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Moe, texnetcop: Trojan Win32/Renos.DZ

Cazzie

Cazzie

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Whatcha know about it? How does one get rid of it? It doesn't effect Firefox whatsoever and appears to have gotten into my ssytem when either my son or my wife were on IE!

It's not a real bear either, just keep getting an annoying Windows Defender pop-up saying it found it. Note, nothing else I have, full AVG, IObit's Advanced Care System, Spy-Bot, can find it.

Windows advises not to remove it manually, wouldn't know how anyway.

So what;s the best solution.

Usually the most annoying part is occasionally out of nowhere I get a stupid pop-up IE Windows spamming Turbo-Tax or something of the sort.

Any help kicking this anoyance in the arse would be appreciated.

Caz
 
Thanks a heap gang, I ran CrapCleaner last night upon Moe's suggestion and (tap wood) nothing so far since.

I have had to Log-In to every forum I belong to, but it's a small payback for getting that annoying pop-up. No porn, just SPAM. Probably some darn coupon site the wife hitched on to. :karate:

I would have thought that AVG would have caught it, or even Spy-Bot. I hate overloading my system with Spy/Malware programs, sooner or later one interfers with the other. Had that happen with ZoneAlarm, which did not like 64-bit systems at all.

Caz
 
If you're being rerouted ... that's usually spyware ... I use a program called Spyhunter for that ... these guys usually come in the form of cookies, though some have been known to hit registry and be actual files.

When you run spyhunter you have to be aware of the files listed by the program before you delete them, as spyhunter has been known to take files that are used by legit software. If you can place the file location with a real application its best to ignore the file ... any file that can't be associated with an application ... let spyhunter clean it out.

:)

Hope this helps.

I run crapcleaner almost every other day ... and it still doesn't locate the spyware cookies all the time.

One more NOTE! Spyhunter and spy-bot do not play well together. I got rid of the spy-bot.
 
I run CCleaner (CrapCleaner) every time I leave the internet. Having to log into the forum everytime I visit is a small price to pay for having a super clean system.

OBIO
 
I'd recommend giving AVG the boot. I'm running Kaspersky Internet Security on all of my systems (have been for the past 3 years)and have yet to be infected. :)
 
OBIO said:
I run CCleaner (CrapCleaner) every time I leave the internet. Having to log into the forum everytime I visit is a small price to pay for having a super clean system.

OBIO
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Just uncheck the Clear cookies box before running ccleaner and you won't need to keep logging into your favourite sites. :)
 
I got nailed with several trojans a week ago. Blew through my AVG like it wasn't even there. Just told me I got infected.

Try Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Works great, cleaned my system and it's free (Shareware if you want it to work more like a regular anti-virus program) I got rid of AVG and got Defender Pro 15 in one. So far so good. It found the infections that AVG said were clean, just couldn't heal them. Anti-malware did that part. I run em' both.

Brian
 
As far as what type of AV or AV each one does something different. I have tried a lot of them including the ones that were listed. One way or another you will experince a problem with spyware,virus attack...ect..ect. Best thing to do is just try and be safe. There is really no way to 100% prevet a attack on your pooter. The only true way is to unplug your internet connection.
 
Provided you have an external modem, The second best way is to buy a hardware firewall. Much like a router but it serves as a defense between your modem and your computer.

Some routers also have hardware built in firewalls.
 
A couple years ago I used Internet Explorer. Back in the day I felt like a test/crash dummy. IE was so vulnerable. Back then the (anti) pop-up blockers would catch most, but never all. I tried this, I tried that. Nothing worked the way I wanted it to.

Also, I was a firm believer of the ant-virus; PCcillin (spelling) If someone asked me what I used, I was like a proud E-2 saluting brass..and I swore by it.

Over a course of a few years, I used every free program and pay-type program out there that was available. My final conclusion was, AVGfree. During those times, opening my software drawer made me sick thinking about all that money wasted.

Firewalls; same bat time, same bat channel = same situation.

In todays day and age with the connections we have, we're very susceptible to every internet STD there is.

Here's what I feel:

What works good for one person, does not work good for others necessarily. The person you ask could have recently formatted their machine and have a clean system, or not get on the internet much, or even get on the internet all the time, but only go to certain sites that are headache free. I use the above mentioned purely as examples only.

Most websites today are like car lots. You pull in to to look at a vehicle on the car lot. You stop, turn off the ignition and get out to have a look. Before you know it, you got a salesman pestering you trying to get you to buy something, or show you something. Seem like the internet? Yes it does. Those pesky pop-ups are the car salesman. Only the pop-ups are forcing you to look whether you want to or not. In essence, the vulnerability (script code) that enters your machine. From there on out, the growing infection that soon becomes a disease that takes over.

Trial and error is the name of the game until you find something that works for you and your PC.

Hmmm, what about the programs that are called "Security Suites". My thoughts, a waste of time. The firewall may be a good selling point, or the virus protection, or the adware protection. In most cases an all-in one won't do it either.

Alright, enough of my thoughts. I hope it help some comprehend a bit more.

Here's what's worked for me for the past two years; :wave:

Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro
Eset NOD32 Antivirus
Ccleaner (crap cleaner)
Mozilla Firefox w/script blocker plug-in
 
hey_moe said:
As far as what type of AV or AV each one does something different. I have tried a lot of them including the ones that were listed. One way or another you will experince a problem with spyware,virus attack...ect..ect. Best thing to do is just try and be safe. There is really no way to 100% prevet a attack on your pooter. The only true way is to unplug your internet connection.
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I have to agree with Moe 100% on this, I am a network admin and I can tell you our company spends hundreds of thousands every year in AV/Spyware/content filtering, and with all our software and hardware systems to protect our users we still get infected from time to time. There is no BEST solution, most are good but none can really claim to be the best.

Personally I have been very lucky on my home system with AVG (free version) and Spybot running fulltime, and the hardware filre wall in my router as some added protedtion. The other thing I do regularly is (monthly) boot into safe mode and enable network support, then I go to Trend Micro house call and run a full system scan online with that, it is amazing how many things I catch each month even though I am a knowledgeable and careful surfer.

I have been in the game for a long time (my first home system used a casette tape for storage) and I remember when Fideo Net was 300 baud with an acoustic coupler... Oh the pain.... back then there were no viruses, - boy we have come a long way in 28 years...
 
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