Hii all.. i am getting virus attacks since a month now on a regular basis. I studied some topics on this forum, and i downloaded many useful anti-spywares and other softwares.. and cleaned the system. The system gets cleaned, but still getting virus attacks. How to stop that.. and from where they are coming? I found and cleaned these yesterday and today: Win31.TrojanPWS.OnLineGames Win32.TrojanPWS.QQPass Trojan.Downloader-Gen/Win Win32/PSW/OnLineGames.HCV .NLH/.MYG/.FDY Win32/Anilogo.NAA (worm) Win32.Mypis.H All these i found by running: Ad-Aware AVG-Antispyware Super Antispyware Spybot - Search and Destroy ComboFix Nod32 Anti-virus I cleaned the virus yesterday... but after certain hours, again the attack occurred, and i had to clean it again this morning. How to stop the attacks? Thanks Anupam

Are you logging in with an Admin account? If so, create another user account with Limited privileges to login to normally. That will help. Also, you should purchase an anti-virus program that does real-time scans. You'll get a lot of opinions on this, but I prefer Norton/Symantec. Life's more painless for the brainless.

Most likely you are cleaning your pc but it might be becoming re-infected from the restore folder. Try : (1) Turning off system restore (2) Then booting into safe mode (3) Running all your scans again (one at a time whilst in safe mode) (4) Rebooting the pc normally once the scans are all done. (5) Turn System restore back on.

"and i downloaded many useful anti-spywares and other softwares" Get rid of them all! Download AVG for an anti-virus program, very light on system requirements. Download "SpyBot Search & Destroy" AND "AdAware". Install, update and scan with both programs with "System Restore" turned OFF! Update both of these programs weekly and be certain to IMMUNIZE SpyBot after each update! With Windoze XP and only 512 megs of RAM, the newer versions (newer thn Norton 2002) of Norton will cause a tremendous amount of lag. All of the above will cost you nothing! ...BUT I strongly advise that you invest in a decent router! ANY computer capable of connecting to the internet is maliciously probed several hundred times each day, a router is your best defence! While we are on the subject of Security, go get all of the Micr$oft Security Updates! While many programs appear to be the "magic pill" to solve all of your problems, most are just more junk that will do little more than slow your computer to a crawl! Lastly, EDUCATE yourself! Years ago I wrote an excellant post on Security! Today that post is as valid as it ever was,except that Norton stopped trying to help people, today they only want to rape your wallet! http://www.computing.net/security/w... _________________________ Embrace paranoia, they ARE out to get you!

Sorry for replying late here. Was stuck with virus... hehhe. Well, i did clean the virus from my PC again with system restore turned off. I cleaned and then i again got virus attack a few time later. This happened three times. After some observations, i deleted both msn and yahoo messenger from my pc. Since then i havent got any further attacks. But problem is now i cant run both messengers. Thinking of doing a format of the drive and reinstalling windows. Well, i cleaned system with Spybot-search and destroy, Ad-aware, Super Anti-spyware, AVG anti-spyware, combo-fix, and then finally nod32 anti-virus. Each of the anti-spywares detected some spywares. So i would recommend all of them. I found NOD-32 good.. it caught and cleaned a lot. After running all the anti-spywares i scanned by nod-32 and it really helped. Finally i ran combo-fix, and system got cleaned. I had been using Norton since a quite long time. Infact, since i started using PC. But recently i did not find it satisfactory, since it was not able to clean. I find nod-32 good. I tried Avant Home, but i was always doubtful of that. I havent tried AVG .. is it good?? I connect to internet through a LAN based network. I was considering installing a firewall on the system. But its the problem of allowing each program then. I installed once and i couldnt connect to internet as i was not able to maybe properly configure the firewall. Well, any suggestions? I observed i get virus attack when using the msn or yahoo messenger... how to stop that? Thanks Anupam

And yes, i used Dr. WebCureit. Its not at all user friendly anti-virus. It said that the explorer was infected, and cant clean, and there was option to move. I thought move to quarantine, but it deleted it !!! I had to repair my windows from the CD, and it took quite a lot of time!!! Anupam