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Lots of Adwares
by alfmic - 9/13/05 10:13 PMI have Norton Antivirus 2004 Professional in my system,
when I scan for viruses is giving me 12 adwares in the result of scanning,some are low threat and some are high.
What I want to know is 1. From where these all adwares are coming. 2. Everytime I try to delete some of them Norton tell me that is better let us delete them but they are still there.3. How much my system is in danger with all these adwares.
Is there any solution for this matter.
Note
From time to time I run the Ad-Aware SE Personal,but adwares are still there.
Thanks for helping me
If you can tell us the name of the threats
by Donna Buenaventura
- 9/13/05 10:19 PM
In reply to: Lots of Adwares by alfmic
that Norton detected, we can possibly find the caused, impact and possible solution.
Open the activity log of your NAV 2004 then copy and paste here the recent logs (where it says it found adware)
That log has some information on threat name. If you will click on the threat name, your browser should open and send you to Symantec site with instructions on how to remove it permanently.
adwares
by alfmic - 9/14/05 1:23 AM In reply to: If you can tell us the name of the threats by Donna Buenaventura
Thanks Donna,
I will do what you told me when I am back on my PC.
Try spyware and adware removers
by jackfrostCA - 9/13/05 11:56 PM In reply to: Lots of Adwares by alfmicNorton 2004 cannot remove all forms of spyware/adware from your computer...however, I use a couple of adware/spyware removers than work quite well.
First, download the Microsoft Antispyware remover at www.microsoft.com/downloads...this one accomplished what Norton could not do, when trying to remove certain forms of adware/spyware. It will also monitor your computer, and catch spyware/adware when it tries to invade your computer. You can also schedule it to auto-run at a specific time, to catch and delete invaders. It will also auto update itself with new adware/spyware definitions from Microsoft, if you have your Windows auto updates turned on.
Secondly, go to www.lavasoft.com and download a program Ad-Aware SE Personal addition. This is a good secondary, or backup program to Microsoft's removal tool. While this one will not auto update, or monitor your system ( you have to pay for that service), you can manually update it with available new defnitions, with the ''check for updates'' link provided each time you open the program
Both programs are not 100 percent perfect, but after trying many of the offered programs, I find that these two are the most consistant to catch most of the junk that circulates on the internet.
If you are into music downloads, stay away from Kazaa...this P2P program is extremely notorious for spyware and adware. I ran a test on this program. I shut off all the security on my secondary computer, downloaded the program, and let it run for 30 minutes. During that short time,my computer had 500 objects, of registry key entries and changes, along with trojans,etc. Most of the items had a high risk rating. It took almost an hour to clean up my computer afterwards. If you want to download music, try Ares, or Kazaa Lite (you have to pay for this one).
Lots of adwares
by alfmic - 9/14/05 1:21 AM In reply to: Try spyware and adware removers by jackfrostCAThank you so much for your help Jackfrost. You remind me of ptp software to download music.
I got Warez and I think those all adwares came from there.
warez
by Donna Buenaventura - 9/14/05 6:45 AM
In reply to: Lots of adwares by alfmic
That should answer now your first question earlier.
"What I want to know is 1. From where these all adwares are coming."
Remove those warez. Empty temporary internet files and recycle bin. Rescan the system using full system scan and see if Norton will still find any.
Lots of Adwares
by alfmic - 9/15/05 6:25 AM In reply to: Try spyware and adware removers by jackfrostCAThanks Jackfrost,I'll try your suggestions but for me is a little bit difficult to follow your suggestions cause I am not so good on PC's.
Anyway I give a try and let you know of the results.Thanks .
That means you need extra help
by Donna Buenaventura - 9/15/05 9:10 AM
In reply to: Lots of Adwares by alfmic
If you are not sure what to do to fix these adware
I suggest that you just run the scanners that I mentioned (Spybot S&D, Ad-aware SE and Microsoft Antispyware)
Then get Hijackthis:
Get Hijackthis from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe
(that is a direct download)
It is important that you run HijackThis.exe in its own folder so the backup files that HijackThis creates will not be accidentally deleted.
Open 'My Computer', then double-click to open C:\ (or the drive letter that your Windows is installed on)
In the menu bar, click File-->New-->Folder.
That will create a folder named New Folder, which you can rename to ''HJT'' or ''HijackThis''. Now you have C:\HJT\ or C:\HijackThis\ folder. Put your HijackThis.exe there, and double click to run it.
Click 'Scan' button. Click 'Save log' button. Save the 'hijackthis.log' in your desktop. Copy and paste the content of 'hijackthis.log' and post the log file in any forums that offers HijackThis analysis. You may find more of this forum in http://asap.maddoktor2.com/
Do not fix anything using Hijackthis without the guidance of Hijackthis analyst.
