tribalfusion

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by vinney22, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. vinney22

    vinney22 Private E-2

    Hi, When I use Internet Explorer I keep getting popups from AVG saying it has found an infection named Tribalfusion, plus others such as Atdmt, Mediaplex etc. My AVG antivirus is up to date and so is Spyware Doctor. I have tried deleting all cookies and browsing history etc but the problem persists. I have followed your steps in malware removal and I have attached the logs as suggested. I had a hardware problem a few days ago which caused me to reinstall everything including Windows. Any advice or help to stop this as it is very annoying, would be appreciated. Thanks
     

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    vinney22, Aug 3, 2008
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  2. vinney22

    vinney22 Private E-2

    I'm just adding the MGLOGS txt.
     

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  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    TribalFusion (and the others you mentioned) are just cookies and they are not a problem. Tribalfusion cookies will come from many websites including Major Geeks. If you surf, you get cookies. If you don't want cookies don't surf or just delete them after surfing but you are deleting things that speed up and making surfing more enjoyable if you always remove all of your cookies. Looks like you may not have read step 11 of the below sticky:

    How to Protect yourself from malware!
     
    chaslang, Aug 3, 2008
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  4. vinney22

    vinney22 Private E-2

    Hi, Thanks for reading my request for help and by the way I did read step 11, in fact I read all of them first before posting as well as the malware removal and normal housekeeping proceedures. While I agree that cookies are not normally harmfull, how would you feel about 3 pop up warnings from AVG per web page visited while trying to surf. While waiting for a reply the situation got a little worse. My home page got changed, the windows firewall got turned off and then my pc became unusable, forcing me to wipe it clean and start all over again. I was hoping to avoid all that.
     
    vinney22, Aug 4, 2008
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  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Cookies are never harmful. They are just plain text files. Popup warnings about what? Cookies?

    This would not be due to cookies. It would be either due to a real infection or due to software that you installed that overrode the settings. The logs that you attached showed no malware issues. Thus you either got infected after posting them, or your problems had nothing to do with malware.
     
    chaslang, Aug 4, 2008
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