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Computer is acting weird..

S

SirStev0

Lifer
Like the title says... It is acting odd... It will seem to lock up at times... Window's defender wont update, spybot and adaware will act goofy, AVG's email protection will go off line... Things will crash. It just acts weird.
Worst part is I have no idea why...

AVG, Spybot S&D, Window's defender, and Adaware haven't found anything...

I also have zone alarm running... but there is some weird things with that as well... It looks like I have two generic host process for Win32 Services, according to zone alarm. I made it question me everytime generic wants to connect to the internet and I get a lot of things that want to go to IP 66.109.229.4 I have no idea what this IP is.

All these problems started about 2-3 weeks ago... around that time two things happened...

AVG caught : I-worm/drefir.F
and I updated zone alarm to the newest form.

Does it sound like I have a problem or am I just overreacting?
 
It looks to me like you may have a problem. That ip belongs to http://www.dejazzd.com/ which is just an isp. You shouldn't have any reason to be contacting any of their customers, unless that's your isp of course. With all the problems of your anti-malware software I think I'd nuke the install, and start fresh.
 
edit: yeah, or just back up your stuff and burn that Windows installation to the ground like lxskllr said.


That might be a problem. AVG Free Edition is not the greatest antivirus in the world; could you uninstall it and put a 30-day trialware of Kaspersky Antivirus 6 on there? Link & configuration suggestions It uninstalls easily, if you don't want to keep it in the end. Besides the configuration shown there, I have two more suggestions:

1) at the end, I show how to block certain email attachments. Add filetype *.* (all filetypes) so it peels off ANY email attachments. Then open Kaspersky AntiVirus and click on the MAIL ANTIVIRUS item and see if it's nuking stuff as it sneaks out the door.

2) go through all of the different Settings panels and set them all to HIGH, including the email one (so it scans outbound emails)


After all the configuration & settings are maxed, update it, run a full Scan My Computer and post the exact names of the stuff it finds (you can copy & paste).


Also:

1) Download Hijackthis and extract it out of the Zip file. Then run it, have it scan & save log file, and post the log here. Also run it while you're in Safe Mode, and see if anything's different between the two results.

2) run a couple of rootkit detectors, such as F-Secure BlackLight and Panda AntiRootkit.

3) it couldn't hurt to run some more online antivirus scanners such as TrendMicro HouseCall and Panda ActiveScan.

4) check your system for exploitable stuff using Secunia's online checkup, fully enable your Data Execution Prevention, and remember to always post security threads in the Security forum 😀
 
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