Advice needed on a virus

aido_2006

Hi,

Have a mate who has been having alot of probs with viruses/spyware... basically have scanned with avg, avast and they find nothing so we downloaded bazooka which found 4 threats... in order to get these viruses off we had to go into the registry and look for certain files, none of the files where there... We had also scanned with ad-aware but it crashes during the scan everytime, so we re-installed it and same problem.. eventually we used spybot which took alot of crap off and then ran bazooka again which only found one threat which was some sort of startup threat... his computer seems to be running ok bar ad-aware which is still just constantly crashing...

Has anyone any ideas or ever come across a situation like this??

formatman

try spyhunter from www.enigmasoftwaregroup.com

about 30 dollars for a 1 year licence

finds most stuff norton leaves behind

otherwise can recommend someone to do it as a nixor

aido_2006

Will let him know... cheers!!

NutJob

Get Xp sp2 on it

Get avg (antivirus free edition)
Get a firewall (the one that omes with xp Sp2 is ok)
Get Spybot anty spyeware


Kiss an evening goodbye a few bottles of beer help

its all free except the beer

aido_2006

NutJob wrote:

Get Xp sp2 on it

Get avg (antivirus free edition)
Get a firewall (the one that omes with xp Sp2 is ok)
Get Spybot anty spyeware


Kiss an evening goodbye a few bottles of beer help

its all free except the beer

We have all them on it Nutjob, Beer sounds good tho!!!

Zoned

I spent ages workin on mates PC getting rid of spyware using Spybot, Adaware ...etc.. and it just kept coming back....

I eventually found a rootkit by scanning the drive from another PC...

Checl out http://www.antirootkit.com....

you'll be amazed at what the F$%^$%rs can do with OUR pc's..

good luck,

zoned

NutJob

Zoned wrote:

I spent ages workin on mates PC getting rid of spyware using Spybot, Adaware ...etc.. and it just kept coming back....

I eventually found a rootkit by scanning the drive from another PC...

Checl out http://www.antirootkit.com....

you'll be amazed at what the F$%^$%rs can do with OUR pc's..

good luck,

zoned

Thanks for the new toys all i ever used was rootkit revealer

much appreciated

www.rootkit.com is good if u like looking at the code behind opensource rootkits for want of a better description.

aido_2006

Zoned wrote:

I spent ages workin on mates PC getting rid of spyware using Spybot, Adaware ...etc.. and it just kept coming back....

I eventually found a rootkit by scanning the drive from another PC...

Checl out http://www.antirootkit.com....

you'll be amazed at what the F$%^$%rs can do with OUR pc's..

good luck,

zoned

Will see him tomorrow so will give that a try zoned, cheers!!