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12 Aug 2016 | #1 |
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win7 couldn't boot because of PUP.Optional.Goobzo?
hi, my win7 64 bit machine had been acting weird this week. initially it started with randomly freeze, then it refused to boot,only giving me blank screen.
i booted into safe mode and ran both MS forefront and Malwarebytes, forefront didn't detect anything unusual, while Malwarebytes reports detecting 'PUP.Optional.Goobzo', i removed it and rebooted, everything seems fine. does this 'Goobzo' cause random freeze and prevent windows from normal booting? or there's something else deeper wrong with my pc? |
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12 Aug 2016 | #2 |
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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You may like to read this which gives a goodexplanation for this PUP.Optional.Goobzo Trojan:
PUP.Optional.Goobzo - Virus Lists and Removal Steps So the short answer to your question is "Yes" If you Google MS Forefront you will see that it is basically obsolete. What anti virus software are you running? |
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12 Aug 2016 | #3 |
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Because Goobzo is an adware, definitely yes. It hijacks your main homepage and changes your homepage from your default to Goobzo's which isn't safe to use because while you're getting the info you want the virus is already collecting your data. Nothing's wrong with your PC now except for that.
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12 Aug 2016 | #4 |
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You may like to read this which gives a goodexplanation for this PUP.Optional.Goobzo Trojan:
PUP.Optional.Goobzo - Virus Lists and Removal Steps So the short answer to your question is "Yes" If you Google MS Forefront you will see that it is basically obsolete. What anti virus software are you running? i ran Malwarebytes first in normal boot mode and it didn't detect 'Goobzo', then after a few random freezes and hard resets, i couldn't boot into normal mode anymore. I normally log into win7 machine with a user account without admin privilege to prevent virus/malware making changes to the OS. but the malware still manages slipping through. Forefront is the only anti virus i use on this machine, to keep the AV software footprint at minimum...other AV softwares consume too much memory since my machine has limited RAM (2GB) |
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12 Aug 2016 | #5 |
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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I normally log into win7 machine with a user account without admin privilege to prevent virus/malware making changes to the OS. but the malware still manages slipping through.
Forefront is the only anti virus i use on this machine, to keep the AV software footprint at minimum...other AV softwares consume too much memory since my machine has limited RAM (2GB) |
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