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Possible Malware?

Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by cgoehring78, 2005/03/01.

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  1. 2005/03/01
    cgoehring78

    cgoehring78 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Should I be concerned with any of these?

    HitBox
    Casino Popup Stuff
    Connect MFP Application
    Hotbar
    IE Plugin
    Magic Control.Agent

    Thanks for your help...
     
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    Welshjim

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    cgoehring78--I do not know how you determined you have these applications on your PC, so maybe this is repeating what you have already done. There is little question that Hotbar, Hitbox, Magic Control are undesireable. I have no info on MFP. Casino and IE Plug in are rather generic descriptions, so also no info.
    Suggest you run a spyware detector.
    AdAware
    http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
    Spybot S&D
    http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
    Make sure you have downloaded the latest reference files before you scan.
    I assume you have an antivirus program running and that it is up to date with virus definitions.
    MS Windows Update offers a scan for Malicious Software.
    And MS also offers MS Antispyware
    http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
    Let us know if this helps get rid of these programs. And tell us what version of Windows and IE you run.
     

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    Newt

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    cgoehring78 - you and Dave just finished a cleanup several days ago. Is this new junk that has appeared since then?
     
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    cgoehring78

    cgoehring78 Inactive Thread Starter

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    New

    I think this stuff is new. I found it through one of my spyscanners. Dave and I did a cleanup of those darn ZipZapPromos but I didn't ask for help with anything else.

    I haven't tried the other sites mentioned in the immediately prior post. I do have something called CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner that keeps finding stuff. But it's only free for 9 more days.

    Suggestions?
     
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