Date: 12/09/05 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

Antivirus firms crack an algorithm that was being used by the worm to "communicate" with its author.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5989094.html

Date: 12/13/05 (Security)    Keywords: technology, security, virus, antivirus

eEye Digital Security may adopt and improve the open-source Clam AntiVirus technology to add to its intrusion-prevention product.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5992194.html

Date: 12/24/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

Hi computer_help:

I'm running Windows XP Professional SP2 on my machine at home, and I've been having this weird problem. I believe explorer.exe is corrupted or infected with some malignant code because the screen saver my monitor no longer powers off, and when I return to the computer the mouse moves but will not be able to click or double click anything until I press ALT+TAB on my keyboard.

I've tried running Avast Antivirus, Ad-aware, and HiJack this. Everything comes back clean.

Is there a way I can "restore" explorer.exe and any other altered system files from my install CD?

Thanks,
ckline

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/551765.html

Date: 01/05/06 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

Most major antivirus products offer protection against attacks that exploit a recently disclosed, unpatched Windows flaw--but not all.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6018696.html

Date: 01/05/06 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

Ilfak Guilanov explains why he created an unofficial Windows patch that is drawing rare backing from antivirus firms.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6018396.html

Date: 01/04/06 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

Variant of worm that clogged e-mail servers is expected to attack this week, but antivirus specialists aren't worried.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6018012.html

Date: 01/08/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, web, yahoo, microsoft, google

On my older computer (a Dell that runs Windows 98), I keep getting invalid page fault errors. Several occur after Windows has loaded:
YOP (that's Yahoo Online Protection)
rundll32
and something called autodown

It also occurs when I startup Internet Explorer, I get that program error message asking me if I want to send data to Microsoft and then the program crashes. I can't access the Internet even though I'm connected.

All the errors say that the program caused an invalid page fault error at module "unknown"

I've tried running anti-virus (AVG) and Ad-aware... I have that computer networked with this one (running Windows XP) and sharing a DSL connection. After some issues in the beginning, I finally got the network up and running so I've been using this computer to download the antivirus programs so I can run them on the other one since I can't get IE to work there at all.
Another thing that may or may not be related: if I uncheck automatically detect settings under LAN settings in internet options, then IE doesn't crash, but the pages won't load.


I'm also having a small, unrelated issue on this computer (the windows XP one). I can't get the internet options setting for "never dial a connection" to stick. I have DSL, so I'm always connected, but certain sites make the dial a connection box pop up. And when I head back to internet options, the "dial whenever a network connection is not present" option is checked off.


Any help or suggestions are much appreciated! I've tried Dell's support website as well as Microsoft's and Googled 'til I couldn't see straight, but I haven't come up with any solutions for my problem.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/563008.html

Date: 01/13/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, web

I'd thought I'd ask around, my users are having problems with \\tsclient\c\whatever being very slow, I'm not sure whether its "by design" or I have interfering stuff like antivirus scans etc going on, suffice to say it can take 1 minute or more just to display the content from any folder.

is there anything I can do to speed this up? otherwise users are currently using outlook web access just to transfer files around.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/itprofessionals/32005.html

Date: 01/13/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, web

I'd thought I'd ask around, my users are having problems with \\tsclient\c\whatever being very slow, I'm not sure whether its "by design" or I have interfering stuff like antivirus scans etc going on, suffice to say it can take 1 minute or more just to display the content from any folder.

is there anything I can do to speed this up? otherwise users are currently using outlook web access just to transfer files around.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/32005.html

Date: 01/08/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, web, yahoo, microsoft, google

On my older computer (a Dell that runs Windows 98), I keep getting invalid page fault errors. Several occur after Windows has loaded:
YOP (that's Yahoo Online Protection)
rundll32
and something called autodown

It also occurs when I startup Internet Explorer, I get that program error message asking me if I want to send data to Microsoft and then the program crashes. I can't access the Internet even though I'm connected.

All the errors say that the program caused an invalid page fault error at module "unknown"

I've tried running anti-virus (AVG) and Ad-aware... I have that computer networked with this one (running Windows XP) and sharing a DSL connection. After some issues in the beginning, I finally got the network up and running so I've been using this computer to download the antivirus programs so I can run them on the other one since I can't get IE to work there at all.
Another thing that may or may not be related: if I uncheck automatically detect settings under LAN settings in internet options, then IE doesn't crash, but the pages won't load.


I'm also having a small, unrelated issue on this computer (the windows XP one). I can't get the internet options setting for "never dial a connection" to stick. I have DSL, so I'm always connected, but certain sites make the dial a connection box pop up. And when I head back to internet options, the "dial whenever a network connection is not present" option is checked off.


Any help or suggestions are much appreciated! I've tried Dell's support website as well as Microsoft's and Googled 'til I couldn't see straight, but I haven't come up with any solutions for my problem.



EDIT: got the first problem solved - uninstalled Yahoo Online Protection and that did the trick!! Still can't figure out what's causing the never dial a connection setting to change. It's frustrating, but I figure it should go away once I delete my AOL account.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/563008.html

Date: 01/23/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, virus, antivirus

Russian antivirus expert says well-worn stereotypes about cybercrime cloud real issues facing IT security.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6029792.html

Date: 02/05/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: browser, virus, antivirus

My ICQ can't connect already for 3 days.
I tried to exit firewall and antivirus - doesn't help. I can't open www.icq.com or any other page from this server (ICQ2GO, icq help...) in my browser. I thought that ICQ server is down, but my friends can connect normally. I reinstalled ICQ twice (full uninstalation)/ Still no effect.
Crossposted.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/874556.html

