Anti virus and firewall

[David]

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My XP SP2 system is behaving strangely.... I run Trendmicro's PC-Cillin 2005
and have suddenly lost all control of it. When trying to open the program I
receive error messages telling me that most of it is disabled. Likewise when
I go to Security Centre in Control Panel, the firewall is disabled and will
not switch on because the network connection isn't there - yet I can still
talk to other computers on my home network and also the internet. Anyone got
any idea how to get the protection working again?

 

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From: "David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com>

| My XP SP2 system is behaving strangely.... I run Trendmicro's PC-Cillin 2005
| and have suddenly lost all control of it. When trying to open the program I
| receive error messages telling me that most of it is disabled. Likewise when
| I go to Security Centre in Control Panel, the firewall is disabled and will
| not switch on because the network connection isn't there - yet I can still
| talk to other computers on my home network and also the internet. Anyone got
| any idea how to get the protection working again?

Something may have gotton by Trend PC Cillin and caused this.


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to
remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

* * * Please report back your results * * *


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

In article <5AB5C685-8226-4E7D-90FF-BE7D0D752854@microsoft.com>,
David@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> My XP SP2 system is behaving strangely.... I run Trendmicro's PC-Cillin 2005
> and have suddenly lost all control of it. When trying to open the program I
> receive error messages telling me that most of it is disabled. Likewise when
> I go to Security Centre in Control Panel, the firewall is disabled and will
> not switch on because the network connection isn't there - yet I can still
> talk to other computers on my home network and also the internet. Anyone got
> any idea how to get the protection working again?

It could be that your computer is compromised, you might want to run a
couple of the following cleaners to check it - after installing, run
them in safe mode.

Read and follow these links as needed to fix your system:

Only download software you can validate as uncompromised - in the case
of non-vendor site you have no guarantee that the files are unmodified
or uncompromised. Anyone providing a link to a non-vendors site with a
direct download should not be trusted, the vendors sites are the safest
place to download their application.

Also, do not post your log files here - there are HiJack groups for just
that purpose, not to mention all the web based forums setup for looking
at them.

Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

AdAwareSE can be found here:
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

SpyBot Search and Destroy can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Ewido Security Suite Trial can be found here:
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

You can also download Symantec Trial version of their Antivirus software
from here:
http://www.symantec.com/downloads/

Download AVG Personal Free edition from here:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

These are the actual vendors sites, not some unknown or authorized no-
name site. They also don't artificially increase the hits for sites that
get paid for the amount of traffic they can generate like one poster has
admitted to in this group.

When running these application, install them, update them, then reboot
in SAFE MODE and run them again to get even more things.

If you take nothing else from this post, remember the following:

Only download files from Trusted Sites.


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