12 diffrent types of virus

Fothsn

Fothsn

Fothsn

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Well got a member of the family’s Laptop which is running Vista Ultimate only a few weeks old, it was given to me to fix as apparently it was dog slow and yes it is!! :eek: Major sluggish so I loaded up AVG and shock there was 12 Viruses in the Vault which weren’t healed, now UAC is enabled so is AVG how can I prevent this from happening as its bound to again, its taking me ages to sort this out :(



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Make sure all AVG's auto-gubbins is turned on at boot, it'll probably bring the laptop to it's knees on it's own for 5 mins after boot, but such is the price of letting the clueless loose online.

Also reccommend to them the URL's of reputable warez vendors and left handed websites.
 
A good firewall, anti virus, UAC ON and Windows Defender on and they should be OK (as long as the current viruses are cleaned out properly of course)
 
Well they seem to be games and silly internet tool bars that are causing the problems, I can safely say it’s not warez there defiantly not the type of people plus there are no signs of illegal content on the HDD, just seems to be about 5 different toolbars in IE :p I thought this wasn’t possible due to the sandbox thing and protected mode? About 7 seem to be located in the temp folder which I’ve now deleted just trying to sort the others out.
 
set uac to silent using tweakuac

avg is crap, so get rid of that totally, replace with avast if they don't want to pay for av, otherwise, buy nod32

i'd run a check with nod32, spybot s&d and adaware se to be safe, -disable system restore first
 
i suppose, but a noob is likely to say "ffs, i hate these messages, i want to turn them off" :/
 
bledd. said:
avg is crap, so get rid of that totally, replace with avast if they don't want to pay for av, otherwise, buy nod32
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i'd agree with this. my brother had a problem with his pc, avg was up to date but couldn't remove any of the viruses he had picked up. Avast cleaned them out no probs.... personally i'm never going back to using AVG.
 
Same as my dad's laptop yesterday pretty much, he still managed to get 4-5 differnt types of spyware/trojans on his even with his work's antivirus running which hadn't flagged up a thing ;/
I can't remember the name of the av he had installed, not sure I want to.

Upgraded my Nod32 licence after he finally accepted he needed a good av and installed it for him and after a full scan it found/removed loads.

Spybot s&d and adaware se didn't find anything after which was nice.

All I had to do after was fix the registry with ccleaner due to a lot of odd changes they had caused, mainly the task manager being disabled.
 
Thanks guys looks like I’ve managed to sort it out, it’s not worth the time & effort training them not to install anything that pops up as its will be like taking to a brick wall :D I just need to sort out software that will stop anything like this infecting the system, where they seemed to come from is silly little 3D games and internet toolbars, being an administrator is it wise for me to set a normal user account?
 
fothsn said:
Well they seem to be games and silly internet tool bars that are causing the problems, I can safely say it’s not warez there defiantly not the type of people plus there are no signs of illegal content on the HDD, just seems to be about 5 different toolbars in IE :p I thought this wasn’t possible due to the sandbox thing and protected mode? About 7 seem to be located in the temp folder which I’ve now deleted just trying to sort the others out.
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To get rid of the silly toolbars just disable third party apps in IE

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-> Tools
-> Options
-> Advanced


It's somewhere in that long list, works wonders for people intent on populating it with the latest junk (and for those who just don't know how to say no)
 
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