Date: 02/09/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, web, spyware

i have been having problems with my computer for a few weeks. It started out by me just assuming i had been infected by a virus. i have 3 hard drives (2 maxtor 200gb and one Wetern Digital 160gb) and was assured that reformatting my c drive would not effect my other hard drives. Of course i attempted to virus scan it and search for any spyware and nothing really showed up. the drive was constantly freezing up and taking a very long time to open folders, as well as not allowing me to move files from it to other drives. i ran this error checking program that is located under the drive's properties under the tab Tools, rebooted, and this found multiple bad sectors and attempted to fix them with no real improvement in performance.


so i reformatted,. when it was done reformatting the screen that i had seen during the disk error check came back up (during a reboot) and it started to recover orphaned files that appeared to be all the files from my other 2 drives.

so began the insanity. my 2nd hard drive is all avi files and mp3s files. i first noticed folders missing. then when i would try to view some of these files instead of an avi file playing an mp3 would play, sometimes it would be a mesh of many mp3s that would play and other times it would be a completely different avi file that would skip along and barely play. then in the mp3 files i would click on an mp3 by a certian band yet a completely different song would play and even then it was an odd part of a song, not the entire thing. the more i look the more i find this happening in this drive.

in the 3rd hard drive after the formatting some of the files because incomplete all these files were rar, par2, iso, and vob files, there was such a high volume of these that i am not exactly sure how many if any completely disappeared. and in reality i wasn't really concerned with losing the data from this drive.

even now when i have to reboot, sometimes it just automattically enters into checking my drives for disk errors and it will tell me its recovering orphaned files and it will continue to find bad sectors on all my drives and tell me its fixing them.

lately (the past few days) opening up a folder with avi files dramatically slows my compter down, it takes forever to read just the details of the files, it takes even longer for me to get one of the files to play. Also when i try to play it and freezes it up the window will shut down and my taskbar will dissapear until i open my dvd drive and then the task bar comes back.

so with my limited computer knowledge i assumed that maybe the drive was going bad. i dled a program that will check your hd and it said everything looked good (i tried to dl the maxtor program to do this, but it required that you have a drive - and i don't). so i decided that i would reformat my other 2 drives, i moved all the files from my 2nd drive to the other 2, and during this my computer told me that there was a corrupt file on my 3rd drive located in the hidden recycler folder it starts out "S-1-5-21-then a long string of numbers" of course i can not delete this file. i continued to just move the files off my 2nd drive.

Now that there are no files on my 2nd drive, it still tells me that 20 gigs of that drive is being used, but i have no idea what it is being used by, i checked thru dos - nothing, i have hidden files showing - nothing. and now i afraid to reformat without first finding out what is taking up 20 gigs.

so is this a virus that has effected all of my drives? could this be caused by my drives perhaps overheating? could this be because i didn't set up my drives after reformatting with the Maxtor disc? my os is xp home with service pack 2. i use norton antivirus, and it updates automatically, for spyware i use ccleaner, adaware, and spybot s&d. I dl a lot of stuff, all the stuff i dl is rar and par2 files from usenet, or avi files thru bitttorrent. i don't have the slightly idea what is going on. besides updating and running my virus scan 10000s of times i have also run some online virus scans from symatec website, and bitdefender - nothing was found.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/584403.html

Date: 02/20/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, microsoft

I already ran Norton AntiVirus thinking it may have caused it, but NAV didn't pick anything up.

My problem: Anytime I open Word and try to open the recovered document that it saved, I get a pop up with:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!
Program:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\WINWORD.EXE
abnormal program termination


Help?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/880929.html

Date: 02/22/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, asp, virus, antivirus, microsoft

Update to Kaspersky Lab antivirus software causes e-mail problems for some users of Microsoft's Antigen product.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6041792.html

Date: 03/01/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, spyware

I am having problems with spyware or a virus. It started a couple weeks ago where I would start my computer and it would work fine, but after a few minutes I couldn't execute new files. It would say file could not be found.

I ran spybot and norton antivirus in normal mode. It got rid of some spyware and it didn't fine any virii. I still had the same problem. I rebooted in safe mode and did a full system scan. It didn't find any virii, but it found the same two spyware. I've run spybot several times in safe mode and normal mode and the same two things come up.

It's listed as this...
Wild Tangent (wish I could copy and paste the message from spybot)and it's listed as a registry value

and

AntiVirusDisable Notify and it's listed as a registry change.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/593678.html

Date: 03/06/06 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

Virus code isn't shared between some researchers and antivirus companies, amid allegations of "bullying."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6046361.html

Date: 03/11/06 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus, microsoft

Company fixes mistake which, for a brief period, caused its antivirus tools to remove or quarantine Microsoft's Excel, and applications.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6048709.html

Date: 03/14/06 (Security)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

Antivirus company announces two promotions to replace Gene Hodges, who left the company in January.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6049230.html

Date: 04/08/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

I'm using a PC running Windows XP x64. I've been having trouble with the Live Update on my antivirus (Symantec AntiVirus 64), so I decided to do an uninstall and reinstall to try to fix it... only when I try to reinstall, I keep getting an error that says the installation was interrupted. I had uninstalled everything Symantec from the computer and restarted, so I'm not sure why it would be doing that (I even tried starting up in diagnostic mode, but the install wizard is apparently unavailable when you do that). In addition to that, since the uninstall Windows has been requesting reactivation. Every time the computer starts up I get a message saying that the computer's hardware has been changed drastically since installation and that because of it Windows has to be reactivated within three days. Not that reactivation is a huge deal, but there has been no hardware change since my last reformat, which was about a month ago when I upgraded to XP x64. I reformat at least a few times a year, and I know after so many times you have to start calling in the activations... I guess I just want to delay having to do it that way. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/611106.html