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Offline Rick

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OK, Viruses?
« on: February 22, 2010, 08:29:28 PM »
My Computer Automation viruses detector pinged two viruses this afternoon. It say's several of the WUWEB.Dll files has a Win32-HAEOF virus and has quarantine them.

Any thoughts, ideas, how do I un-inflect them, and I just delete them?  There is some strangeness, slow running for the most part.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 08:42:53 PM »
Quote from: Ranger Rick on February 22, 2010, 08:29:28 PM
My Computer Automation viruses detector pinged two viruses this afternoon. It say's several of the WUWEB.Dll files has a Win32-HAEOF virus and has quarantine them.

Any thoughts, ideas, how do I un-inflect them, and I just delete them?  There is some strangeness, slow running for the most part.

It might be a "false positive". 

http://homeofficeforum.ca.com/homeofficeforum/showthread.php?p=21591
http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/False-Positive-with-CA-and-Windows-Update

It looks like there was a problem caused by one of the latest updates from CA.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2010, 09:31:26 PM »
Spy bot did not ping. I guess I best update and run it.

Thank you for the timely come back.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2010, 09:38:39 PM »
Did CA quarantine the files ?  That could be a reason for the computer running slow. dll files are shared by diferent programs, but I think those are tied to Windows update.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2010, 12:49:19 PM »
Get a free copy of malwarebytes.  It's not resident, and you run it on command.  I use it as a back up to my primary.  It finds things the primary misses.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2010, 01:17:33 PM »
Try Avast.

Get rid of McAfee. Use the McAfee Consumer Removal tool online to clean all the program out.


google it.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2010, 08:47:44 PM »
Yes they where Quarantined. Spybot did not find anything.

Since this: I have had two CA updates and a MS update. I am not getting any alarm, but there have been some little quirks.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2010, 09:32:12 PM »
Quote from: Ranger Rick on February 24, 2010, 08:47:44 PM
Yes they where Quarantined. Spybot did not find anything.

Since this: I have had two CA updates and a MS update. I am not getting any alarm, but there have been some little quirks.

Definitely a false alarm. I had six individuals call in over the last two days concerning this pop-up alert with CA.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2010, 11:17:58 PM »
Spybot S&D will not always find viruses. I second the Malwarebytes and Avast!. You may need to start up in safe mode to remove any malware/ viruses. McAffee is a resource hog and having to pay for it is ridiculous for how good it is. Hell, AVG is better than McAffee and it's lame any more.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2010, 12:52:36 PM »
I use Malwarebytes, but not Avast. I find Avast freaks out too much. If I have a really bad problem I'll run Trend Micro.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2010, 01:06:39 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on February 25, 2010, 12:52:36 PM
I use Malwarebytes, but not Avast. I find Avast freaks out too much. If I have a really bad problem I'll run Trend Micro.

I just avoid pron sites and don't worry about it.  :lmao:
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2010, 01:59:53 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 25, 2010, 01:06:39 PM
I just avoid pron sites and don't worry about it.  :lmao:

Whut, whuts pron?   :uhsure:
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2010, 02:08:05 PM »
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2010, 11:47:35 PM »
Going forward, I would recommend ESET NOD32. They push out signature updates more regularly than anyone else I have seen. I was recently testing AV vendors and NOD32 was the only solution to detect new Fragus .jar files. Depending on your platform they have 32 and 64 bit options. It's also less resource intensive than Kaspersky, Norton, and McCrappafee.

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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2010, 11:07:10 AM »
I forget what it was that I didn't like about NOD32, but I've been with Avast! for over a year now and have remained virus free. I do peek into my .jar files every so often and usually delete everything in there.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2010, 12:05:05 PM »
Quote from: Thor on March 08, 2010, 11:07:10 AM
I forget what it was that I didn't like about NOD32, but I've been with Avast! for over a year now and have remained virus free. I do peek into my .jar files every so often and usually delete everything in there.

If you don't detect the virus does it mean you are virus free?  :mental:

I can't speak for NOD32's prior version. I just started using it a few weeks ago following some testing at work. We decided to go with NOD32 Enterprise Edition. I also tested out the personal version on two of my boxes and have migrated a few friends over. AV Comparatives recently found that NOD32 detected 97% of threats where areas Avast professional picked up about 71% I believe, although I don't read much into those tests. Personally, I have never worked with Avast so I can't really speak for it. I am more interested in NOD's heuristic capabilities, we had a few modified Fragus .jars - and NOD32 picked them up. They got right past Kaspersky, Norton, and Panda. My best recommendation is to use anything BUT Norton.


The most important thing for home users is that they are using an up to date AV product - many people don't even bother.
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Re: OK, Viruses?
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2010, 11:32:09 PM »
I don't trust any anti-virus software.

I use a process viewer to monitor what's running on the system at any given time , and an exploit sweeper like hijackthis to pick up other things.
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