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federicopetro

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i need help
« on: August 17, 2005, 04:39:42 PM »
hi i need help because when i want to enter to my mozilla firefox i cannot because it doesn t recognize my interet connection but it is working !!!!! what i am doing bad ??? i think is spyware someone installed in my pc a program to steal someting relationed to msn i think i have a cool web search hijack or sumthing please help thank you you are the best friends

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Re: i need help
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2005, 04:55:26 PM »
Do you have protection against viruses and Spyware? Does Internet Explorer work ok? How do you connect to the internet?

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Re: i need help
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2005, 05:05:45 PM »
Virus scanners
AVG Free
-- Anti virus scanner
Trend Micro Housecall
-- Online anti virus scanner.

Anti spy/malware
Microsoft Antispyware
-- Anti spyware scanner. Windows XP Home and Professional only.
Spybot Search & Destroy
-- Anti spyware scanner
Adaware SE Personal
-- Anti spyware scanner

Firewalls
Use both a hardware and software firewall.
Be advised as dual software firewalls may cause problems


ZoneAlarm Free
-- Free firewall - more user friendly
Sygate Personal
-- Free firewall - more configuration options

Removal tools
The following files are not substitutes for the ones described above.
They are either diagnostic tools or removal tools for malware of a certain kind


HijackThis
-- Manual malware remover. Post the HijackThis log generated only if requested!
McAfee Stinger
-- Virus removal tool. No substitute for a fully functional virus scanner!
CWshredder
-- CoolWebSearch removal tool. Widely known and persistant Hijacker.

federicopetro

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Re: i need help
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2005, 05:10:17 PM »
yes but i use mozilla no internet explorer i have avg 7.0 but it doesn t seem to detect something and  have ad aware but it detect this thing but it doesn t repair this problem i don t know hot to repair this but please i doesn t want to reformat well bye please help me




ps: thank you for response you are the best guys

ps2: i use broadband

federicopetro

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Re: i need help
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2005, 05:16:48 PM »
thanks for this quickly response  ;) but this problem doesnt let me to download the spybot and i cannot autenticate this pc to dwnlad microsoft antispyware this is a cybercoffe pc well bye goodbye thank you anyway  

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Re: i need help
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2005, 05:21:48 PM »
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Huh i think is spyware someone installed in my pc a program to steal someting relationed to msn i think i have a cool web search hijack or sumthing please help thank you you are the best friends


If none of your scanners detect this, it is time to SWITCH.

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    Re: i need help
    « Reply #6 on: August 17, 2005, 09:43:03 PM »
    Can you start in safe mode with networking than download and run cwshredder from Raptor's list above?