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    Trojan and/or Virus! Please help!

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by houstoned, Jan 16, 2009.

  1. houstoned

    houstoned Yoga Pants Connoisseur.

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    hey guys, a buddy of mine has a toshiba satellite that has been actin up lately. i deleted norton off his laptop and installed AVG and ad-aware, but he never updates the programs. i think thats his problem.

    right now he has an annoying pop up and an even more annoying voice that randomly talks. it's like one of those advertisements that say, "congratulations, u have won blah blah blah."

    he is using vista sp1 so i'm sure his firewall should be fine. i have scanned with AVG and ad-aware multiple times and we still can't get rid of the annoying voice. could anyone chime in? any insight would be greatly appreciated. =)
     
    houstoned, Jan 16, 2009
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    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    a7x2thedeath Notebook Consultant

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    I know of the talking ad when viewing web pages, like "Congratulations, you have been chosen to recieve a free X-Box 360". Does this happen when he is offline, online, or viewing web pages?
     
    a7x2thedeath, Jan 16, 2009
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  4. David

    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    Try trendmicro.com. They have a free online virus scanning tool that can be quite helpful.
     
    David, Jan 16, 2009
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    Baserk Notebook user

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    Tell your friend to download MBAM, rename the the installer to m.exe to avoid detection by malware, install it, rename mbam.exe to mb.exe (or whatever name, just not mbam.exe), update the program and then run to clean infections.
    Other programs worth using are SUPERAntispyware, Smitfraudfix and DrWebCureIt.
    Check my sig for other download links.
    Cheers.
     
    Baserk, Jan 17, 2009
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  6. houstoned

    houstoned Yoga Pants Connoisseur.

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    it's just random. online, offline, or doin whatever. it'll just randomly come out of nowhere and start talking.

    i really appreciate all the quick replies. i'll give some of it a try and tell u guys how it goes.
     
    houstoned, Jan 17, 2009
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    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    Good advise. +1.

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Jan 18, 2009
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    zfactor Mastershake

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    ^^^ 100% agreed with those choices i use malwarebytes instead of superanti though myself but both are great
     
    zfactor, Jan 19, 2009
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