Regular posters here at VDR know how security conscious I am. Well, appartently my computer is infected but I have not yet determined how this has occurred.
I have been getting more and more of these messages, asking if I want to debug an undefined object. Sometimes, I get 20-30 of these popups per webpage. So a couple of days ago, I decided to start doing some research to find a solution. Here is what has occurred so far.
For the first time in over 5 years, one of my computers has become infected with a worm and a couple of trojans. I am very security conscious, so I am currently researching how this happened and what I need to do to remove these trouble makers.
4 days ago, I ran ad-aware and it discovered 43 tracking (data-miners) & items on an MRU List. I had Ad-Aware remove all of those. Then I ran SpyBot and it came up clean. BTW, I updated both programs before running the programs.
The next day, I started getting more of these debug messages, so I ran Ad-Aware and it found 4, which I deleted. Then yesterday, I started having problems big time, so I ran Ad-Aware and this time there were more. I have attached this last Ad-Aware report.
So, I decided to run the Kaspersky online scanner. It took over 8 hours for it to run but the results are that my computer is infected. I have attached this report.
I decided to see if have my Panda Platinum do a complete scan to see if this malware could be detected and removed. Twice, I tried to run a Panda scan on my two hard drives and both times it stopped at 25% on the c:\ hard drive. It probably encountered one of the trojans or worms and didn't know what to do.
I am now going to download TrojanHunter 4.6 and see if it can identify these varmits and remove them. Unfortunately, I had downloaded an eval copy a couple of years ago, so this was not an option.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to a freeware program that I could use to remove this malware.
TIA,
Linda
Last edited by LindaHewitt; April 1st, 2007 at 04:55 AM.
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