My question is about how heavily Bitdefender Antivirus Plus is on the system. Does it slow things down noticeable? How does it compare to others?
Hi StevieO. Thanks for responding. I try very hard not to click on the wrong things on web sites. If a window pops up, I close it by clicking...
I need some opinions about this. I was surfing (using Opera 8.54). When I surfed into one page my Anti-virus software (Dr. Web) sounded the alarm....
Hi. I've read the thread but I think I am not updating correctly. What I did is select Options|Change Settings|Update. Then for the URL I put...
You could reboot in safe mode. Search for the file. Delete all copies, or move it into a zip for safe keeping and testing later. If you feel...
It cannot come back from a formatting. The only way it might still be around is if you restore it from a backup. Do you happen to know how you...
There is more than one spybot worm, and it could be this one: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SPYBOT.GEN
I didn't even know about that. Thanks. It looks like on my computer the Protected Storage doesn't run under pstores.exe. I was also able to...
I know there is software that looks for processes or services that that should not be there and might be the result of malware. But are there...
I'm looking into wormguard, but I worry about having two scanners hitting the same area. I actually witnessed two AV scanners let eicar open when...
Thank you Gavin and Dollefie. I just went in and switched VBS to notepad. I'll have to think about Java Script, though. I think that might be...
Hi Dollefie. Thanks for the link. It shows how to remove the ability for any script to run. DiamondCS RegistryProt only took issue with one...
Hi, I noticed you mention that the Win32 thing continued to try to call out. How did you search to find it? The reason I ask is if you...
Hi. When I was installing DiamondCS RegistryProt, it announced startup points to me and asked me whether to allow them. I understood all of...
This is just a follow-up, and maybe it will help someone else who gets hit with this. 1. I was able to get all my icons working again by...
Pieter, Thanks for the tip on the program. And thanks for staying with this exploration of the problem. I didn't get a chance to use the...
Pieter, The only standard Windows tray icon I had was volume control and it still works. Zone Alarm and Post-It Notes remained and still...
Hi Blackcat, My testing was not perfect. When I tested KAV I would let it load along with AVG, but then I would kill AVG's processes in memory....
Hi. I am also shopping for new AV software and reading the threads here. Is there some trick to setting up KAV so it doesn't slow down the...
Thanks, n8chavez. I didn't even think to press on that person picture. BTW, I found where to set up automatic update, so I'm set with that.
I think maybe I didn't explain well enough. The problem I'm seeing is that there are regular programs (not malware) in Machine Run that used to...
Here are a couple things I learned from this. 1. No matter how much I think I know about safe practices, it is still possible to make a...
From what I've read about the behavior, I'd say it's a worm/trojan.
Thanks, Paul. That jogged my thinking and now I've discovered how quite a few things work.
I running the trial version of Dr. Web and I cannot figure out how to use the scan tree panel. I click on the drives and they get a mark on them,...
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