hijacker?

[eastratton]

I have a program that is forceing me to a website asecurityupdate.com it also has all sorts of security popups saying my system has issues click here and being brought to other download this to fix it sites. I have tried unsuccessfully to eliminate it with adaware, spybot and mcafee. Any ideas?

Ed

 

[ThreeDee]

try this

Information - asecurityupdate.com


asecurityupdate.com is a Computer Hijacker and this is a very dangerous for the Computer's Health. But in actual, asecurityupdate.com is a variant of Zlob trojan. Trojan.Zlob typically purports to be a needed upgrade the Online Media Player in order to view the Adult or Porn videos from porn sites. Once installed, it hijack the users homepage (For Example; www.google.com) to asecurityupdate.com[1] and generate a fake warning message to purchase the another trojan related rouge security programs such as, SpyLocked, MalwareAlarm, MalwareWiped, WinAntiVirus and so on.

Not only this, Trojan.Zlob also display a fake Flashing Warning Alert[1] on your system tray. In which, A Pop up balloon warning messages claiming that your PC is infected. For example : "Critical System Error", "Your computer is infected", "System Alert", Trojan-Spy.win32@mx", "Virus Alert", "Spyware.Cyberlog-X", System performance slowed down by 47%", "Internet connetion speed decreased by 39%" and "Security Alert".

If your computer is infected by asecurityupdate.com and hijacked by the unfamiliar webpage then your computer in trouble because it does transfer back and forth information from the infected computer which makes it a potential for application/data theft.

story of the moral is ... stay away from porn sites and the like!!!


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[eastratton]

so what would be a recommended fix? thnk wife got it at myspace told her she had to download profile viewer

 

[ThreeDee]

post got goobered initially ..link is there now on the word "this" and I got that info from a quick 30 second google search..so that might save you time in the future if you just do what I did.



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[eastratton]

sorry browser is locked up can't get to google only reason I could get here was because I have this place on favourites thank you

 

[OldMX]

Give SUPERAntispyware a try, remember to disable system restore and scan while in safe mode

 

[ThreeDee]

see if you can grab that tool using someone elses computer and then put it on a floppy , or thumb drive or burn it to a disc then take it to your computer

if the fix don't get you cleaned up ..then try and get to http://www.majorgeeks.com and grab

(as mentioned above)
SuperAntispyware
CCleaner and run a cleaning session before you ran any scans
Spybot Search & Destroy (update then immunize , then run a scan)
Spywareblaster (update and enable all protection)
AntiVir free home edition
..or NOD32 30 day trial
AVG anti rootkit

if all you can do is click on favorites ..can you still edit the properties of each favorite so you can change the address on an individual favorite?

after you get cleaned up , do some online scans thru Trend micro , or panda virus or both

make sure all your antispyware and antivirus programs are kept up to date with regular scans ..and keep or get your windows up to date

grab various proven tools and be paranoid for about a month at least and scan the crap out of your box

..or , back up your important data and reformat drive and reinstall windows if your uncertain if you got all the infection out

..and lastly ..stop surfing those dark corners of the internets (porn , warez ...etc)

maybe install Zone alarm so you can easily see whats coming and going from your comptuer and stop any trojan from phoning home hopefully


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[eastratton]

problem has been fixed anyone else gets this let me know and I'll point ya in the right direction thanks guys for you help

 

[Sharaz Jek]

i recently used microsoft windows defender to clean up my aunts computer. this computer was so infested with spyware that it coudlnt complete a boot up anymore. i have never in my life sen the hklm/.../.../microsoft/windows/run regkey scroll 3-4 pages down the screen!

anyway, defender did a really nice job of finding and eliminating all the spyware on the system. it did take 3-4 hours of running and re-running, but eventually it got it all.

 

[rxteenager]

something that I have foun useful was changing my wife's account to a limited one. She would click on anything and download anything. Even downloaded ares, so i told her that for her own protection i would limit her account and only I could install programs for her. This kinda served as a psychological deterrent. Since she knew she couldn't install anything she stopped downloading crap.