My Buttons are Magic! Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 what is http://puresafetyhere.com/? DONT CLICK ON IT - could harm your computer is it a virus?/spyware?/adware? it seems to have infected itself on my computer since last sunday night to t onight.. (i havent been on it.. my dad was and its him that discovered it) it keeps saying i have viruses on my computer and i need to download such and such.. (obviously i havent cause im not stupid) but it seems to have hijaccked my internet homepage (which was google) to their website.. anyhelp on gettin rid of it would be helpful my virus scan isnt brining up anything
Sanchez Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 Run an online scan, http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/ What's your antivirus, any anti spyware? Make sure you use firefox or something other than IE. Also, I assume you're running Windows XP SP2?
My Buttons are Magic! Posted February 16, 2008 Author Posted February 16, 2008 i have internet explorer (meh) i have mcafee virus scan and its currently scanning the computer for the last hour but no luck is there a way to get rid of it?
Sanchez Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 i have internet explorer (meh)i have mcafee virus scan and its currently scanning the computer for the last hour but no luck is there a way to get rid of it? As I said, run an online scan: http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/ What you're describing is adware, so you should also get spybot if the online scan doesn't catch it. (you should get spybot anyway actually.) http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Also in future I'd like to recommend you upgrade to a better antivirus, if someone is willing to pay then NOD32 is the best. (eset.com)
Guest Jordan Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 Easiest way of getting rid of this problem: Start > Run type "msconfig" (without the ") Do a print screen of the start up tab. We'll see if theres anything dodgy from that.
Tellyn Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 Does it auto-download something when you click on it? I was using my mouse to scroll when this page was loading. And just my luck, the middle mouse button did a click instead of a scroll, and the mouse was conveniently placed over the link. I clicked cancel on the pop-up window and closed the tab, but did it infect me? EDIT: Nevermind, I'll just run every anti virus program I have.
My Buttons are Magic! Posted February 16, 2008 Author Posted February 16, 2008 i honestly dont know... i dont know how we got it :| easiest way is to go onto the internet if you automatically go to their page u have it heres the printscreens : edit: the printscreens will be coming in ONE MOMENTS stupid thing has my computer running slow FINALLY -
Sanchez Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 See, that's why I hate mcafee, look at all those processes. That EbatesMoeMoney is part of the problem at least. That WTools is spyware as well, untick those.
My Buttons are Magic! Posted February 16, 2008 Author Posted February 16, 2008 i think that the dll files are part of it too cause i found something about them on another website
Konfucius Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 I agree with Sanchez, get rid of those. That mwsoemon.exe is also adware. Simply deactivate it or follow this guide: http://www.mac-net.com/445088.page Also loettp.exe and bvuekekg.exe could be suspicious but google doesn't come up with anything at all but they are not essential windows processes that is for sure, so deactivate them. Also get PrcView. It shows information on any running processes (although they author of the process can input that information himself, but still you should be able to determine at least what the clean processes are). and a² is also a pretty good malware scanner, a bit slow though.
McPhee Posted February 16, 2008 Posted February 16, 2008 i have internet explorer (meh)i have mcafee virus scan and its currently scanning the computer for the last hour but no luck is there a way to get rid of it? Using McAfee Virus Scanner is a bigger sin than using IE, believe me. To avoid the porblem in future buy this: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=668400 Using Firefox with the NoScript plug-in wouldn't hurt either. That stops 99% of problems because it disables Javascript (it also stops most web pages from working properly, but you can set exceptions)
My Buttons are Magic! Posted February 24, 2008 Author Posted February 24, 2008 well.. it seems to have gone tho we have upgraded the security bit still backing up EVERYTHING on my computer tho but it says we have more now :S
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