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Spybot & Avast users, Attention! Jaace...please.
OK,first,I have convinced myself more then once,that my joking on English classes,cheating on tests and making fun of quite well oriented English language teacher which was usually ended with expelling from classes,was one of my biggest misstakes in my schooling,and as time passing by I feel it on my skin even harder and harder.
So,I have a problem with Avast,Spybot(hopefully,it isn't pandemic because I haven't read anything about something similar in SevenForum),Malwarebytes,and few other security related things here,and I'll try to explain it with my limited English vocabular(so please,forgive me on misstakes).
It starts approximately like this:"Once upon a time....."...sorry,not Cinderella,but also "smells" like Charles Perrault,Grimm brothers or Hans Christian Andersen wrote it.
Let's start:came home,PC was on as I left it,DSL lamp blinks-internet connected,mouse move and monitor is up from stand by.
Arghhh,picture I never like to see blinks at the center of the screen,but OK,it's just report that Avast blocks some nasty parasite from the net,and require my further reaction.BTW,Avast Proffessional is running as it does all the time,Spybot is running also,Malwarebytes residental protection also running,and Windows 7(Vista) firewall is also running till we find something like ZoneAlarm smoothly runs in full win7 compatibility mode,BUT(there has to be BUT,or there is no story,right?).....
Action Center reports that Windows firewall is NOT running
OK,easy boy,we'll deal with that soon as we fix the Avast thing,so let's see what Avast has?
Avast found trojan(Win32/tralalala) in Spybot updates,and it's called:GREEKFIX.EXE !
Once again,it is(is it?) Spybot's update:SpybotSnD(checkout "SnD",not "S&D")/updates/Greekfix.exe(is it REALLY Spybot's update??)
No matter,blah,"Move to chest" is my friend.Upss,can't process it first time so delete it(even on first reboot if necessary).Access denied???
OK,I think disconnect is necessary at the moment I think,so let's do it.
First successfull command by now.Now we should stop Spybot's Tea Timer and residental protection so we can access the process and kill it in Taskbar manager,and let Avast do it's job.Maximize Spybot from task bar first....beeeep:Access denied (code nr.5 something),and I dont have Admin rights to do this??Actually,I AM the only one who uses this PC,and this is the only account,but OK,I can still access it through desktop-run as an administrator,and kill it then.It starts to open,again message"code 5-Access denied....(something)",and a second or two after:"Windows are shutting down in a 60 seconds,please save your work",and it did shutted down without any reason!
OK,what is done,is done,maybe it'll be better after boot up,or maybe Avast will clean infected file..
Hell no!!!
Everything boots up(almost everything) and let's see now.
1.Action Center reports that Windows firewall is down.
2.There is no Malwarebytes&Avast icons in the corner taskbar,but empty spaces instead.
3.Avast suddenly DEMANDS registration when I run it through desktop icon,even if it is normally registered,and it shows the date of expiration in "About Avast".
4.Simple UI shows automatic updates manage database only(That's not true!)
5.Avast also shows that virus recovery database(VRDB) is not done yet(You guess?)
6.More then half options are in joyfull "grey" colour and aren't accessible.
7.I run Malwarebytes scan,and guess what?Found NOTHING!
8.Managed to run SpybotS&D through desktop and "run as an administrator" option,but when tried to update,guess what?Access denied!
9.Managed to run Spybot scan,and guess what?Found NOTHING(with few days old definitions tough)and even cogratulates
10.Suddenly decided to install Trojan Remover,which was sitting somewhere in Setups folder,run it and here comes something new:FOUND malicious s**t,but guess what(this part you know)?Can't deal with it because it can't access the process.
11.By the time I am writing this,see some with nothing caused unusual activities,refreshings,NETWORK activity,etc.
Now I am preparing to run Avast scan if will be possible in state Avast is.
So,what do you think after I presented you just some of the simptoms which gave me reason to be concerned(from my point of view)?
Am I overreacting or maybe there really is a tiny possibillity that I am infected?
Upss,almost forgot,Jaace,please,I am lurking this Security section for a while now,and it seems that you are almost a security guru here,do you have any advice,and recommendation of online scanner?
And of course,I hope that you have understood what I was writing,and my apologies because of my bad language,but it ain't my fault,you can suspect my English teacher for that
Cheers