Date: 10/05/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: virus, spyware

I have a question. I have 2 accounts on my computer--my account and my boyfriend's account. My boyfriend's account is rarely rarely used, but lately he's tried to use it. My account works just fine, but his account keeps dumping the physical memory. I've cleaned the computer hardware, ran various anti-spyware programs, ran my virus protection program, defragged the harddrive, etc. Still does it. (And of course, Windows tells me that I might want to disable the driver in the STOP line, but um, I don't magically know how to look at hex and go "oh it's that driver!") So, if anyone has any suggestions of what might be wrong with his account, that would be awesome. The only thing I can think of is that I got a new monitor recently, but it's hard for me to say if that's somehow the problem because we so rarely used his account before then. I should probably add that I'm running Windows XP.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/46624.html

Date: 10/05/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

I've been trying to ween away from Symantec products systematically. I find AVG to be a great antivirus program. But now i am looking for a hard drive diagnostic tool that does what NDD does. In particular, checks filesystems and such while the machine is loaded into windows. (I use DFT for pure hardware hard drive diagnostics).

Any suggestions?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/789101.html

Date: 10/06/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus

My keyboard is not allowing me to type normally. It is a Memorex MX 2500. I'm not sure if it could be a virus or maybe just simply a hardware problem.

Different letter keys are doing odd things. Everytime I type s it returns. I'm copy pasting it right now. w is also doing something odd. It is going "home" to the place I first started typing and adding a 9. Numbers are being odd also. The x key also forces return. Enter types an s of its own accord.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/501321.html

Date: 10/06/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, virus, spyware

A test version of software to protect business PCs and file servers against viruses and spyware is due by year's end.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+set+to+test+security+software/2100-1009_22-5889842.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/07/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus

How come when I try to download a file attachment from my Hotmail account, sometimes I get this message:

"Internet Explorer cannot download ((filename here)). The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later."

But it works at other times. How do I fix this? (There's no virus)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/790592.html

Date: 10/09/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, security, virus, antivirus, spyware, spam, microsoft

Firstly, I just want this to be known that this isn't an anti-windows rant or anything. There is a question being posed here, I promise :P

With that said, companies like McAfee and Symantec have basically been making a living solely from Microsoft's security oversights. They've been charging people to use their software which protects those people from the vulnerabilities that Microsoft left open. The quality of these programs varies from function to function. Even then, they ignore adware since it's not considered 'malicous'. And even still, they have issues with using the same name for similar viruses. Users are faced with these same problems with any anti-virus/anti-adware/anti-whatever software they use. There is a lot of similar companies, but they don't have a common agreeance on what is and isn't a virus, or if they should detect adware. There's also the issues that come with the firewall program they install. Traffic from the internet isn't always malicious, but those firewalls can't usually tell the difference. Very few of these programs are free. None of these problems actually FIX the problem. They're only removing programs that exploit the initial vulnerabilities, leaving room for reuse value.

As many of you surely know already, Microsoft has recently released a beta version of their anti-crap (to summarize anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-adware, anti-spyware, etc) scanner and removal tool. Before that, they've included a firewall program in XP SP2. Microsoft is not charging anything for either of these programs. At least not as of yet if they ever decide to.

So, my question is this; Do you folks think Microsoft is taking a step in the right direction by adding the firewall and scanner tools? Will they do a better job than the other Antivirus vendors? Do you think maybe they are taking a step in the WRONG direction, like, why aren't they fixing the actual problems instead of covering them up? What do you all think?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/793809.html

Date: 10/09/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, web

Problem:
No picutres are showing up on any websites. I'll get the occasional few here and there but that's it. I don't get the little hotmail icon things; I don't see icons on any of my friends page (DJ or LJ); I don't even see pictures on myspace anymore. And there are so many more sites that I'm not seeing picutres on, those are just the ones I use most frequently.

I've got an Dell Windows XP and McAfee Virus Protection. I'm currently scanning my computer for viruses but I really doubt that I have any viruses. I'm not dumb, I know quite a bit of stuff about computers. But this seriously has me stumped. I mean a month or two ago it just started out where I think there something wrong with my internet connection. Now there's no place holder for the pictures or anything. I know that there are supposed to be pictures. Just argh.

Help? ♥

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/505708.html

Date: 10/09/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus, spyware

So I've been getting this message for a while...I think I uninstalled some stuff I shouldn't have.

