In reply to a post by Spasch:

Sometimes AdBlock is not enough. I run Ghostery, which not only blocks advertisements but also tracking cookies and the like. Free from their site or from the Firefox add-ons site. Alternatively, install NoScript in addition to AdBlock.

Thanks, have now installed Ghostery

Ah, so you rebuilt your system rather than cleaning it.

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

Ah, so you rebuilt your system rather than cleaning it.

Yes, I totally agree with what AEP says, once compromised you don't know what other little nasties are lurking.

I'm hoping Linux will give me more protection in the future. Need to do a bit of research to learn it better though, only played with it in the past but thinking of putting it on all my families computers and laptops.

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In reply to a post by Kimi:

so was I

How come you got infected?

you tell me, I aint got a clue. I thought my system was secure

It probably was secure, but it isn't secure from user actions. At the end of the day (btw this is not aimed at you directly) if you browse a website, fall for a fake warning message, then when the prompt comes up to download a file, you click "Run", or you Save to a location and then execute that file.... then essentially you have allowed the malware or whatever it is to infect your system. Presumably (I wouldn't know as I've never done it, and when I question users about it they tell lies) a UAC prompt comes up too to give you a final chance. It does not just magically install itself from merely visiting a page... not 99.9% of the time anyway.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

It probably was secure, but it isn't secure from user actions. At the end of the day (btw this is not aimed at you directly) if you browse a website, fall for a fake warning message, then when the prompt comes up to download a file, you click "Run", or you Save to a location and then execute that file.... then essentially you have allowed the malware or whatever it is to infect your system. Presumably (I wouldn't know as I've never done it, and when I question users about it they tell lies) a UAC prompt comes up too to give you a final chance. It does not just magically install itself from merely visiting a page... not 99.9% of the time anyway.

Call me a liar if you want, but i did not click any prompts (no prompts occured) to install anything

In reply to a post by 12eason:

Urgh, why do people put so much faith in MSE? It score abysmally in tests, it takes up 100meg of ram even on small systems, and in never manages to update itself properly.

A mate of mine says using MSE is like getting Bin Ladan to guard the Whitehouse.

Is he American?

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

Ah, so you rebuilt your system rather than cleaning it.

cleaning isnt really viable if trojaned.

incidently the free version of malwarebytes anti malware is no automation, is a manual scan only.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Is he American?

No he's from Saudi Arabia

In reply to a post by Kimi:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Is he American?

No he's from Saudi Arabia

Same thing