I have a virus on my computer and I need help?
I have Panda Internet Security 2007 and I have scanned my computer several times it says I have no viruses. However later on Panda sends my a note which says there is a maculanious progam on my computer and some of its programs have been stopped to stop the spread of it. Then I scanned my computer again and no viruses where shown but then a pop up kept coming up and it said somthing about the asain institue of something and i lost control of my mouse. This lasted about 2-3 minutes then it stopped and I gain control of my computer back. Only ffor a short while then this cylce occured agan and again until i turned of my computer. HOW CAN I GET RID OF THIS VIRUS? Please HELP
I might have put a virus on my computer help!?!?!!?
Reboot your computer and see if it comes up again. If it does then yes you did put a virus onto your computer, but if it doesn't then no you most probably don't have a virus on your computer. At worst you might have some adware on your computer that created the pop-up which that can be quite easily removed using ESET online scanner. http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/ and go into the advanced settings for the online scanner and tick the box that says about searching for potential threats. The pop-up is just a scare tactic to make you believe you have a virus and chances are if you didn't actually install anything (and you weren't using Internet Explorer) you probably didn't get any virus in there in reality. There are lots of fake pop-ups that warn you that you have thousands of viruses on your computer and you need to call their number to regain control of your computer or install their software to protect your computer. The problem is when people proceed and install the software, because that is when these scam programs take over, and then they tend to lock the computer down all together so you can't access anything at all and everything you try and run states it was blocked by the program because it was a "virus" and you need to call them to pay them - and in reality it wasn't a virus, the real virus is the fake anti-virus. If you do reboot your computer and find you've got this what ever you do - Do not call the company or pay them anything, or even enter your card details into their system. Try rebooting into safe mode and seeing if you can disable their software from there using MSCONFIG, but this is only if you have actually installed the program, from the way you describe it, it seems you stopped before you got to the installation phase so you should be fine just run an ESET online scan to be sure, if it is in your computer and you can't disable it you might need to take it to a local PC repair shop to have them disable it, or do an entire system restore back to factory settings - but remember doing this will most probably mean you'll lose all your pictures, documents, music, etc on your computer, some PC repair shops will try and recover the data (we always attempt to recover the persons data), but many computer repair shops are really lazy and just do a system restore to factory defaults and delete all your files in the process.
I may have a virus, help?
Well, yesterday I noticed that my cpu usuage was extremely high, so I decided to do a virus scan by malwarebytes. It appeared that I had a trojan dropper (a nasty one) and killed it, but I still have a feeling that somethings of it are still left behind. My cpu usuage is back to reasonable percentage now, but I just still have the feeling that it's still lurking. I've done multiple vurus scans by malwarebytes and avast, yet it says that I'm clean, however I still haven't done a full virus scan. I was wondering if any of these executables look very suspicious? Here's all of them that are running in my task manager; ACEngSvr.exe CPU: 0 ACOM.exe *32 CPU: 0 atiedxx.exe CPU: 0 ATKOSD.exe CPU; 0 ATKOSD2.exe CPU: 0 AvastUI.exe CPU: 0 BatteryLife.exe CPU; 0 CLMLSvc.exe CPU: 0 csrrs.exe CPU: 1 DMedia.exe CPU: 0 dwm.exe CPU; 1 ETDCtrl.exe CPU: 0 ETDCtrlHelper.exe CPU; 0 Explorer.exe CPU: 1 HControl.exe CPU: 0 HControlUser.exe CPU; 0 InputPersonal.exe CPU: 0 InsOnWMI.exe CPU: 2 jusched.exe*32 CPU: 0 KBFiltr.exe CPU; 0 mbamgui.exe CPU: 0 msseces.exe CPU: 0 QuickGesture.exe CPU; 0 QuickGesture.exe CPU: 0 RAVCpl64.exe CPU: 0 robotaskbaricon.exe CPU: 0 sensorsrv.exe CPU; 0 Steam.exe*32 CPU: 1-2 TabTip.exe CPU; 0 TabTip32.exe CPU; 0 taskeng.exe CPU: 0 taskeng.exe CPU; 0 taskhost.exe CPU: 0 taskmgr.exe CPU: 1-2 USBChargerPlus.exe CPU: 0 wcourier.exe CPU: 0 WDC.exe CPU: 0 winlogon.exe CPU: 0 wisptis.exe CPU: 0 wisptis.exe CPU: 0 Total CPU usuage; 2-18% Memory in use: 1.69 gigabytes. I didn't put my chrome executables in the list, because I didn't think it was necessary. I haven't experienced any ad popups or fake windows popups, but I'm still concerned.
