I'm trying to clean the gas furnace in the garage, the pilot light went out and I'm not comfortable with the way the flame hangs out in the bottom. Cleaning time.
I Googled Bryant Model 50-341 and got answers but when I clicked in the "AskBryant.com" link, I got a promo for hairpeices, bladder measuring devices etc.
WTF?
The Google homepage looks a little different too.
I bought AGV virus scan, nfg. That crazy pop up stuff is still here.
Dan
You're infected. I think you're going to have to do a clean format/reinstall. You can try getting a different machine and googling all the weird stuff it's doing and see if anyone has beaten that one, but it's a bad one. I think it takes over the boot sector and goes from there.
www.lavasoft.com and download ad-aware, that should help you get rid of that stuff. If you are using internet explorer, I suggest changing to firefox or google chrome.
Do you have another, uninfected computer? If so, see if you can get one of the downloadable scanners that you can boot from a CD. Download that on a known good computer, burn it and use it to scan your infected machine.
I could mail you one but by the time that will have crossed the Atlantic, it'll be weeks. Postal service from the UK to the US is really not very good.
Thanks for the help, but ALL of these guys look the same. Enter your contact info, Credit Card number etc., who can you trust?
Dan
COMBOFIX
download from bleeping computer
seriously
I can download McAfee and Symantec free at work. Any preferences?
I bought AGV, will either of these fight with AGV and make a bigger PITA?
Dan
McAfee and Symantec are crap (though the corp edition of symantec isn't as bad as McAfee's) I'd still rock AVG or go with TrendMicro.
Keep in mind that many pieces of malware can only be removed (if at all in some cases) by running the cleaning tool from safe mode or from a bootcd (look up BartPE for a bootcd that you can use to scan your system's drive)
Finally, do not use Internet Explorer (seriously only use it for running Windows updates) use chrome or firefox and ensure you have an adblock and javascript blocker added as extensions.
I say this because there have been more than a few nasty ads lately, so it isn't about not being annoyed it is more about safety and security. Internet Explorer is chock full of exploitable code that won't get better due to the integration with the operating system. Think of it this way, if the ads are suspect, imagine what all those bits of javascript code are doing to your machine when they don't originate from the main site you're visiting?
Malware bytes . org?
Combofix did it for me as well. My wife got one of our laptops into the exact same scenario you describe. Wonky google results, etc. McAfee would occassionally see that something was there, but couldn't fix it. Combofix did the trick.
914Driver wrote: Malware bytes . org?
Yes. The wife clicked on one of those phony security things. I tried everything I had Norton, McAfee, Adaware, and some other stuff I downloaded for free. They would act like they got rid of it but it would pop back up.
Finally got MalwareBytes and it cleaned it all up.
914Driver wrote: Malware bytes . org?
Fixed my problems with them the other day. Spent almost 2 hours on it. Seems to be running better (found 216 infected files) and I run the free AVG antivirus program.
I tried downloading Malwarebytes last night, I ended up with something else masquerading as Malwarebytes.
Time for professional intervention.
Dan
turboswede wrote: Finally, do not use Internet Explorer (seriously only use it for running Windows updates) use chrome or firefox
Quoted for truth. Seriously, if you use Internet Explorer, you're dating Typhoid Mary. There are about 150 KNOWN and UNPATCHED security exploits in IE, many of which are extremely severe. It's so bad that both France and Germany have taken official positions urging their citizens to not use IE, for security reasons.
It's also an utter piece of garbage. It's slow, lacks features, has a terrible rendering engine, pathetic javascript support, and, of course, comes with all those built-in security flaws.
Meanwhile, you have at least FOUR top-notch alternative choices: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and even Opera are all much more secure than IE, much faster, and offer more features. And they're all free. Personally I like Safari, but try 'em out and see which one YOU like.
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