Goin' crazy faster and faster!

[eugene]

I have a real dilemma. I had to get my PC reformatted last week. Okay, so it
now should be like it came out of the factory (according to my supplier
anyway). The very second I went
on-line, I was swamped with viruses........67 of them! I took the machine
back to my supplier who cleaned out the registry without reformatting again
and he installed a pro version of AVG. I then re-connected everything last
night and I immediately began to get hit again! At one stage, my browser was
hijacked and porn sites (gay ones to add insult to injury) were added to My
Favourites. My screen went all off
colour and AVg was picking up viruses that it could not delete or
quarantine! One in particular which kept popping up was Trojan horse small
13n and when this warning appeared, I could not even get rid of the
warning screen. When I tried to close it, it asked, "Do you really want to
open the infected file". Another was something like,."WUactld.exe has
encountered a problem and will now close. Another Pop-up just said "AnHTML"
with a blank box! I ran Spybot and Adaware and Spybot showed DSO Exploit
every time I ran it (even after I "fixed" it!
"So, my PC is back with my supplier again and he is
stumped. He insists that I must be doing something that I shouldn't be doing
but I am not! I have told him that I am using my old system (right now eg)
and that the settings are all identical to those on the newer PC! Can
anybody please advise me? This is driving me nuts! I bought the new machine
a few months ago partly because of how badly infected this machine was at
that time. The only difference is that this PC is ME and the new one is XP.
Please somebody help me out here? I have been posting stuff around this
current problems for over a week now and either no one can suggest anything
or no one wants to help.......please.....anybody


Eugene

 

[Peacekeeper]

When you went online was the XP firewall enabled that should stop/slow down
trojan access. till you get windows fully updated.

Has the current ME pc got a firewall?

I have noticed spybot shows the DSO error/exploit always as well I think
this is probably a bug. ( someone more experienced with spybot better
comment)

 

[Jo]

...should be like it came out of the factory...

....which is the reason for your problem. *Insist* that your supplier
gets his head out of his ass and installs Service Pack 2, with the
Windows Firewall switched on, and an antivirus program *before* you
go near the Internet. Then immediately after you first go on-line,
update the AV programs virus database definitions.

Or find another supplier.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I have a real dilemma. I had to get my PC reformatted last week.
Okay, so it now should be like it came out of the factory
(according to my supplier anyway). The very second I went on-line,
I was swamped with viruses........67 of them!

The very second? What told you that you had 67 viruses in a second?

I took the machine back to my supplier who cleaned out the registry
without reformatting again and he installed a pro version of AVG.

Did this supplier turn on the firewall? If not ... I would find
another supplier.

You have twenty minutes.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/262

 

[Steve]

I have a real dilemma. I had to get my PC reformatted last week.
Okay, so it now should be like it came out of the factory (according
to my supplier anyway). The very second I went
on-line, I was swamped with viruses........67 of them! I took the
machine back to my supplier who cleaned out the registry without
reformatting again and he installed a pro version of AVG. I then
re-connected everything last night and I immediately began to get hit
again! At one stage, my browser was hijacked and porn sites (gay ones
to add insult to injury) were added to My Favourites. My screen went
all off
colour and AVg was picking up viruses that it could not delete or
quarantine! One in particular which kept popping up was Trojan horse
small 13n and when this warning appeared, I could not even get rid of
the
warning screen. When I tried to close it, it asked, "Do you really
want to open the infected file". Another was something
like,."WUactld.exe has encountered a problem and will now close.
Another Pop-up just said "AnHTML" with a blank box! I ran Spybot and
Adaware and Spybot showed DSO Exploit every time I ran it (even after
I "fixed" it! "So, my PC is back with my supplier again and he is
stumped. He insists that I must be doing something that I shouldn't
be doing but I am not! I have told him that I am using my old system
(right now eg) and that the settings are all identical to those on
the newer PC! Can anybody please advise me? This is driving me nuts!
I bought the new machine a few months ago partly because of how badly
infected this machine was at that time. The only difference is that
this PC is ME and the new one is XP. Please somebody help me out
here? I have been posting stuff around this current problems for over
a week now and either no one can suggest anything or no one wants to
help.......please.....anybody


Eugene

Eugene:

If your HD was reformatted and then the OS and factory supplied apps were
reinstalled, then your PC should be sufficiently clean that immediately
going on the internet should not swamp you with viruses. Been there and
done that enough times with different versions of Windows (including ME,
mentioned by you) to know this.

I would suggest that your supplier is either not being straight with your or
that they are incompetent. If I were you, I would find a NEW supplier.

Good luck,

Steve

 

[eugene]

"The very second? What told you that you had 67 viruses in a second?"


eugene wrote....The very moment I connected to the Internet a multitude of
warnings began to pop up! There were 67 when they stopped!

Did this supplier turn on the firewall? If not ... I would find
another supplier.


eugene wrote...... I don't know if he did or not. How can I find out where
my firewall is. I assumed it was on my connection disk (supplied by BT) but
I have no idea how it functions as I thought it was automatic
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty"

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

"The very second? What told you that you had 67 viruses in a
second?"

Please set your newsreader to quote the message when you reply.

eugene wrote....The very moment I connected to the Internet a
multitude of warnings began to pop up! There were 67 when they
stopped!

Again, *what* told you there were 67 viruses? Do the warnings say they
are from AVG? We need to know because 'warnings' can come from
multiple places.

What is the *name* of the viruses? Usually something like: W32.MyDoom

Did this supplier turn on the firewall? If not ... I would find
another supplier.

eugene wrote...... I don't know if he did or not. How can I find
out where my firewall is. I assumed it was on my connection disk
(supplied by BT) but I have no idea how it functions as I thought
it was automatic "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"

There is a software firewall contained in the XP operating system.
What is this "BT"? Your ISP? No, they do not supply firewalls.

<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/icf.mspx>

 

[FACE]

Spybot showed DSO Exploit
every time I ran it (even after I "fixed" it!

You need to update that one. The latest definition file will not report the
DSO Exploit (which I understand to be a Windows 98 SE security problem)
every time.


FACE