Infection messages?
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From: Buffalo on 11 Dec 2009 17:16 Robin Bignall wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:12:08 -0700, "Buffalo" <Eric(a)nada.com.invalid> > wrote: > >> >> > ["infected" messages before logon screen] > >>>> I'm running Avira now. >>> >>> And it found nothing. >> >> Perhaps just let Avira run for several days while Kaspersky is >> disabled, if you wish. >> Buffalo >> > I don't think it'll find anything. > There appears to be no rhyme or reason behind these messages. For > example, when I rebooted last night, there were hundreds of these > messages, in bunches. I can't tell how many are in a bunch, maybe 32 > or 64. A bunch scrolls for about five seconds, there's a two second > gap, then another bunch scrolls, and so on. Last night there were four > of these bunches, plus half a screen of bunch five. Tonight when I > booted there were just two of these messages (not two bunches). I > booted again and there were none. I've found this behaviour before. > These messages seem to come and go. > > I just again checked the contents of all files on c: and d:, and the > registry, for the string "infection", without finding anything > associated in any way with an executable. Weird. I was just suggesting that possibly Kaspersky could be the culprit and disabling it and only running Avira to see if the messages stop. However, I really doubt Kaspersky would react that way. We know 'something' is generating the messages and hopefully there is someone in this ng that would have a good suggestion for a program that could monitor all the startups. Buffalo PS: It will be interesting to see what caused it. :) And, do you have more than one (1) antivirus program running in real time, such as Windows Defender?
From: "FromTheRafters" erratic on 11 Dec 2009 19:35 "Robin Bignall" <docrobin(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:79svg5lo5tkdthrgrin3eg2iv3qj6hci09(a)4ax.com... Do you use "Windows Washer" or some similar program?
From: Daave on 11 Dec 2009 19:54 Robin Bignall wrote: > Just another piece of data. I just logged on as "administrator" (with > several screens full of these infection messages) to see if, when I > rebooted, I might have some "administrator\cookies\index.dat" > messages. > When I rebooted back as myself all the infection messages had > vanished. But this has happened before on reboot. If you configue a Clean Boot, do you still get these messages?
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From: Robin Bignall on 12 Dec 2009 16:52
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:35:03 -0500, "FromTheRafters" <erratic @nomail.afraid.org> wrote: > >"Robin Bignall" <docrobin(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message >news:79svg5lo5tkdthrgrin3eg2iv3qj6hci09(a)4ax.com... > >Do you use "Windows Washer" or some similar program? > No, only what's in IE8 and CCleaner. -- Robin (BrE) Herts, England |