Possible Virus or Attack on my system!

netwhizkid

I just scanned my PC with Norton AV 2005, Ad-Aware SE Personal and with Spybot - Search & Destroy. Neither Norton nor Ad-aware found anything but Spybot found this, Now I’m not quite sure what it it is. But when clicking on the bit in the black circle it gave me this. Should I be worried or is this not serious at all? I’m going backing up my important stuff now incase it is bad. I have clicked “fix selected problems” in spybot but I wonder will that kill off the thing. (I also had just updated my virus definitions on Ad-aware and spybot which may have helped catch this)

It said a registry change, Like how serious is that? or what exactly does entail or consist of.

Thanks in Advance!

aidan_walsh

That registry entry is used by the Windows Security Centre, telling it that you have a third party antivirus package that it doesn't connect to, that you're going to monitor it yourself, and its not to keep throwing up a display telling you that you don't have an AV installed. Most likely, Norton put it there.

You can right click on that entry and tell Spybot not to pick it up in future.

netwhizkid

aidan_walsh wrote:

That registry entry is used by the Windows Security Centre, telling it that you have a third party antivirus package that it doesn't connect to, that you're going to monitor it yourself, and its not to keep throwing up a display telling you that you don't have an AV installed. Most likely, Norton put it there.

You can right click on that entry and tell Spybot not to pick it up in future.

Thnaks for that Aidan Typical Norton eh? :rolleyes: I'll be switching to AVG as soon as my Norton expires anyway. Although it never throws up the display telling me I have no av installed only when I switch it off while trouble shooting!

aidan_walsh

netwhizkid wrote:

Typical Norton eh?

Typical of most AVs that don't include an interface to the Security Centre, since I gather its the prefered method. Anyway, the option gets added by the SC itself if you manually check the "I have a third party AV yadda yadda" box.

angelofdeath

yeah its legit and nothing to scoff at norton about, bad as it is, it's just that spybot tends to throw up reg entries and cookies etc that are legit as well as ones that are actually harmful, so just tell spybot to ignore them in future