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unknown virus or worm jbundy77 06-30-2007
Posted by on June 30, 2007, 2:45 pm
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I am pretty sure my computer is infected with a virus or worm. The
symptoms are that when I go online I can type anthing into my browser
address but if I was to open another window like google I cannot get
the cursor to show up in the text box where you would type your search
criteria. Therefore you cannot type anything. My norton antivirus had
expired so I loaded antivirus 2006 that I had purchased awhile ago (I
know, not to smart, buy it then dont load it, duh!). Norton is
erroring continually and does not indicate a virus. Trying to find out
if there is something out there (virus/worm) that has these symptoms
and what is its name and how do I kill it. Thanks


Posted by David H. Lipman on June 30, 2007, 9:29 pm
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| I am pretty sure my computer is infected with a virus or worm. The
| symptoms are that when I go online I can type anthing into my browser
| address but if I was to open another window like google I cannot get
| the cursor to show up in the text box where you would type your search
| criteria. Therefore you cannot type anything. My norton antivirus had
| expired so I loaded antivirus 2006 that I had purchased awhile ago (I
| know, not to smart, buy it then dont load it, duh!). Norton is
| erroring continually and does not indicate a virus. Trying to find out
| if there is something out there (virus/worm) that has these symptoms
| and what is its name and how do I kill it. Thanks


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go
through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal
Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the
PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you
can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded
the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode
[F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run
in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive
PDF help
file.

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by Mees de Roo on July 1, 2007, 8:09 am
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I'm not sure wether this is really a virus issue. I have seen iexplorer behave
in this way on various uninfected computers ever since the last 3 security
updates for IE. Usually some double or triple (right)clicking does the trick.
After a week, it disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared. I do not hope
this is a new MS setup (actually very old, if you remember the occasional
breaks of Netscape after an MS update) to move people away from google.
Mees

>
> | I am pretty sure my computer is infected with a virus or worm. The
> | symptoms are that when I go online I can type anthing into my browser
> | address but if I was to open another window like google I cannot get
> | the cursor to show up in the text box where you would type your search
> | criteria. Therefore you cannot type anything. My norton antivirus had
> | expired so I loaded antivirus 2006 that I had purchased awhile ago (I
> | know, not to smart, buy it then dont load it, duh!). Norton is
> | erroring continually and does not indicate a virus. Trying to find out
> | if there is something out there (virus/worm) that has these symptoms
> | and what is its name and how do I kill it. Thanks
>
>
> Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
> http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
>
> To use this utility, perform the following...
> Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
> Choose; Unzip
> Choose; Close
>
> Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
> { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
>
> NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go
> through your
> FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
>
> C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
> This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in
> Normal Mode.
> This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web
> site.
> The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot
> the PC.
>
> You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or
> you can
> download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have
> downloaded the files
> needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe
> Mode [F8 key
> during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to
> run in Safe
> Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal
> Mode.
>
> When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more
> comprehensive PDF help
> file.
>
> Additional Instructions:
> http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm
>
>
> * * * Please report back your results * * *
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>



Posted by David H. Lipman on July 2, 2007, 4:03 pm
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| I'm not sure wether this is really a virus issue. I have seen iexplorer behave
| in this way on various uninfected computers ever since the last 3 security
| updates for IE. Usually some double or triple (right)clicking does the trick.
| After a week, it disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared. I do not hope
| this is a new MS setup (actually very old, if you remember the occasional
| breaks of Netscape after an MS update) to move people away from google.
| Mees
|

You are right. Not a virus, however very possibly a Trojan.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



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