miccolli

Thanks for your comments. They are probably more sensible than mine... I've had this for some time now, but still none of the software I've tried has managed to remove the source. It's not new... I remember a virus/malware I had a few years back. Explorer.exe was infected. The anti virus/malware software could all flag alarms when the registry entries from the infected explorer.exe made, but could never actually detect that explorer.exe itself was infected. A manual replacement of explorer.exe took care of it. I was a bit surprised that none of the anti-virus/software systems at the time could detect that explorer.exe was the source. Happy to hear that. The new PC I am waiting for will have Windows 7. I beg your pardon. Virus or malware, the common usage amongst normal PC users has been virus and probably always will be. But do I actually have to understand exactly what it is or anti-virus/malware software will not be able to deal with it? How long does it usually take? No, but a threat that has been around for quite some time should be able to be detected as I was running up to date software at the time. If not, what's the point? Restoring an image is much easier and sending endless lines of logs that in the end do not seem to help anyway. I do not deny the fact this my PC was "infected" by virus/malware do to my own actions. Of coarse it was something I did. But it happened while having anti-virus/malware software active. I dare I guarantee that on any PC with a Microsoft operating system there is some sort of software somewhere that has not been written by the PC's user. Drivers, browsers or other software is at some point downloaded and installed. Only from trusted sites? What sites can be trusted? If anti-malware software did not detect the instant my PC was "infected", what says that it can't have "infected" the software on these trusted sites?

Hi, First of all, this is not a request for help so there is no need to suggest me to post a topic in the correct forum... This is just a bunch of general questions... So I have some sort of virus. The Malware IP blocker keeps blocking outgoing access to a potentially dangerous site. Thats great. But why can't any anti virus software remove the actual virus? I've tried plenty, and plenty of them have found threats of some sort and claimed to remove them, but this blocked outgoing access continues. By searching the web I see many people with this sort of problem, and many of the posts are filled with fantastic suggestions, the infected have produced logs, but I don't see anybody saying that any of the suggestions actually work... they just get asked for more logs... Why should we have to produce logs? This kind of virus seems to be around a lot, shouldn't major players in the anti-virus world be able to track these problems and implement support for immidiate and effective removal within the anti-virus software without having to supply endless lines of logs? And why is Malware bytes unanable to present me with information on which process is trying to access the potentially dangerous site? It seems to me that all of the latest anti-virus software is basically useless, and the only way to deal with this is to re-install the PC from scratch, download fresh drivers and install all purchased programs, keep all data (bookmarks, photos, documents etc) on a seperate drive, create a ghost image of the C drive and store it on a usb disk safely away from the PC and restore the image when infected. I don't see any point in using anti-virus software anymore, as it did not protect me from getting infected and it can't remove the virus... And I've had this virus for sometime, it's not a new virus... I've kept this PC alive because it's getting replaced for other reasons. Is the anti-virus battle just a loosing one, only being kept alive by anti-virus advertising? Sorry for the rant, but I don't think I'm the only one that's a bit tired of this... I wouldn't mind hearing the views of anti-virus software developers and others who suggest their usage...