I'm having some computer problems- maybe malware, spybots, viruses, whatever goodies modern vandals have created. Lots of people around that can give me advice, but I get online and my computer slowly freezes up. Light to no posting until I figure out what's going on... later, folks.
I had the same problem-I ended up reformatting and reinstalling XP-probably overreacted. I had thought maybe we had a rootkit. I had done a couple of rootkit checks and came up empty, and Malwarebytes AM/Windows Def. came up empty, but AVG kept catching all sorts of weird stuff. Common/program files were getting infected with this weird trojan. (forgot name, but it began with a Firefox exploit.)
ReplyDeleteMalwarebytes Antimalware, if you don't already have it, is essential-it has saved my butt more than a few times.
My daughter's computer got the nastiest virus that kept bringing up pop ups that were almost identical to windows security warnings.
ReplyDeleteI hate those people that write that crap. What a waste of time.