warning!I don't know whats going on here, about half hour ago I was in projects and clicked on community. My norton came on and told me to do check file. It had me down load a power eraser. I did and did a scan and there was no threat. I'm not that smart on computers, so does this tell anybody anything? Scary
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We all search for new designers, free patterns and go to sites for infomation. I always run melware once a week on my puter and you would be surprised at what it finds. Listen to meganne she knows what she is speaking about. I have now downloaded Rkill.
Hugs Joann
11220thanks, I never click on pop-ups. All I did was click on community when I was in home.
41781Be very careful of ANY popup you receive regardless of how authentic it looks, there is one very nasty spyware program hidden in a popup that looks, for all money, that it is from Microsoft.
PLEASE go (immediately you see this message) to the first link below and download RKill to your desktop.
Then go the the second link and download and install the FREE Anti Malwarebytes program to your pc with a link on your desktop.
After you have done this,
Click on RKILL and it will open access to the registries and disable any baddies that can prevent normal anti-virus programs from finding the monsters on your pc.
After the screen returns to normal, you should then run a full scan using Malwarebytes.
If these two find no baddies on your computer you will know you are safe.
You can run Rkill and Malwarebytes (manually) every week and feel confident that your computer is safe.
It won't affect Nortons as long as you don't have them both activated for live virus checking at the same time.
Another word of advice, copy RKILL over onto a USB stick and keep it solely for emergency in case you ever need to run it from the USB. (If ever you can't get RKILL to run from your desktop, it would normally mean your computer is compromised) so you plug the USB in and run RKILL, it will do its job, then Malwarebytes will find the invaders.
I hope this helps.
Hugs n roses, Meganne
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9 comments
by dollygk
09 Sep 2012
My son (really knows computers) told me to simply turn off the computer, this prevents anything from saving, never click on anything first... just turn off the computer.
I've been here and going from page to page and use Norton but didn't get any message.
by cfidl
09 Sep 2012
Meganne is so correct, the other software equal to rkill is combofix which runs in Dos. The most important thing is not to click on anything that pops up even if it looks legit. You can always start your antivirus software to confirm the message.
by meganne
09 Sep 2012
Dolly your son may "really know computers" but please don't dismiss my information so lightly, I also know computers and software as I was a Microsoft Sales Partner and help desk support for many years.
Are you aware that, in some instances, you can be attacked simply by OPENING an infected web-site?
And simply 'not saving' won't save you from these kinds of attacks. And you can shut down and re-boot as often as you like but it won't always help either.
There are so many threats out there, they come attached to emails, hidden in you tube movies, powerpoint presentations, executable files, pop-ups that you can't close and website backgrounds that even Norton's doesn't catch. This is where Rkill could save your computer.
If you want further confirmation of how good Rkill and Malwarebytes are just go to YouTube and search for the following:
"""Alert! Internet Security 2010 / Desktop Defender Virus and How To Remove/Fix It - Trojans too"""
I don't think the link will work here, that is why I have listed the title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ...
by meganne
09 Sep 2012
be attacked simply by OPENING an infected web-site?
And simply 'not saving' won't save you from these kinds of attacks. And you can shut down and re-boot as often as you like but it won't always help either.
There are so many threats out there, they come attached to emails, hidden in you tube movies, powerpoint presentations, executable files, pop-ups that you can't close and website backgrounds that even Norton's doesn't catch. This is where Rkill could save your computer.
If you want further confirmation of how good Rkill and Malwarebytes are just go to YouTube and search for the following:
"""Alert! Internet Security 2010 / Desktop Defender Virus and How To Remove/Fix It - Trojans too"""
I don't think the link will work here, that is why I have listed the title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ...
by meganne
09 Sep 2012
they come attached to emails, hidden in you tube movies, powerpoint presentations, executable files, pop-ups that you can't close and website backgrounds that even Norton's doesn't catch. This is where Rkill could save your computer.
If you want further confirmation of how good Rkill and Malwarebytes are just go to YouTube and search for the following:
"""Alert! Internet Security 2010 / Desktop Defender Virus and How To Remove/Fix It - Trojans too"""
I don't think the link will work here, that is why I have listed the title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ...
by meganne
09 Sep 2012
further confirmation of how good Rkill and Malwarebytes are, just go to YouTube and search for the following:
"""Alert! Internet Security 2010 / Desktop Defender Virus and How To Remove/Fix It - Trojans too"""
I don't think the link will work here, that is why I have listed the title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ...
by meganne
09 Sep 2012
here, that is why I have listed the title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ...;feature=plcp
by meganne
09 Sep 2012
http:// www. youtube.com/watch? v=tJOLWacbjSQ&feature=plcp
you could copy and paste and remove the spaces, it may work.
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