Virus - help!

Jack2002

I recently got a few viruses on my pc and one of them seems to have deleted stuff. When I try to connect to the internet it tells me that a .dll file is misisng: winbows/system/wininet.dll

any idea what this is or how i get it back?

irlrobins

you can download it from here.

It prob got infected with a virus and was deleted by the virus scanner.

Jack2002

irlrobins wrote:

you can download it from here.

It prob got infected with a virus and was deleted by the virus scanner.

But since I can't connect to the internet on my home pc (where the virus is) how can I get the download onto my home pc?

irlrobins

Floppy? Pendrive? CD? Choice is yours!

Tom Dunne

Jack2002 wrote:

I recently got a few viruses on my pc and one of them seems to have deleted stuff.

Sounds like the virus I fixed at the weekend. You will need CWShredder to finally get rid of it. Ad-Aware and Spybot S & D won't fix it.

Jack2002

Thanks everyone for your help. I have that back on my system. I suspect there's still some strange virus present but at least it lets me log onto the internet. I tried cwshredder and that found nothing. Any other good free virus scans? (I also tried avg and ad-aware).

Orion

Don't confuse AV software with Spyware scanners. AVG is a very good AV package. Ad-Aware and Spybot look for spyware not viruses.

Fanny Cradock

try Avast! anti-virus (see the link below). Like AVG, this is also a great free anti-virus product. Alternatively, you can go to somewhere like downloads.com and download a 15 day trial of norton anti-virus (although not sure how good it is).

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Jack2002

Macros42 wrote:

Don't confuse AV software with Spyware scanners. AVG is a very good AV package. Ad-Aware and Spybot look for spyware not viruses.

What's the difference between the two (sorry, excuse my ignorance!).

Jack2002

Fanny Cradock wrote:

try Avast! anti-virus (see the link below). Like AVG, this is also a great free anti-virus product. Alternatively, you can go to somewhere like downloads.com and download a 15 day trial of norton anti-virus (although not sure how good it is).

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Thanks - will do!

smeggle

Jack2002 wrote:

Any other good free virus scans? (I also tried avg and ad-aware).

?You can try Panda Anti Virus online Active Scan. You need to use i.e., switch of any pop-up blockers and allow an active-x component install. It's helped me out a couple of times but I only recommend it as a final resort. Does work reasonably well though...

Fanny Cradock

Click the link for a newly set up government web site that should answer your questions about spyware, antivirus etc. http://www.makeitsecure.ie/home.asp

Not sure how much you know. so here goes:

*surf on trusted sights - however, it's not always possible to know this.

*download a decent web broweser i.e. firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

*Download an anti-virus programme. if, like me, you're doing it on the cheap, AVG or !avast will do just fine.

*Download a firewall like ZoneAlarm
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=GB&lang=en&lid=dbtopnav_zass

*Finally download Ad-Aware and something like Spybot
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

sorry about all the links.
I run all these programmes (all free btw) and so far i have had no problems. if you know this already i apologise.

hope it helps!!

:::edit:::
make sure to keep all these things updated or else they are of little use. udually they are automatic, but not in all cases.

smeggle

Fanny Cradock wrote:

Click the link for a newly set up government web site that should answer your questions about spyware, antivirus etc. http://www.makeitsecure.ie/home.asp

From what I've found it isn't new and after reviewing it, whilst it has 'Some' reasonable advice it is misleading in key areas and does little to offer solutions other than two 'Corparate' solutions....

Might be the reason he/she came here instead

Fanny Cradock

typical!

tbh, i just saw it advertised in the newspaper - didn't look at it in any detail myself. oh well!! :rolleyes:

smeggle

Fanny Cradock wrote:

typical!

tbh, i just saw it advertised in the newspaper - didn't look at it in any detail myself. oh well!! :rolleyes:

First came across it on national telivision, rte/network 2 have been promoting the living day lights out of it. Being the 'Nosy' git I am I had to give it a look over.

Some of the information there is good if a bit vague in some areas. There discription of virii for instance. The two recommended software solutions are ridiculiss. Microsft Anti - Spy, whilst a good responce finally to the problems, is not a tried and tested solution. It is still in 'Beta' meaning that whilst stable 'Issues' can or could arise.

It is really meant for advanced users who know how to recover there system. The people who that site is aimed at just don't have that technical knowledge and could further damage there systems trying to fix them.

There second option Symantec solutions (Better known as Norton Anti Virus) has a long history of being compromised by trojan horse type virus. Just do a search in google for "known faults with norton anti virus". Just last year there whole anti virus solution platform was totally compromised across all platforms from Corparate level to home end user level.

Still it is a start towards giving people some of the basics but it needs more options and advice areas on what to do when compromised. good places you can go for help, that kind of thing...

Jack2002

Thanks for all the advice and links. I'll check them out and see what happens!

r3l4x

You should use:

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Pro
ZoneAlarm Pro
Ad-Aware SE Personal
Spy Sweeper

I've tested by myself and I can tell you that your computer will be 98% secure.