NationStates Jolt Archive

GAH. This has driven me to the brink. I will now use the upyours smiley.
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By the way, if the anyone from the scam company who created the ErrorSafe abomination is reading this, I'd like you to know I hate you and think you should be set on fire.
I feel slightly better now. Can anyone help me with removing the Virtumonde virus which causes ErrorSafe from my computer? I scanned it with AdAware and found it but it refuses to delete itself. I'd also rather not spend any money. Any help would be appreciated.

You could try to reset your computer to a state before ErrorSafe nested itself in your computer.. Or perhaps try to delete it from safe mode. Or try other malware removers (I'm sure someone will give a list soon. I can't remember the best ones atm)

GAH. This has driven me to the brink. I will now use the upyours smiley.
:upyours:
By the way, if the anyone from the scam company who created the ErrorSafe abomination is reading this, I'd like you to know I hate you and think you should be set on fire.
I feel slightly better now. Can anyone help me with removing the Virtumonde virus which causes ErrorSafe from my computer? I scanned it with AdAware and found it but it refuses to delete itself. I'd also rather not spend any money. Any help would be appreciated.
Either go to a System Restore point before you got the virus, or get AVG and remove the bastard.

Ad-aware personal, is pretty good, but some pesky things can avoid deletion.

Spy-Bot S&D is good, but doesnt always pick-up what Ad-Aware does.

AVG free is a very good anti-virus.
I recommend getting that.


However, Pest Patrol is one of the best programs.
It shows you EVERYTHING remotely malignant and allows you to delete them.
It does cost though.

Also, Hijackthis! is great, but not for the inexperienced user.
It can display everything resembling trojans, malware, etc.....but will also show you things you should not delete.
If you use this program, be careful, and show it to someone who knows what the logfiles are.

Symantec has a tool and step-by-step instructions for removal.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.virtumonde.html

From our friends Symantec
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/errorsafe.html

Personally, I'm a big fan of Avast! Anti-Virus and Spybot: Search & Destroy. Two great, free programs that'll save you from a lot of problems.

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Microsoft Anti-spyware, now Microsoft Defender, is the best freeware program for detecting and removing invasive pieces of shit.

Microsoft Anti-spyware, now Microsoft Defender, is the best freeware program for detecting and removing invasive pieces of shit.
I found it was worth the money to buy the suite of McAfee tools, and to stop using Internet Explorer.

I found it was worth the money to buy the suite of McAfee tools, and to stop using Internet Explorer.

I have McAfee AV on my laptop (using Windows firewall though), Symantec Anti-Virus at work and ZoneLabs Internet Security Suite on my desktop.

Thanks for the help everyone. The Symantec stuff seems to be the best way to go at the moment. I won't bother doing it now since it's getting late and it takes about four hours to run those processes on my computer since I have too many games.

I found it was worth the money to buy the suite of McAfee tools, and to stop using Internet Explorer.
Pah with those anti-virus suites.
They are all invasive like AOL, but no one cares because they are "legit." I will take the uninvasive free stuff that works.

Pah with those anti-virus suites.
They are all invasive like AOL, but no one cares because they are "legit." I will take the uninvasive free stuff that works.
As long as you're not using McAfee Privacy Service (which is unnecessary), it's not invasive.

It is, however, fully automatic. I haven't had to do anything at all, and it finds and deletes things if they do show up. One of the things I hated about a lot of the free tools is that when you get a problem, you have to do things like reboot in safe mode and run the programs manually to clean up.

Don't have time for that.

Pest patrol is the best method I've found to get rid of obnoxious little programs like that.

Currently my work machine has Pest Patrol, Spybot S&D, and Ad-Aware. Though since I installed Firefox on here and adblock/script blocker I've had no spyware at all.

Pest patrol is the best method I've found to get rid of obnoxious little programs like that.

Currently my work machine has Pest Patrol, Spybot S&D, and Ad-Aware. Though since I installed Firefox on here and adblock/script blocker I've had no spyware at all.

But I did notice some spyware targets FireFox recently.

From our friends Symantec
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/errorsafe.html

You and NERVUN nailed it :)

That's where the NoScript add-on comes in handy. You can block all javascript, or just from specific sources.

Pest patrol is the best method I've found to get rid of obnoxious little programs like that.

Currently my work machine has Pest Patrol, Spybot S&D, and Ad-Aware. Though since I installed Firefox on here and adblock/script blocker I've had no spyware at all.
Microsoft Antispyware/Defender > Pest Patrol, Spy Sweeper, all the other shareware ones.

I tried all those on some evil invasive thing I had that couldn't be removed by shit. Pest Patrol picked it up, but only because it runs a ridiculously suspicious heuristic set up or something because it detects non-problems and puts warning labels on them. At least Hijack this! doesn't go "OMG this is evil, remove remove!" for standard computer items. Only a couple others could pick it up. But MS Antispyware could pick up the problem and removed it permanently.