modem security

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This may not be the correct forum for your question.

At what level are you talking about? Do you mean you want to look at the IP packets? If so, there are tools for doing that but they are not basic programs and if you don't know how to use basic programs (as you mentioned) then you will not be able to use more complex programs. Nor will you be able to understand all of the raw output.

If you are worried that you have malware problems, you need to follow our standard cleaning procedures give below.

Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, renaming, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

• Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
• Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
• Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

• After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis​

Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.​

• When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:
  • CounterSpy - only for Windows XP, 2K, & NT users
  • AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy. - only for Windows XP, 2K, & NT users
  • Bitdefender - from step 6
  • Panda Scan - from step 6
  • runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat
  • newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat
  • HijackThis

NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!

 

You're welcome, but as far as I know Real Spy is a commercial tool that is often install by employers, schools, spouses, parents,....etc to spy on what a PC is being used for. If this was installed by your or employer and you are trying to remove it or already did, you could be subject to legal action.

 

Then the previpous owners could have installed it. That is assuming it was really RealSpy that Spybot found. False positives do occur with many scanners. Since you did not attach any logs from the scan (including Spybot which you said found this) I cannot say for sure if it was valid.

Why??? This has nothing to do with an about:blank or HSA hijacker.

If you want help, you need to complete the instructions I gave to you already.

 

No you should not uninstall .NET Framework. It wull be required for many things and it is from Microsoft. It will just have to be redownloaded (from MS Update) and installed again if you uninstalled it.

Based on your logs you have no malware problems. You main problem is really that this PC is totally unprotected. No antivirus, no realtime antispyware protection, and no true software firewall. This is a major security risk which must be corrected.

You should however have HJT fix the below lines. Two are unnecessary and on is left over from an incomplete uninstall of Yahoo software:

R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://hsremove.com/done.htm
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {02478D38-C3F9-4efb-9B51-7695ECA05670} - (no file)
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin\jusched.exe"

Then you need to start working thru the below to get properly updated and protected ASAP.

How to Protect yourself from malware!