Possible Virus?

[ninjamonkey]

sometimes when i open up a new window of IE, it doesn thav ehte same toolbars up and soemtimes it doesnt even have the adress bar. also, the windows logo with the white square is larger than usual.

has this happened to anyone else?

i did a scan with ad-aware and it only found trackign cookies and wildtangent.
I using the housecall online virus scanner now. before it even started scanning it said it found some malware thing. could that have been the cause?

[silent VI]

i had that one whenever i open a new window two window would pop up one the window i wanted and the other a allaboutsearching toolbar i got rid of it with hijackthis

[delphin460]

use spybot

[Xero Grid]

Could be a virus, but more likely to be stubborn spyware.
Links to any legit spyware removal program (http://filesharingtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=58636)

For virus scanning, I wouldn't use an online scanner.
nsane (http://nsane.nm.ru/) always has the latest NOD32 on-demand scanner, that's if you don't want to install a full anti-virus. The only ones I would ever recommend would be AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/) (there's a free version that's great, but pro is just that much better), and NOD32 (http://www.nod32.com/home/home.htm), which you can check out the trial version.

But you can always block stuff like this with the HOSTS file. I made my own Supertrick installer. haxor41789 was nice enough to host it.
Supertrick XG (http://www.s93622254.onlinehome.us/misc/supertrickxg)


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[ninjamonkey]

well, i havent had the problem since the online scanner got rid of that malware thing.

[supersonic]

Press F11 and everything will actually return to normal B)

[ninjamonkey]

what does that do?

man, i just got this virus again. it doesnt let you close iE windows and if you try to open task manager, you just hear oen of those error sounds, but with no error message. i used that online virus scanner again, but it didnt find anything. and ad-aware and spybot didnt find anything

also, it doesnt let you click links in already existing IE windows, and if you open a new IE window, the page doesnt load.

[muchspl2]

try this http://members.cox.net/ot_space/toolbarkiller.vbs
it removes all toolbars

from here http://filesharingtalk.com/index.php?showt...4361&hl=toolbar (http://filesharingtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=104361&hl=toolbar)

[ninjamonkey]

im not looking to remove my toolbars.

[Xero Grid]

You running XP? If that's the case, you need to turn off system restore. The same goes for if you're runnning on (I'll gouge out my eyes if you say you have it) Windows ME....

You might need HijackThis! or CWShredder (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/) for those pain-in-the-ass spyware.

McAfee AVERT Stinger (http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/) may help. Even though I don't like McAfee, this tool is cool.

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[shn]

STOP using ie. http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/prank/internet.gif

[ninjamonkey]

yeah, it keeps happening. does anyone know what it is?

it prevents me from using shift+clicking to open new windows, and it takes away all of my toolbars except for google toolbar.

[Xero Grid]

Nope, but you can try using another browser.

MyIE2 (http://www.myie2.com/)
Mozilla and Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/)
are excellent

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[ninjamonkey]

yeah i have Firefox, its annoying though, it tells me i need to install plug-ins. and (when clicking links) getting new tabs to open automatically instead of in a new browser gets confusing. you have to start downloading those tools from the firefox site to get that to happen.

[Xero Grid]

MyIE2 is much more configurable, expecially the actions of the tabs. I suggest you try it.

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[ninjamonkey]

thank you i will.

[ninjamonkey]

as I'm installing it, it asks if I want to install the integrated AI RoboForm Plugin

it remembers passwords and such. it sounds semi-usefull, but like it could be a spyware type thing

[Xero Grid]

It's definately not spyware, but I NEVER install it. I don't know why people would want to store passwords to begin with.

You may also be wondering about UCmore toolbar. I never activate that plug-in. UCmore (the company) delivers spyware, but the plug-ins itself is not spyware.

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[ninjamonkey]

i never heard of the UCmore toolbar
the toolbar is not spyware, but you can get spyware from it?
does that toolbar come with MyIE2?


anyway, RoboForm is making me create a "new identity"
however, it alread had my father's email and name filled out. How did it know this information?

Why would peopel want to store passwords, you ask? How do you rememeber your passwords? Personally, I keep all of my info on paper in a desk, not on the computer, but this RoboForm sounds interesting

EDIT: It wants me to choose a language. "English" or "English for translation"
what is english for translation?

[Xero Grid]

No, the UCmore toolbar for internet explorer has been identified as spyware, but the plug-in with MyIE2 has no spyware.

I guess it uses the "seacrh accelerator" without installing the entire spyware riddled program. But, I told you, I never used it. :lol:

IE2 has a search bar with almost EVERY search engine, my favorite being google. So, I don't know what the hell UCmore is supposed to do.

Well, for passwords, I always play it safe, and never put any on my comp. What would happen if you get a virus that finds it and sends it back home? You know what I mean. I've had to fix a few computers like that.

I always use English for the language. I really can't say what English for translation is. Possibly if you are going to use a language module later. As in English isn't your fist language.

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[ninjamonkey]

how does it knwo my father's name? i feel violated. haha

MYIE2 is set up to "Allow ActiveX"
However, i have spywareblaster which blocks some ActiveX things. Will it still funtion normally?

[Xero Grid]

Well, you must be using an installed e-mail client, like outlook express, to handle e-mails. It's meant to make things like that easier (eg. email and name with forms), so it'll detect that. Hey, if you used web-based e-mail instead, you wouldn't feel so violated. :lol:

ActiveX should work fine. But, I try to keep the number of programs running in the backround to a minimum. That's one of the reasons I made this. (http://filesharingtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=107782)

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[ninjamonkey]

nice, thanks.

btw, i don't use outlook express. maybe my dad used it once before though.

so spywareblaster should still block the bad activeX even though i have activeX enabled?

[supersonic]

You can di3able active-X in IE. Don't depend on programs to do that, do it urself, so when u want to enable things, you know where you made the changes. Spyware blaster is good as well.
Just go 2 the Zones in internet options under the "security" tab and choose "cutom lelvel" and configre them all not 2 run active-X.

[ninjamonkey]

Thanks, I have no need to do that though. I was just wondering if spywareBlaster was still going to work properly.

Speaking of browsers, what do you guys think of Avant? And how many browsers do you use?

[zapjb]

Didn't go through the whole thread.

SpywareBlaster works great.

I use 3 browsers Firefox mostly last few weeeks. Opera is next in line. And IE as a last resort.

I think Avant sux, just like all the IE add-ons. Cause thats what it & many so-called "browsers" are. They are dependent on IE not separate stand alones.