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You're best bet is to format your hard drive and carry out a clean install of Windows or a factory restore if you are using recovery discs.
What is privacy protection? Fake virus program?
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New #12
Following the advice by seavixen32 ...
If your computer was used for online banking or has credit card information on it, all passwords should be changed immediately to include those used for email, eBay and forums.
You should consider them to be compromised.
They should be changed by using a different computer and not the infected one, if not an attacker may get the new passwords and transaction information.
Banking and credit card institutions should be notified of the possible security breech.
More info can be found below:
How Do I Handle Possible Identify Theft, Internet Fraud and CC Fraud?
How to report ID theft, fraud, drive-by installs, hijacking and malware? Security | DSLReports.com, ISP Information
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New #13
Did I get it all out??
If I ran tdsskiller and it didn’t detect anything, and if my computer appears to be working properly (I could run my antiviral software and it didn’t come up with anything either), does that mean I’m free of this privacy protection?
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New #15
I did that, and I did a system restore after that to a few days ago, and I just want to make sure my computer is safe from that
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New #18
I've recently been hit by this too. Malwarebytes seems to have taken care of the problem already, the only concern I have are about the few items lingering in my system configuration's startup menu.
I manually disabled these when Spybot's TeaTimer (I think) was spamming me with alerts to allow or deny changes being made in my start up. This all happened when taking care of privacy protection. Since then I've updated Malwarebytes and used quick scan with no more problems being found.
A lot are the same dwme.exe in my AppData\Roaming\ folders. There's also .exe's in my C:\windows\system32\ folder.
Not sure if they're doing anything, just feel uneasy with them being there
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New #19
Hi Shift and Welcome. Exe's in system32 is fine, many Windows components live there and in system. Those listed in you snip don't look valid though. You should also run a full MalwareBytes scan.
NoteIf others have this same infection, please read through this thread and try the suggestions here. If you have no luck, start a new thread in the Security forum outlining the steps you've taken. Jacee has posted a way to manually remove Privacy Protection below.
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New #20
@jaycee:
I don't know what that is, if that's part of the privacy protection thing I don't know, but it it's a legit antiviral software I may or may not have downloaded at some previous time, no I don't have it
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