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Hello,
Today I think a virus tried to infect my system (Windows Vista) through a brower (Internet Explorer) exploit. My computer froze up for a little while then after it starting running normally a window appeared on my computer asking me if I approve for Update.exe , I denied this request as I was suspicious of it.
After this encounter everything seemed fine. Until I started browsing the internet. Every time I wanted to go to a website it would redirect me to some other website that had nothing to do with what I wanted. I then realized that perhaps I am infected.
My anti-virus program, AVG, fully updated, did not report any viral infection. When I did a full system scan I did not find anything. Well, I found some stuff, but it was not really malicious. I just had some hex-decimal editing program that it listed as "suspicious",. but other than that, the scan was fine.
Furthermore, my computer is running perfectly. There are no problems with it at all. No sense of any kind of infection.
However, my internet browser is messed up. Whenever I tried to use it, either it redirects me, or else it crashes (which is what was recently happening, it for some reason stopped redirecting and now crashes IE when I want to go somewhere).
My theory is that this infection failed to infect my computer as my high security settings blocked it from entering, however, IE was vulnerable and so only IE is infected while my computer is running fine.
What do I do? Should I uninstall IE and reinstall it again? This virus does not seem to be a very big threat at all, however, still I want to get rid of it.
Thank you very much,
Today I think a virus tried to infect my system (Windows Vista) through a brower (Internet Explorer) exploit. My computer froze up for a little while then after it starting running normally a window appeared on my computer asking me if I approve for Update.exe , I denied this request as I was suspicious of it.
After this encounter everything seemed fine. Until I started browsing the internet. Every time I wanted to go to a website it would redirect me to some other website that had nothing to do with what I wanted. I then realized that perhaps I am infected.
My anti-virus program, AVG, fully updated, did not report any viral infection. When I did a full system scan I did not find anything. Well, I found some stuff, but it was not really malicious. I just had some hex-decimal editing program that it listed as "suspicious",. but other than that, the scan was fine.
Furthermore, my computer is running perfectly. There are no problems with it at all. No sense of any kind of infection.
However, my internet browser is messed up. Whenever I tried to use it, either it redirects me, or else it crashes (which is what was recently happening, it for some reason stopped redirecting and now crashes IE when I want to go somewhere).
My theory is that this infection failed to infect my computer as my high security settings blocked it from entering, however, IE was vulnerable and so only IE is infected while my computer is running fine.
What do I do? Should I uninstall IE and reinstall it again? This virus does not seem to be a very big threat at all, however, still I want to get rid of it.
Thank you very much,