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Last month, I hit a problem with what turned out to be a Necurs Rootkit infection, which was successfully solved via this thread here - http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?71440-Possible-Trojan-infection-FakeMoz-ED. It seems that I've now been hit again, as similar symptoms have have just...

Hit a problem with one of the family laptops that looks like it could be a Trojan.FakeMoz.ED infection. When the computer booted up, we got a security message saying that the firewall wasn't running. So I reactivated the firewall manually and all seemed well. Next boot-up, not only did it say...

Once again, one of my family's computers has picked up an infection that has defeated me! This morning, when my dad booted up his laptop to check out something online, he got a whole load of virus warning messages from "XP Home Security 2011". It didn't take me long to realise it was a...

Can anyone suggest a decent (and preferably free) ad blocker that works for IE 7 & 8? I already use Adblock Plus on Firefox, and am happy with it, but I'd like to find one that works for IE. Although I use Firefox as my main browser, there are times I've found IE better for certain sites and...

A couple of days ago, while visiting a forum I never usually have any problems with, AVG Resident Shield lit up with warnings for Win32/Zbot.A, VBS/generic and SHeur3.AQRA. It seems like it came from an infected flash advert on the forum. So I ran AVG and found a massive infection of all three...

I've been working for the past few days to try and remove a Virtumonde/Smitfraud infection from my dad's computer. Despite my best advice, he never installed any AV/AS software, on the grounds that nobody he knew would ever do anything as nasty as sending him a virus!! Once infected with...