Help, A Virus maybe?

Hey,

since yesterday, random popups appear about spyware/virus protection. (IE)
Then these programs take place in the tray at the bottom, which I know i did not install.

Then Adobe Dreamever randomly pops up every 2min or so.

What is wrong? A virus? IF so, what do I need to do?

THanks,
Vedya

 

You need to run a virus scanner and spyware scanner to get rid of all that junk.

 

Run something like Panda from a flashdrive so you don't have to install it on your harddrive. For future protection against this stuff, I'd try Norton's.

 

norton is terrible period

use avast

and do these things http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic58138.html

 

Norton's pre-2008 - Terrible
Norton's 2008 - Great
Jcovelli, have you actually tried running NIS2008?

 

Run SUPERAntiSpyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/

 

no... because it's terrible

http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-se...antivirus-2008-with/4505-3667_7-32588377.html

http://review.zdnet.com/internet-se...ntivirus-2008-with/4505-3667_16-32588377.html

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=1272

(there's a few hundred others also)

paying for crap is not good

 

to jcovelli - NO, its not terrible. Norton, latest, are good and nice and great and right up there at the front with other AV's. Period.

To the OP, I would run a virus scan, spyware and malware scan - all of these complete scans.. it shud find all the junk you are seeing out there... as for the tools, I think u must be already using pretty good AV and ASW tools..

 

If you don't have either download Malwarebytes AntiMalware and Avira Free and run them both. Make sure to update before running.

You can find the links here.


http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=190538

 

If he did he probably wouldn't be asking here.

 

Since everyone is recommending apps. I highly recommend Avira AV and SuperAntiSpyware. Those 2 will clean your system. :]

 

Yeah, I should have included SAS too since I use it real time. However, I've seen where similar behavior as the OP's lappy was cleaned it up completely by Malwarebytes.

 

How do u do that?

BTW, to the OP....Panda Antivirus is very good IMO.

 

id suggest avast free edition. Always done a great job on my laptop

 

IIRC, you install it on a flash drive, and somewhere there's an option to scan the entire computer. Handy little trick.

You just picked the first three off of Google. The third one gave it a solid 4 star review. Also, if you look at CNET's other review, it got 5 stars.
http://www.download.com/Norton-AntiVirus/3000-2239_4-10731885.html
The 4th link for "Norton antivirus 2008 review" on Google brings up this one http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/norton-review.html
It also gives Norton's a solid 3/4. Hope this opens your mind a bit.

 

actually the USER REVIEWS only gave it a 2/5 and 2/4

 

Ahh ha...you know I was thinking that, then I said to myself that wouldn't work...but I guess it will...will have to try it some time for myself!
+Rep nevertheless

 

Haha thanks!

 

I think the reviews sum it up pretty well. "Pretty solid protection, but 6X the size of the other AV Applications". I used NAV for years, and it never let me down. But I got tired of it getting larger and slower every year.

 

Yep, but if you pay a little extra for more RAM and a better processor, it works perfectly fine, and really doesn't deserve the bashing it gets online. I do agree on the fact of it getting bigger and slower -- until 2008. It was recoded from thee bottom up and is a much better product than the previous years. I stopped using it after 2005, when it was just too bad and resource sucking to use correctly.