Error loading winupd.dll
The specific module could not be found

Basically whenever I start a program like windows media player it pops up. Also it pops up from time to time on its own. I ran virus scan and spyware stuff and it still happens. I also ran a registry cleaner/fixer and still happens. Any ideas how to stop/fix it?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/794138.html

Date: 10/11/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, virus, spyware, spam, microsoft

Will Microsoft's announcement of a new security strategy to provide better virus, spam and spyware protection for corporate customers?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/CIO+Jury+deliberates+on+Microsoft+security/2100-1009_22-5893260.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/12/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus

I have a question. My friend had this away message up saying come look at my pictures from camp. I thought it was real I clicked on it and now apparently I have some sort of virus. This away message randomly shows up on my BL on Aim now...I deleated Aim from my computer and redownloaded it but apparently I Still have it. I have run my virus scan about 10 times...and it's gotten rid of everything except these 6 six traces..anyone have any ideas of what I can do

aren

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/508510.html

Date: 10/12/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, virus, antivirus, microsoft

People now pay more for annual subscription to Norton AntiVirus and other products. Is it a "last hurrah" before Microsoft's security push gets going?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Symantec+quietly+hikes+Norton+renewal+prices/2100-1009_22-5894058.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/17/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus

I was wondering if anyone can tell me if Limewire is an okay program for music? I heard that the mp3 files on Limewire usually don't have viruses or anything else that's bad. Only programs and video files (and .wav, .avi, .mov???) have. Is that true? What other bad/good things are there for Limewire?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/510553.html

Date: 10/19/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: asp, virus, antivirus, web

A worm is being propogated via Instant Messengers (MSN and AOL affected).

I received this message today:
LOL!! http://home.earthlink.net/~xxx/picture007.com
Real link removed for your protection.

I downloaded the file, McAfee VirusScan 9 didn't detect a virus, but it's a good thing I ran it through multiple scanners before I ran it.

Bottom line is, if someone sends you a link to a .exe or .com file, especially if its an unknown contact, you better damn well know what they are sending or else its most surely a virus.

Details @ McAfee - http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_136497.htm


This is a report processed by VirusTotal on 10/19/2005 at 01:48:51 (CET) after scanning the file "picture007.com" file.
Antivirus Version Update Result
AntiVir 6.32.0.6 10.18.2005 no virus found
Avast 4.6.695.0 10.18.2005 no virus found
AVG 718 10.18.2005 no virus found
Avira 6.32.0.6 10.18.2005 no virus found
BitDefender 7.2 10.19.2005 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 8.00 10.18.2005 (Suspicious) - DNAScan
ClamAV devel-20050917 10.18.2005 no virus found
DrWeb 4.32b 10.18.2005 no virus found
eTrust-Iris 7.1.194.0 10.18.2005 no virus found
eTrust-Vet 11.9.1.0 10.18.2005 no virus found
Fortinet 2.48.0.0 10.18.2005 no virus found
F-Prot 3.16c 10.18.2005 no virus found
Ikarus 0.2.59.0 10.18.2005 IM-Worm.Win32.Kelvir.DT
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 10.18.2005 no virus found
McAfee 4607 10.18.2005 no virus found
NOD32v2 1.1260 10.18.2005 a variant of Win32/Oscarbot
Norman 5.70.10 10.18.2005 no virus found
Panda 8.02.00 10.18.2005 no virus found
Sophos 3.98.0 10.18.2005 no virus found
Symantec 8.0 10.18.2005 no virus found
TheHacker 5.8.4.125 10.18.2005 no virus found
VBA32 3.10.4 10.18.2005 no virus found



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X-posted to chipzone, computergeeks, & computerhelp

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/799827.html

Date: 10/20/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, google

Ok...so here's my problem (and I tried searching google about it but wasn't able to find anything). When I first turn on my computer I can connect to the internet fine. (i use dial-up) But if my computer has been on awhile or if I have already disconnected from an earlier time I just can't connect. It will say dialing and everything and then at the very end where it would be connected a thing pops up that says "This action is not supported." (something like that...tell me if I need to check exactly what it says...i just can't right this second because I'd have to restart.)
Anyways if I restart my computer again I can connect again.

I'm pretty sure that I do have a virus or something on my computer. I do have numerous virus scans, etc. but none of them are picking up anything.

If you can help me in any way or give any ideas of what you think this may be it would be appreciated so much!

