Danestress Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 from Windows Firewall (Which I didn't know I had!) It says that a Trojan-Spy thingy is being detected. I ran Mcafee. It found nothing. I downloaded the newest version of Spyblaster. Nothing. So am I in a critical situation? What should I do? When I click "enable protection" it tries to sell me spyware detectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenn in Mo Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 DO NOT DO IT!!!!!!!! Dh has been getting LOTS of these into his repair shop lately. Some so advanced that he had to wipe them clean and reinstall windows....his absolute last choice. Nasty stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenn in Mo Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Wait....you already clicked on it? Did you accept anything from it? If I understand this stuff correctly, you DON'T have windows firewall loaded on your computer. It is just a very clever pop-up. Very authentic looking. It gets past all of your virus detection by asking you to let it in. People are a much easier route than around virus detectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danestress Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 Yes! I clicked on "enable protection" but then what came up was a PC Pro add which supposedly scans. I did actually download it and it found about 12,000 security violations but then I aborted and went to "add/delete" and deleted the program because I wanted to make sure I was doing the right thing. Have I totally screwed up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenn in Mo Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Yuck. Yes. Deleting it doesn't actually delete it. You didn't really have 12,000 violations. Don't worry about that part. You just need rid of this thing now. Google "malwarebytes" and download it. It is a free program that takes care of most of these. There is an upgrade/pay version, but you don't need it. Stick with the free. Dh says this should fix it. hth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 My Norton protection just flashed something about the page not being safe when I just posted something. I didn't do anything about it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danestress Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 Thank you so much for your help, and thank your husband for me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danestress Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 with software Jenn's husband recommended, and it seems to be gone now. Also, my computer is running faster. I don't think it's my imagination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 You got lucky. I got pop ups like that, didn't click to allow downloads or anything, and it still got past Norton and killed my hard drive. My hard drive had to be rebuilt and I lost everything that was on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogpond1 Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 completely redone. There is a fake Windows thing going around and it is very bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmamainva Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 The same thing happened to us about 6 months ago and we had to have our computer completely rebuilt. The thing basically imploded -- cascade failure from the outside in. It's a bad one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawn of ns Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Just as a note in case anyone goes through what Danestress has, this sounds like a classic SmitFraud infection. You get a warning of infection and are then urged to buy some software. In some cases, like mine a couple of weeks ago your destop changes as well.:blushing: Malwarebites will help but SmitFraud Fix is a more specific tool. All directions are in the link. It may take awhile to run (hours) but it will do a much more thorough job. Danestress - I'd even reccomend you STILL run it even though your problem seems to be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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