Phantom Virus

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Have had these viruses caught and quarantined by Norton Antivirus over the last two days: Beyond, Blackbox, Dummy (all twice) and VerifierBug (once). Since then I have had a porno site become the homepage for all users and I can't get it off. Also, whenever I try to run a virus scan from a remote site, explorer either freezes up or shuts down. I think virus is running undetected in background, without Norton's knowledge. Whenever I log off, I have to wait for programs to close that don't appear in the Task Mgr. window.
 
It is known as Scumware. 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all good. Visit these sites. Download
and install, run one or all. They are all good, FREE utilities.
The first site gives some recommendations.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php?cat=all#s-p
1) AdAware
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
2) Spybot S & D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download
3) SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
4) HijackThis (some other stuff that may be of interest also)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html
5) Free Anti-Virus software.
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
6) Free Firewall.
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
7) Free Pop-Up Stopper.
http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
 
Thanks Wesley. It's been driving me nuts.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

Happy New Year!
Ed
 
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Have had these viruses caught and quarantined by Norton
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Antivirus over the last two days: Beyond, Blackbox, Dummy
(all twice) and VerifierBug (once). Since then I have had
a porno site become the homepage for all users and I
can't get it off. Also, whenever I try to run a virus
scan from a remote site, explorer either freezes up or
shuts down. I think virus is running undetected in
background, without Norton's knowledge. Whenever I log
off, I have to wait for programs to close that don't
appear in the Task Mgr. window.
.
Sounds more like some kind of spyware to me
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http://www.safer-networking.org/ Spybot
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
http://www.lavasoft.de/ Ad-aware
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html (CWS)cool web
shedder and hijack this
 
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