Re: Infection & many pop up ads...SillyDI.FG,SillyDI.HZ,BettInet, SillyDL.HQ etc.

"Husky" <cbminfo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:53:45 -0400, "Terry" <tredmunds(remove
> this)@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>>I have appx.19 infections, e.g.
>>C:windows\system32\thin....win32.SillyDI.FG,
>>SillyDI.HZ (32\pop2),win32.BettInet, HtML.MHTMLREDIRLEXPLOIT (C:documents
>>etc.) SillyDL.HQ. My antivirus was up to date..I run the antivirus and it
>>comes up with "0" infections, but when I "x" out of that screen, another
>>window opens up telling me I have those 19 infections, lists them but
>>there's no option to delete. .it's just a window. Every time I run the
>>antivirus program, the same thing happens. I also ran Ad-aware and I have
>>already removed over 400 critical objects, but every time I run it, I get
>>more critical objects. Also pop up ads keep crowding the screen while I
>>perform those functions. My computer was fine until my son went in there
>>over the weekend to download tunes for his IPOD, I believe from Limewire,
>>I
>>tunes etc.
>>
>>Could someone please help me?
>>Thanks
>>
>
> I realize this isn't a NG about virus programs. But I've stuck with a Free
> one
> that I found on a drivers CD I got with win98 7 years ago. It's never
> failed
> me. It searches, intercepts, finds, identifies, cleans, or deletes.
>
> Are all the other virus programs worthless ?
> Only reason I ask is they're offering a FREE one thru my ISP, only trouble
> is
> it's more a sales tool to sell the meat of the program, like the firewall
> $29.99, the spam tool $29.95, the virus cleaner $29.95 etc.. For free you
> get
> something that may or may not identify something in real time. It won't
> stop
> it, that's what the $29.95 firewall and $29.95 cleaners for.
>
> Are all the other virus programs like this ? bits and pieces for sale to
> make
> up the complete package ?
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There are a variety of excellent freeware antivirus and spyware detectors
that do not install nags or are crippled. These include:
AVG 7 http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
avast 4 http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Microsoft Antispyware
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

Check here for more http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/index.htm

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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp



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