Security warning

[Guest]

Today I was infected with Spyware Quake. I have removed most of it but I am
left with a security alert that pops up from time to time saying something
like 'The current Web page is trying to open an internet site....etc.

Can anyone tell me if this is a genuine IE warning, and how to stop it
and/or remove the remaining bit of Spyware Quake that may be the cause.

I get this warning even when i do not have a browser window open.

Regards

 

[Rob Parsons]

Hi Peter,

The security warning that you describe, I think is from Norton Internet
Security. If you don't have it installed then there is also a security
option (Internet Options, Security tab) to 'Display notification when
navigating across domains', though this should not be displaying when IE is
not even running.

Regards.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your reply. In fact I do not have any Norton components installed.

I downloaded and ran Windows Defender (beta 2) which detected 'Zolob' but
was unable to remove it. I then went to security live centre and did a full
system scan - same result - detected it but not able to remove it.

Following the advice in a thread elsewhere I ran a sequence of smitrem,
Ewido and cccleaner in safe mode. That worked.

I wasted a whole day on this - why do people do it? and perhaps we can look
forward to an OS which does not allow it.

Regards
Pete