Help Me! I may have a virus?
you are experiencing a Runtime error. step 1 to restore your startup menu and toolbar press CTRL-ALT-DEL this brings you to the task manager select the applications tab the click new task in the box type explorer.exe the start menu and toolbar should reappear step 2 to check for viruses run a free online Kaspersky scan (no install required) go to www.kaspersky.com in the upper right hand corner of the page click free virus scan it will bring you to another page click on the picture link that says free scan. (make sure java is enable before so) select scan whole computer save a log file in notepad if it finds a virus go to the spybot serach and destroy forums. http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22 Create an account and post a thread detailing the symptoms in the malware removal section (where the link i gave takes you) copy and paste the log at the end of your post (note: do not try to remove it yourself, this can have harmful effects on your computer)
How do I know if my Mac has a virus?
Macs can get viruses and do get viruses. But there are not very many and they are not as serious as the ones that are on Windows. Some people will tell you this is because the Mac doesn't have the the large installed base of windows. But this is not the reason why. The reason why there are less viruses in the MacOSX today is because Apple has really good mechanisms for patching the MacOSX quickly and easily when a virus does appear and because down deep MacOSX is based on a very secure architecture called UNIX. Out-of-the-box Mac OSX does not enable root user account (although you can over ride this) and is really good about requiring a username and a password in order to do much of anything to the operating system itself. This means that the virus does not have access to a lot of the lower level things that can do a lot of damage on the vast majority of macs. Because of this a lot of virus writers don't even bother to write things that work on the MacOS. Windows doesn't share these features and is therefore much less secure than the Mac which makes it a major target for virus writers who get thier jollies doing evil things to computers. Window out of the box is not as secure or well written. Microsoft has traditionally been much slower about patching it's systems and a lot of the windows install base are running out of date versions of the OS. You have to do a lot of work to secure a windows system and a huge percentage of the user base doesn't bother to do the work. Because of this millions and millions of Windows machines are open to viral attacks. This is led to a situation where the general public has the false belief that Macs don't get viruses. So while you can't say that the MacOS doesn't have viruses you can say that the Mac OS has very few of them that you need to be afraid of and they get felt with quickly.
Might I have a computer virus?
Have you updated an ran a security scan recently ??? Do you have a security program that is dependable ? Might I suggest a Free and Very Good one , Microsoft Security Essentials .
Is tinyurl a virus? Scared please help!?
Tinyurl is a url shortener service. You can literally shorten any URL you want, something as harmless as http://www.thisismywebsite.com/this_url_is_too_long_to_type to a much shorter url. The problem comes in when people use this service to mask potentially harmful addresses and websites. So the answer is, No and Yes. The tinyurl service itself is not harmful, what people do with it can be. Answer to your additional details: Anything can be hacked if enough effort and brainpower is applied. They would most likely hack your apple account and gain access to your info that way. It would be way easier than attacking the iPhone directly.
COMPUTER HELP!! i don't know if it's a virus or not so i need help on knowin what it is. Any help please?
Follow these instructions to remove what i think is a virus and then using CCleaner at the end clean your PC Start in safe mode http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.shtml 1st http://www.safer-networking.org/ Download Spy bot S&D Run it and update and THEN immunize and scan. Here's the usage instructions http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial43.html 2nd http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ Run and install and update Ad aware Here's the usage instructions http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial48.html 3rd Download and follow the instructions for Malwarebytes from my site. http://www.freewebs.com/revollie/malwarebytes.htm 4th Download Spybot S&D http://www.spybot.com/en/mirrors/index.html Run that and scan DO NOT if it ask you enable TeaTimer 5th IF the virus has gone Proceed to step 6 IF the virus hasn't gone. Follow and run the program here http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/smitRem.php Download smitRem.exe, saving the file to your desktop. Double click it to extract the contents to a folder of it's own. Restart your computer in safe mode, log on to the user account that is infected, open the smitRem folder and double click the RunThis.bat file to start the tool. Follow the prompts on screen and allow disk cleanup to complete. Upon reboot, you can reset your desktop background. Note: XP users using the XP theme may experience a change to the Classic Windows theme. This can be changed on the themes tab of desktop properties. If you are unsure email me!! Step 6 Run and download CC leaner http://www.freewebs.com/revollie/ccleaner.htm There is some user instructions with the download link from my site I would recommend doing the Cleaning scan AND then use the registry scan at the side toolbar. Hope this helps and don't forget to email me with any problems regarding.