Getting rid of spyware

[Fire]

I have a serious spyware issue right now.

Ive got two buttons in the task bar down below that keep beeping, they are wanting to install stuff, i know enough not to let them but they wont go away.

One of them continues to tell me the following; "System Alert: Malware Threats" it then goes on to tell me i have a back door trojan that allows the remote attacker to perform varios malicious actions etc.

Then there are occasional internet explorer pop ups wanting me to install other garbage.

Please help, i ran both Search and Destroy and Ad-aware and neither got rid of it.

I got some spyware the other day, for the first time in years. Its replacing banner ads with somestupid "Congratulations! you over 1,000,000 visitor!" Now, I wouldnt mind this feeble attempt at the English Languae,l but the damned things keep beeping.

Ive also gone to websites where they replae images with these stupid warnings.

Adaware has proved pwowerless in this. Does anyone have any suggestions? It willsave me afullf ormat, which I only did a month or so ago.

 

[MadMac]

The best way of getting rid of spyware is to get rid of Windows based computer. Get yourself a Mac and you won't look back.

I've got Mac now and got no problems....no need for A/V software or crap like that.

If thats too expensive for ya, delete windows and install LINUX on your computer. LINUX is almost as good as Mac and is user-friendly.

 

[Whacker]

So ive turned my computer on and down on the bottom left hand corner of the screen next to the clock it is saying virus alert. Then when i open up the start menu the all programs menu has gone as have the menus for the favourites and last opened documents etc. Ive virus scanned with trend, ad-aware and windows defender and its still there. Any help would be great thanks

 

[ClarkeM]

Not too sure mate... Got any ant-virus programs?

 

[JasRulz63]

Ive virus scanned with trend, ad-aware and windows defender and its still there. Any help would be great thanks

Have you done the Trend Micro scan in Safe Mode?

Tells you how to get it to work here;
http://www.manac.com.au/Support/tmis/TMIS-SafeModeScan.html

 

[Roos4eva]

I've just got this new laptop, and already it's been infected. It won't allow me to go to websites such as google.com, facebook.com and any other search engines and social networking sites.

An error message comes up every time I start up, saying:

RunDLL
Error loading C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\efcBqqpp.dll
The specified module could not be found.

Now, the strange thing about it is that sometimes I can access said websites, but most of the time, it just says on the bottom left hand corner of the screen, for example:

Waiting for www.facebook.com

I have Windows Defender, Norton and have downloaded a couple of suggested programs such as ad-aware, and each have detected infections that others have missed, but the problem still exists.

What should I do?

 

[Whacker]

Have you done the Trend Micro scan in Safe Mode?

Tells you how to get it to work here;
http://www.manac.com.au/Support/tmis/TMIS-SafeModeScan.html

Just tried that and no luck its still like it was

 

[Masss#10]

has anyone got Kaspersky?

i got it recently and ive installed it and have got the serial for it...once i started scanning my computer it says this key is BLACKLISTED...

does anyone know were i can find another key or how to fix the annoying pop-ups every 2 mins... "your key has been blacklisted"

thanks in adavnce

 

[TigerGlory]

Just for a bit of a bump.

Do a google search for SUPERAntiSpyware

Its apparantley newish, and ive installed it and its found 80 threats already half way through a scan.

Its supposed to get rid of those previous hard Spyware and Malware threats that took about 3 hours to manually destroy. Anyway, i think its a good bet.

 

[Fire Storm]

whats a vundio varient? SUPERantispyware picked up this one. Evidently it may not be good.

 

[Fire Storm]

And just out of curiosity, how many spywayer programs can you have on the pc? I've got 4.

ALso, when Vista loads into desktop, I get the msg : RunDLL winjtp32.rom access is denied. Not sure what this means?

 

[JasRulz63]

Spyware doesn't really matter how much you have, you should only have one anti-virus and firewall however.

 

[Fire Storm]

I've got, adaware, avg, comodo firewall, SUPERantispyaware, avast. Lol!

too many eh?

 

[JasRulz63]

Well Avast! and AVG are both anti-viruses correct? Get rid of one. And if you have the new version of AVG, disable the "LinkScanner" because it basically loads and scans every link on a page (ie. Googling something), therefore taking up bandwidth.

 

[Fire Storm]

cool, will do. And keep the comodo firewall? ALso, when windows fully loads and that DLL message comes up saying access denied with that winjtp32.rom mesg, is that a virus or trojan? Doesnt show up in any scans I do.

Also, anyone know anything about kaspersky? Have been told it IS the best for detecting everything.

 

[Homeless]

^^^ i would get rid of both avg's and download either nod32 or trend micro internet security suite. u wont need comodo if u get trend micro but it might be good to keep around anyway for added security.

 

[Homeless]

I've just got this new laptop, and already it's been infected. It won't allow me to go to websites such as google.com, facebook.com and any other search engines and social networking sites.

An error message comes up every time I start up, saying:

RunDLL
Error loading C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\efcBqqpp.dll
The specified module could not be found.

Now, the strange thing about it is that sometimes I can access said websites, but most of the time, it just says on the bottom left hand corner of the screen, for example:

Waiting for www.facebook.com

I have Windows Defender, Norton and have downloaded a couple of suggested programs such as ad-aware, and each have detected infections that others have missed, but the problem still exists.

What should I do?

first i would go to run.exe and type msconfig and look for a startup service or process with that name and get rid of it.

as for your other problem the best thing might be if using vista is to backup your files and restore your computer to factory settings.

 

[JasRulz63]

^^^ i would get rid of both avg's and download either nod32 or trend micro internet security suite. u wont need comodo if u get trend micro but it might be good to keep around anyway for added security.

You wouldn't use both the firewalls at the same time though.

 

[Homeless]

You wouldn't use both the firewalls at the same time though.

not unless you want a lot of headache. either disable the firewall in trend micro or uninstall comodo

 

[Roos4eva]

first i would go to run.exe and type msconfig and look for a startup service or process with that name and get rid of it.

as for your other problem the best thing might be if using vista is to backup your files and restore your computer to factory settings.

Cheers for the help, but I went away for three weeks overseas and when I came back, all the problems were gone.

So, that's my tip. Go away for a few weeks and if you're still having problems, then you're ****ed.

 

[Fire Storm]

Finally figured out what anti-spyware program to use. So deleted all the ones I didn't want. Except that Kaspersky doesn't delete! isn't in control panel un-install program though.

Is in program files and when i right click and delete, it's says I need permission to do that. Is that administration rights what it's asking?

 

[gavdog08]

Are you using Windows XP or Vista?

 

[Fire Storm]

vista. Tried safe mode but no luck. Have heard there is a trick to getting the admin account in Vista because it's hidden. Should I try that?

 

[TigerGlory]

Right now, ive got an absolute bitch of a virus called Antivirus XP 2008.

You've probably heard of it, its systematically dismantling my computer as we speak.

Its taken me hours to actually get on the bloody internet, since i'd have to restart and restart over and over again because it would freeze every time.

Im searching google, the problem is, the virus wont let me on any site that might help get rid of it.

Whenever i go to the "Search" function, it restarts the computer.

Im in a huge mess right now, i didnt even do anything, it just randomly installed about 3 hours ago.

Im running Malwarebytes right now, that apparantley does the trick, but im concerned it wont.

Could anybody help me with this? Its a royal pain in the ass.

 

[gavdog08]

1. Restart the computer in safe mode (keep hitting F8 when restarting).
2. Use your Antivirus software to hunt for the virus and then get rid of it.