trojans

My laptop (HP, Windows 7, IE) has some type of malware or adware. My screen in always inundated with ads that aren't suppose to be there. Facebook has extra ads and even Wikipedia has ads. And everything is hyperlinked to ads. 'Educational Foundation' on the 'James Randi Education Foundation'...

I've run into (I think) two of these in the last week or so. I bit on the first one (if that's what it was). The first time, I followed a link from slashdot, and got a malware warning from Microsoft SecuityEssentials. At least, that's what I though it was, I clicked the button to remove...

Microsoft: One in 14 Downloads Is Malicious

The department's in-car laptops are supposedly reserved for "official" business, but it's no secret that they get considerable surfing use... Some officers are reasonably computer-savvy and some are not. The other day, I tried to fire up the one in a car I seldom use and found that it had...

Can anyone help? I thought I had great protection.... I went on Hidemyass.com to enter a 911 Conspiracy site and I started getting pop ups. My Mcaffee starts up every 5 mins and pop ups every two minutes. It is called Vundo!grb I ran a complete system check and nothing was found. Can anyone...

I have been told by many computer literate people that hijackthis, a small program that will produce a dump of many config files and registry entries so as to allow a technically competent person to scan through them and identify problems, is probably the most powerful virus (or malware...

A few days ago the news was talking about it, one of the the victim was say he caught it from download games(the pictures shows what looked like flash game sites). I've searched a bit but couldn't find how people got infected, anyone have more info?

Let me recommend this program, named simply Trojan Remover: http://www.simplysup.com/ I stupidly got a trojan earlier this week, and have been fighting with it ever since. I've tried all sorts of free programs, directions, websites, etc, all to no avail. This was one of those annoying...

The kids noticed "boobies" popping up today -- I hadn't been on the computer in a week. I ran Adaware and it found some BHOs and deleted them, but it's back (or nevr went away) after the reboot. I checked Microsoft Security Center (XP) Automatic Updates but it was turned off. Something keeps...

Okay, I am not computer savvy, so what exactly is an “Active X”? You know, that annoying thing that pops up when you go to a web page and won’t let you leave until you do something with it. This leads to my next question, how can I not touch it and get out? Is closing the “Active X” window...

For a few months now I have had two computers at home getting infected with a virus named Backdoor.ranky but I can't understand how the virus gets into the computer. I dont have emailprograms on it, I use webmail and I haven't got any strange emails with attachments anyway. I don't visit...

If that's the right word for it. I'm too old to keep up with modern techonology (too old at 30!). When I go to log on at Hotmail, I get an "Enter Network Password" pop-up. I'm doing a virus scan at the moment, because I haven't seen this before, but does anyone know of a trojan going around at...