Thank you. =/

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/513007.html

Date: 10/22/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, antivirus

I have a big problem, or rather my brother does. Somehow the administrator account on his laptop got deleted so he can't install this game that he wants to install or run his antivirus program. The only account he has left is still under the administrator's *name* but it's a Limited account now. As far as I know the only messing around with the accounts that he did was changing the password. Anyone know if you can even *delete* an admin account? And everyone knows that you can't make an admin account with a limited account. How would I go about getting an admin account back?

I'm using XP Professional, if that has anything to do with anything.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/515263.html

Date: 10/26/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: software, virus

Hi, long-time listener, first time caller, let me go ahead and jump right into it...

A buddy of mine at work has been having problems with his XP install so he decided to cut his losses, wipe the drive and reinstall. Perfectly normal, right? Well, here's where it gets weird...

After the numerous reboots he gets to the "Starting Windows for the first time..." screen. Everything looks normal. C:\ has tons of shit in there, everything's copacetic. He reboots the machine and it comes up to a C:\ prompt and a `dir' gives two or three files and that's it.

Allow me to reiterate that last bit to make sure everyone knows where I'm coming from, he installs XP, jumps through all the hoops, dots every i, crosses every t, everything looks good, he reboots and nothing's there.

Before you ask, "Why is he rebooting right after the install completes? Why is he doing that?", It's because the first piece of software that asked him to reboot, he did, and when the machine came back up, nothing was there.

We've checked the power supply, the RAM, formatted from an old 98SE install disk, ran the disk utility off the repair disk, ran the disk utility off the hard drive manufacturers repair disk, stuck a PCI IDE controller in the machine and installed/booted from there, no love, nothing.

At first I thought it was the IDE controller on the motherboard going bad, but it wouldn't have been able to write the OS to the hard drive to reboot for the "Starting Windows for the first time..." bit, never would've got that far.

You could say that it's never getting written to the hard drive but running from memory, but that wouldn't hold over between boots.

My latest idea is that maybe there's a boot sector virus written past the sector where XP writes the bootloader so it's not getting overwritten during reinstall, but that would get wiped during a format, wouldn't it? I've downloaded and burned a copy of Darren's Boot&Nuke (DBAN) and we're gonna try that next, but my hopes aren't that high.

Couldn't be a power supply problem, unless power supplies are wiping out OS's on reboot these days.

I would say it's a bad hard drive but it's done the same thing on two different hard drives.

The machine boots from Knoppix and runs fine, accessing the hard drives from Knoppix also works (albeit, there's nothing to look at), what the fuck is going on? I've been researching this for (going on) three weeks and I'm no closer to a solution than I was when I started. I don't think it's a hardware issue because Knoppix runs, why won't the XP install stick?

Any ideas?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/48773.html

Date: 10/27/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, spyware, google

I have this really annoying popup from Winfixer2005 that wont go away. I'm assuming its Spyware or whatnot. I also have this Moxilla page that comes up whenever I try to go to google.

I've already virus scanned and Mcafee supposedly got rid of it but its still here.

HELP!

whoever tells me how to get rid of this stupid thing will have my love forever:)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/518484.html

Date: 10/28/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus

Our computer starts up fine, but once you get to the windows XP profile screen and select a profile, it freezes almost immediately. Programs will only run in Safemode with command prompts, because no desktop loads in that mode. Through the task manager, we can access programs, so we have cleaned the regisrty and run virus-cleaners that say there are infected files on the computer. However, we deleted the infected files and still the same problems. Hard dick-check says there are problems with the disk, but it can't fix them because the disk is in use. We can't figure out how to do a basic DOS run.

Can anyone surmise what's going on here? And, can anyone point us in the right direction in terms of what to do to remedy the situation? ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/520264.html

Date: 10/28/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus

Cross-posted in a bunch of places, cause we're desperate. :)


Our computer starts up fine, but once you get to the windows XP profile screen and select a profile, it freezes almost immediately. Programs will only run in Safemode with command prompts, because no desktop loads in that mode. Through the task manager, we can access programs, so we have cleaned the regisrty and run virus-cleaners that say there are infected files on the computer. However, we deleted the infected files and still the same problems. Hard dick-check says there are problems with the disk, but it can't fix them because the disk is in use. We can't figure out how to do a basic DOS run.

Can anyone surmise what's going on here? And, can anyone point us in the right direction in terms of what to do to remedy the situation? ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/805477.html

Date: 11/01/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, virus, antivirus

Security researcher says an issue in several antivirus products could let malicious files pass undetected, but some in the industry say it's not a flaw.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Evasion+bug+bites+virus+shields/2100-1009_22-5924738.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn