Seriphyn
20-11-2007, 05:33 PM
Right, my laptop has been infected with some relentless adware which has a presence in my systray saying "This computer is infected click here for effective antivirus" paraphrased, trying to fool the average user and that.
Alerts come up too, with the whole "Virus detected click here for scan" and that, as well as IE opens randomly (I use Firefox) with a fake "security centre" page.
Also these two icons on my desktop keep bugging me. "Live Virus Center" and something else, trying to fool you into thinking it's official Windows stuff...when it's not. I delete them but they keep reappearing.
Scanned my computer with adware, Spybot and avast!, latter picked up nothing, first two picked up stuff that it deleted, but no change.
Searched add/remove for any candidates. As for processes, dunno what to look. Stuff comes up like "system performance warning" and a whole bunch of stuff. The start bar periodcally disappears too...then reappears. Helps
Alerts come up too, with the whole "Virus detected click here for scan" and that, as well as IE opens randomly (I use Firefox) with a fake "security centre" page.
Also these two icons on my desktop keep bugging me. "Live Virus Center" and something else, trying to fool you into thinking it's official Windows stuff...when it's not. I delete them but they keep reappearing.
Scanned my computer with adware, Spybot and avast!, latter picked up nothing, first two picked up stuff that it deleted, but no change.
Searched add/remove for any candidates. As for processes, dunno what to look. Stuff comes up like "system performance warning" and a whole bunch of stuff. The start bar periodcally disappears too...then reappears. Helps