Hello all!
Yesterday I was unlucky enough to pickup a couple of nasties while web browsing (guess i won't be trusting avgs linkscanner anymore ). AVG and windows firewall popped up a fair few messages about various viruses and trojans and I've spent the last day trying to remove everything.
Most prominent was smitfraud -c, which I think was causing a lot of fake windows security alerts to pop up. Hopefully I sorted this out with smitfraudfix - the fake warnings have stopped appearing. As well as running AVG i also installed and ran adaware and spybot s&d - AVG didn't pickup anything else, but the last 2 found other trojans hanging about.
While running AVG in safe mode it came up with some lines about locked files which it hadn't tested, so when i logged back onto the net to find out what this was about, I discovered I still had a problem with IE, where I was getting redirected from google links to random websites. So i came to techspot seeking answers!
I completed the 8 step instructions (couldn't turn AVG free 8.0s anti spyware off independantly - tell me if I need to disable the resident shield completely) and malewarebytes and superantispyware both picked stuff up.
Google appears to be working correctly atm, but I'll need to test for longer to see if its really gone. I was hoping someone could take a quick look through my logs to see if theres anything dodgy still about. Many thanks in advance
Yesterday I was unlucky enough to pickup a couple of nasties while web browsing (guess i won't be trusting avgs linkscanner anymore ). AVG and windows firewall popped up a fair few messages about various viruses and trojans and I've spent the last day trying to remove everything.
Most prominent was smitfraud -c, which I think was causing a lot of fake windows security alerts to pop up. Hopefully I sorted this out with smitfraudfix - the fake warnings have stopped appearing. As well as running AVG i also installed and ran adaware and spybot s&d - AVG didn't pickup anything else, but the last 2 found other trojans hanging about.
While running AVG in safe mode it came up with some lines about locked files which it hadn't tested, so when i logged back onto the net to find out what this was about, I discovered I still had a problem with IE, where I was getting redirected from google links to random websites. So i came to techspot seeking answers!
I completed the 8 step instructions (couldn't turn AVG free 8.0s anti spyware off independantly - tell me if I need to disable the resident shield completely) and malewarebytes and superantispyware both picked stuff up.
Google appears to be working correctly atm, but I'll need to test for longer to see if its really gone. I was hoping someone could take a quick look through my logs to see if theres anything dodgy still about. Many thanks in advance