The HijackThis analyst will help you remove whatever they find bad items.
Lots of Adwares
by alfmic - 9/15/05 1:34 PM In reply to: That means you need extra help by Donna Buenaventura
Hi Donna,
You are so kind ,thank you so much for your help.
I'll try to do my best.
Removal tools
by Donna Buenaventura - 9/14/05 4:43 PM
In reply to: Lots of Adwares by alfmic
RE: http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=125488&messageID=1420731
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Donna ,
These are the adwares Norton found.
Bindlong.exe.................Download Adware
eapbh.dll ...................Adware Ezula
NDNuninstall6 38.exe........Adware.NDotNet
newdotnet6 38.dll...........Adware.NDotNet
NNCLXA638.EXE................Adware.NDotNet
sepnq.dll....................Adware.Ezula
uninstall6 38.exe...........Adware.NDotNet
wo.exe.......................Adware.Ezula
Aphex.exe....................Adware.GameSp
ArcadeInstallFull20..........Adware.GameSp.
These Items are all typed as they appeared when I scan my computer.
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NAV can't remove those. You need to use another removal tool or remove them manually.
Please do this:
First download LSPFix.exe from http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Save it in your desktop. Do NOT use yet. You will only use that if your internet connection will not work. The LSPFix.exe will try to repair the Winsock so you can connect to the net again.
Next, download and install Spybot S&D and Microsoft Antispyware Beta
Update the programs and run a scan in SAFE mode
Also run a scan using Ad-aware SE in safe mode.
May I repeat, run a scan using the above programs in SAFE mode and run each of them twice if they detected the adware.
If none of the above programs will handle the said adware, proceed with to the next method.
Manual removal instruction for NDotNet is here or go to http://www.newdotnet.com/removal.html and follow the instructions on how to remove.
To remove Ezula, get the FixEzula.exe from http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.ezula.html
Use that to try to remove Ezula
As for Adware.GameSp, is that Adware.GameSpy Arcade?
If so, see http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.gamespyarcade.html
for manual removal
For adware Download.Adware, locate Bindlong.exe then delete it while you are in SAFE mode. If you cannot find the Bindlong.exe, reconfigure your system to show hidden files and folders then try to locate the Bindlong.exe again then delete it.
If still got problem in removing those, download HijackThis.exe (that's a direct download).
Do not do anything using HijackThis.exe. Most of them are harmless
It is important that you run HijackThis.exe in its own folder so the backup files that HijackThis creates will not be accidentally deleted.
Open 'My Computer', then double-click to open C:\ (or the drive letter that your Windows is installed on)
In the menu bar, click File-->New-->Folder.
That will create a folder named New Folder, which you can rename to ''HJT'' or ''HijackThis''. Now you have C:\HJT\ or C:\HijackThis\ folder. Put your HijackThis.exe there, and double click to run it.
Click 'Scan' button. Click 'Save log' button. Save the 'hijackthis.log' in your desktop. Copy and paste the content of 'hijackthis.log' and post the log file in any forums that offers HijackThis analysis.
You can find those forum in http://asap.maddoktor2.com/
PLEASE post your log in one (1) forum only. Do not post in many forums.
Look in your add/delete programs (in C.P.) for
by tobeach - 9/14/05 9:57 PM In reply to: Lots of Adwares by alfmica program called "Gamespy" if found delete (un-install).
Have you recently installed a retail game ?? Several, in default install will install gamespy claiming needed to play on line or to try other games. In my case it came in "Scrabble complete". You can & should delete all Gamespy files (or let Anti-spywares remove). I beleive in my case, I un-installed the Scrabble & then re-installed using "Custom install" option leaving out the older version Direct X (mine was newer) as well as all Extras from Gamespy. To me, the security risk of online is not worth it. I play Scrabble with others in house. Hope this (in addition to others suggestions) is of some help. 
Lots of Adwares
by alfmic - 9/15/05 6:17 AM In reply to: Look in your add/delete programs (in C.P.) for by tobeachThanks for your prompt reply.
I dont know if it has something to do or not,the day before I played literati with yahoo games.
Having trouble getting the game to work
by bettyjoy - 12/30/05 12:23 PM In reply to: Look in your add/delete programs (in C.P.) for by tobeachI was so glad to see someone else is using this game and it looks like you are successful with it. I am having trouble with "hanging" , a black screen, no game and cannot even turn off the computer once I click on play to start the game. Prompted by the cd must be in the computer to play, I insert and that is the end of the good times. Any ideas? I have direct X 9 and am running xp home.
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