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by **curly** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:41 pm

Here are some links to free software that everyone who uses the internet ought to have as a basic requirement.

http://www.panicware.com/product_downloads.html
download Panicware's Pop-up Stopper Free Edition and surf with a bit more comfort, dead easy to set up and use.

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
download AVG Anti Virus Free Edition, register, reply to the validation email, and download, it's that simple.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
download Ad-Aware Personal SE Edition to be able to find and remove all spyware, adware, malware, Trojans, and diallers.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/down ... tant1.html
get Spybot-Search and Destroy 1.3, another great anti-spyware product.

http://www.spychecker.com/download/down ... kthis.html
Highjackthis is another great tool for eradicting the most difficult and persistent bits of spyware.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
download Spywareblaster and prevent these pests from getting onto your machine in the first place,

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/c ... ist_za.jsp
download this personal firewall for free

For latest news on virus threats, virus definitions, and virus removal tools use this link;
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

I hope this free offer is useful to "newbie" customers.

by **gazza** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:04 pm

hey curly can yuh help...............evry so often a get a caption box in thu centa ov me screen...........it says summing about an illegal instruction was performed or detected by ntvd (not sure if these letta`z r thu onez)
clik close to close or theres a button with ignore on it. a normally clik
close. a havvunt got a clue wat it meanz,.....any ideaz......................

by **curly** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:14 pm

When do you get this instruction?
When browsing?
Do you use Internet Explorer?
Do you see it when using any of your applications?

by **gazza** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:15 pm

well a dont uze explorer and it juzt popz upany owld time,not often tho......
sometimez it happenz off line........not 2 sure, next time ah`ll make some notez...........ta m8....
ps- a nevva go on nawty sitez................

by **curly** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:54 pm

What is the OS Gazza?
Windows 2000/ME/XP or older?

by **gazza** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:00 pm

ah`v got xp, and sorry ren a dont know wat yuh mean......am a learner
on computer................it hazzunt happ`nd again yet since yesterday...
that top link yuh put in ren lookz a bit familiar............will copy down thu
info next time.................................tarra :cry:

by **James_2003uk** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:03 pm

it could be the "messenger Service" if he's using XP

by **curly** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:19 pm

Gazza, does it give you an error code number?

by **gazza** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:12 pm

right.............it came on agen.........a think a had juzt got on thu net..
it sayz...........16 bit ms-dos subsystem
c:\docume~1\gazza\locals~1\temp\surfaI~1.exe
the ntvdm cpu has encountered an illegal instruction.
choose close to terminate the application
close.......................ignore..............
well thatz it..............still dont no wat it iz

by **curly** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:55 pm

You have a Trojan Horse virus Gazza - Surfairy.
Look at this link, it may help you to eradicate it.

http://www.webuser.co.uk/cgi-bin/forums ... o=93&part=

by **gazza** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:42 pm

thanx curly......ren......and all.........tried some of thu advice on yah linkz
a diddunt havva trojan horse....but took some advice off thu message
board and think it mite have worked..........thanx me owld marra`z

by **MUSICFAN_20** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:40 pm

SORRY FOR JUST BARGING IN....
" BUT DO U NO ANYTHING ABOUT VBS.SEARCH, THE BLOODY THING KEEPS LAUNCHING IT'S SELF AND MY PC CANT PICK IT UP, I'VE GOT AVG AD-AWARE FIREWALLS...I JUST CANT SEEM TO FIND IT? ANY SENSIBLE IDEAS WILL BE GRATEFULLY RECIEVED" :BangHead:

by **curly** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:38 pm

Vbs search is spyware/malware, which often cannot be detected by Ad-Aware 6.0 personal, it is a browser hijacker which buries itself in the registry. Try downloading Hijackthis (freeware) from the next link

http://www.spychecker.com/download/down ... kthis.html

then go to this link for advice on how to clean out this nasty piece of malware.

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/lofiversi ... 25772.html

by **MUSICFAN_20** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:03 pm

:D

:D

CURLY YOUR A f**king STAR... THANKS VERY MUCH.THAT VBS THING HAS BEEN PISSING ME OFF FOR GOD NO'S HOW LONG. CHEERS

:D

by **James_2003uk** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:58 pm

Microsoft Antispyware

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx

If your using Giant Antispyware just keep using that as this is the same thing, becuase microsoft bought them out. Its a good bit of software this aswell (well the Giant version was) finds alot of stuff

by **Samara** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:38 am

Hello! There is some great advice for getting rid of virus' and bloody adware.

I have a 'program' that tries to access the internet each time I connect. I run Avg (Free) virus/adware protection, Zone alarm for a firewall etc.

The name of the program is 'CRSRECO.EXE' None of the adware searches pick it up, even a file search for the 'exe' file turn up nothing. It doesn't seem to affect my pc's performance, but when I 'deny' it access to the internet, it hangs my system and won't let it shutdown. Meaning restart, scandisk etc etc. Bloody nuisance!

Any advice for getting rid of this problem will be greatly appreciated.

by **BigRy** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:36 am

hi sounds like some sort of browser hijacker to throw popups at you etc, if you know your way around system processes you could try http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

then look for that file and remove it, this will no longer let the exe run

by **curly** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:03 pm

Hi Samara,
you don't mention what methods you have tried to remove this malware with.
I recommend having a good look through the Major Geeks tutorials. I use Lavasoft Personal SE, but you must remember to update it's definitions file on a weekly basis, along with that I also use Miocrosofts spyware and malware removal tool, finally get a copy of Javacool Software's Spywareblaster, again you will need to get regular updates for the definitions file. Once your pc is cleaned up Spywareblaster will prevent most spyware, malware, trojans, active X controls, and hijackers from ever infecting you again.

Start by going through ALL of the processes described in the major Geeks tutorial.

by **Samara** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:58 am

Hi Curly, sorry for the extended delay. Problem solved. Puter decided one day to contact microsoft updates site, and downloaded 24 critical updates/security patches etc. This solved the problem for about a week. Last Saturday night for some reason, problems started again. I had had a couple of whiskey's by this stage, so my patience was running thin. Fdisk, reformat HDD. I had most things backed up, so didn't lose much more than my avatar wardrobe.
I just want to say thank you for providing the links to resources, which I have now loaded on to my system before I have accessed the internet. Hopefully, this will keep my system reasonably clean of nasties.

by **Scrappy** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:44 am

Hi Curly they certainly are good tools..
I was wandering, with my Firefox, I have this bloody what looks like a plug in up the top there, Iv put a screen shot in to show you..
See the green plug in thing, for the life of me I cannot get rid of it, nor know what it is, Iv even unistalled Mozilla, got rid of all the settings and when I download mozilla again its there..Even out of the registrey, which I hate tampering with

Have you any idea what it might be, If i click on it a bar shows up, I cant get rid of the dam thing..
Can you help???????

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