really sure what it is then. all i know is that i press the button on the front of the tower then the pc gets powerand then ive got a blue screen everything in between that is witchcraft all i know is i need help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra steveo Posted May 18, 2005 Author Share Posted May 18, 2005 by the way i have no idea what those entries are Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPRALOOPY Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 if you are running xp and can get it to load up just go back to before you got the virus/spyware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPRALOOPY Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Have you told AVG to search and destroy virus's, will be honest that i have never used it but with Sophos you tell it to find and then what to try and do (delete/disinfect etc). With some virus's you need to get at them at a lower level of operating system (either dos or safe mode command prompt) and then either running your AV (dos version) or get shot of manually. If your running XP/2000 have a look in the registry at whats being loaded at startup HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCE HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCEEX HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUNONCE If i dont like the look of entries in here i get shot of them but then i do know a little about the little beggers. Also while your at this level have a look at whats being fired from startup. I looked at your earlier post and i will be hosest i dont think i have ever seen a Blue Screen that shows a virus (lucky i guess). Are you sure you have a virus and not just a bit of hardware/software thats causing the unstability. AOL?!?!?! :thumbdown This disc you should take to one side and safe mode is a good option power up and keep hitting f8 key and see if it starts you will have to select safe mode by using arrow keys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted May 19, 2005 Share Posted May 19, 2005 Is the blue screen like a desktop picture? It's just that the other day I had to fix a XP machine with spyware on. The guy was telling me that it kept getting these Blue Screens. When I actually saw the machine, it was just a picture on the desktop. I ended up using system restore as mentioned earlier in this thread. The problems with a lot of these is that they run services and registry entries to put everything back if anyone attempts to remove them. You could spend hours (or even more hours) going throught the system trying to eradicate the spyware. If the system restore doesn't work it might just be quicker to format the system and start again. One last attempt could be to use HiJackThis.exe - If you do a search for it you'll find it. The only problem with this one is that it displays all addons to IE, windows XP, etc. You need to remove the correct ones, else you bu99er it slighty. Trust me I've been driven mad trying to get rid of these in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra steveo Posted May 19, 2005 Author Share Posted May 19, 2005 yup its driving me nuttswill try the f8 thing in a mo ive found some software that i never installed on my add/remove program screen only problem is it wont let me uninstal it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra steveo Posted May 19, 2005 Author Share Posted May 19, 2005 oh yeah the blue screen is on top of my desktop picture just tried that f8 thing and i am no good at it someone will need to talk me through it coz i am a bit of a timmy when it comes to pcs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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