Their is an icon on my task bar with a ? changing to a an x with a Sheild sign, every time i click it goes to this site...


http://virusresponse2009

McAfee says it is a bad site with complaints etc, spyware etc. How would i delete this off?

Can anyone help?

 

virus - well known virus

install antivirus - delete it - there's no manual way

 

remove that site from your post first

Id remove mcafee and install avast which is free and better, do a full scan and scan with spybot search and destroy and also use this to do a scan its very good http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

 

Thanks will try that.

 

installed spy bot and it's come back with this....

Zlob.downloader 15 enteries TrojansC thake it thats bad, the program won't delete it neither.

 

Think i had the same thing on my home PC. called it self AntiVirus2008. I did a ctrl alt delete went into task manager. Ended AntiVirus2008 in the processes tab and then deleted the AntiVirus2008 folder from my "C:\Programme files" folder.

This was quite a good programme i used to get rid of some other shite on my work Vista machine

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

 

'Hijack This' or 'Process Explorer' will show whats actually running.
(google for em)

Kill it
Delete any files to do with it
Scan with AV.
Done.

 

The moral to this story is don't click on anything that says 'click here to protect your computer'.

You need to use a selection of tools to make sure you're clean. A long time ago, you could make a Magic Bullet disk to boot the system and scan from a clean environment. The next best thing is to start the computer in Safe Mode and do a clean+scan from there. You can download a free 30 day trial of Kaspersky Antivirus, which is in a different league to AVG's Free edition, and that should sort you out in the short term. After you've cleaned yourself, either buy a copy of that and keep it up to date, or look at the other real offerings from Computer Associates, Kaspersky.

Also make sure you have a firewall - the firewall built into Windows XP isn't much but it's a million times better than nothing.

If your work uses Sophos AV, you may be entitled to use the 'home' version of Sophos (have a word with your IT department if you have one) but you can't get it any other way as it's a freebie with the corporate license. Sophos appears to be the nuts.

Don't go near McAfee. It's gay.

 

i've done a restore thing back to yeasterday will that get rid of the spyware? trojen shit etc?