another virus infiltrated my security essentials

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  1. Posts : 156
    Win 7, 32bit, Premium
       #11

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    I might look into the kapersky stuff. I keep hearing a lot of people say it's the best out there.[/QUOTE]



    Does MSE have a URL checker ? Most of the time I have contacted a virus/malware it has been while clicking URLs after a search.

    I use Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 which performs well. Check Amazon and other online retailers, average cost is $20-25 for 1 year license. As stated above, no system is perfect. MSE gets positive reviews in this forum.

    Let me say I am not a patient person. But with a virus you have as described above by Golden, I would recommend backup and clean install to positively insure it is removed.
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  2. Posts : 118
    windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #12




    Does MSE have a URL checker ? Most of the time I have contacted a virus/malware it has been while clicking URLs after a search.

    I use Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 which performs well. Check Amazon and other online retailers, average cost is $20-25 for 1 year license. As stated above, no system is perfect. MSE gets positive reviews in this forum.

    Let me say I am not a patient person. But with a virus you have as described above by Golden, I would recommend backup and clean install to positively insure it is removed.

    no it doesn't have url checker but IE9 and firefox both do. but unless people are reporting the sites it goes unflagged.

    oh I can tell you it's gone. you should have seen what it did to it. I couldn't even open the start menu. it was all blank. so I couldn't even access the control panel or nothing.
    so this time I set some keyboard hotkeys to access all of the important things like the control panel, system retore, backup, etc.
    I have external drives with a backup of all my important stuff along with a system image.

    none of the malware removers find it in my system after MSE ran the third removal attempt. so I'm pretty confident it's gone.
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  3. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #13

    Hi,

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have the situation where it keeps returning by itself? You should reset your DNS as the Win32/Alureon family hijacks it for its own use. You need to reset your DNS.

    Copy the following text exactly as shown into a new instance of NotePad:

    @Echo on
    pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc
    attrib -h -s -r hosts
    echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS
    attrib +r +h +s hosts
    popd
    ipconfig /release
    ipconfig /renew
    ipconfig /flushdns
    netsh winsock reset all
    netsh int ip reset all
    shutdown -r -t 1
    del %0


    Save this to your DESKTOP as FLUSH.BAT

    Right-click on FLUSH.BAT and choose 'Run as administrator'. Your PC will reboot itself.

    Regards,
    Golden
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  4. Posts : 186
    Windows Seven, Ubuntu
       #14

    Start using noscript
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  5. Posts : 118
    windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #15

    Golden said:
    Hi,

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have the situation where it keeps returning by itself? You should reset your DNS as the Win32/Alureon family hijacks it for its own use. You need to reset your DNS.

    Copy the following text exactly as shown into a new instance of NotePad:

    @Echo on
    pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc
    attrib -h -s -r hosts
    echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS
    attrib +r +h +s hosts
    popd
    ipconfig /release
    ipconfig /renew
    ipconfig /flushdns
    netsh winsock reset all
    netsh int ip reset all
    shutdown -r -t 1
    del %0

    Save this to your DESKTOP as FLUSH.BAT

    Right-click on FLUSH.BAT and choose 'Run as administrator'. Your PC will reboot itself.

    Regards,
    Golden

    no it seems to be fine. it's not acting up or anything.
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  6. Posts : 3,960
    W7 x64
       #16

    I do not find MSE at all as good as NOD32, have run comparison scans on infected archives and MSE misses a very significant number of finds that ESET manages to identify...
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  7. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #17

    No wonder, Eset is top shelf.
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