I need help here

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Blahblah1234, Feb 28, 2008.

  1. Blahblah1234

    Blahblah1234 Private E-2

    Ok, I have NIS2008 and it says everything is ok. Well, I was just redirected to a site about an hour ago. It was xpscan or something like that. Anyway, it said I had 3 known problems. The alarming one had something to do with info stealing. I closed the site out and didn't do what it suggested. Dumb move or smart one? I then downloaded Spybot search and destroy. The only thing it came up with is something called registrysmart. It couldn't fix everything there. It said something about running it as an Admin. How do I do that? Something else I could download to make sure I'm really safe?
     
    Blahblah1234, Feb 28, 2008
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  2. Blahblah1234

    Blahblah1234 Private E-2

    Never mind about the run as administrator thing. I at least figured that out. :eek:
     
    Blahblah1234, Feb 28, 2008
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  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    If you desire to check your PC out for malware then please follow the instructions in the below link and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide
     
    chaslang, Feb 28, 2008
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  4. Blahblah1234

    Blahblah1234 Private E-2

    I'll do this but first I need to ask how I set this account to administrator level. Do I leave it at that after I do it? I'm the only one that uses this computer.
     
    Blahblah1234, Feb 29, 2008
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  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Are you saying that it is not already an account with administrator priviledges?

    You check and set User Accounts from Control Panel, User Accounts.
     
    chaslang, Feb 29, 2008
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  6. Blahblah1234

    Blahblah1234 Private E-2

    Well, it says it is. So, why did I have to choose run as administrator with Spybot before it would let me do certain things. Anyway, I'll check that link out later tonight. Since I'll have a lot of time then.
     
    Blahblah1234, Mar 1, 2008
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  7. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You should not need to be admin to begin with; however you need to realize that using Run As Administrator is not the same as having administrator priviledges. Run As Admin is really running with the user account named Administrator and uses the priviledge settings assign to that account.
     
    Last edited: Mar 5, 2008
    chaslang, Mar 2, 2008
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  8. Blahblah1234

    Blahblah1234 Private E-2

    I thought I'd have a lot of time. I'm not purposely stretching this out but can you tell me what launcher.exe is? It is listed under system startup in Spybot. The filename is relaunch.exe It says it is a spyware component related to DownloadWare and found in Program FilesKFH
     
    Blahblah1234, Mar 3, 2008
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  9. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    chaslang, Mar 5, 2008
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