Is AB a harbourer of trojans and the like?

[dot.hawkes]

I've been running AVG each nite for 2 mites now and each scan finds a couple of dozen trojan threats and worms, last night I only signed into AB and Hotmail, I am abit bothered by this, where are these things appearing from? The infection list was worse, 54 cookies!!!

[Bathsheba]

Dunno dot, but i'm losing patience with it- it's sooooo slow, and i can't get "Q's i gave answers to" work at all xx

[Bathsheba]

Which is probably no bad thing, cos i won't be able to come back to this post to find dot has ignored me, yet again!!! Getting paranoid now dot! ;-)

[Ethel]

Cookies aren't necessarily infections, virus or trojans.

They can be of benefit to you - they can speed up your internet browsing

[dot.hawkes]

I'm sure there are cookies that are quite useful, but AVG is saying i have all these Trojans and worms after just one evening using ab

[Ethel]

Trojans and worms are not cookies - if you look at AVG it should tell you where they are or were on your pc and name them.

[B00]

mmmm, cookies....

[dot.hawkes]

sorry bathsheba I'm watching Tiger bay and fascinated with it!!! can'r decide whether Horst Buccholtz made this before or after The Magnificent Seven

[legendis.god]

Ab is indeed riddled with adware and malware.
Its been flagged many times by macafee security center as a site of high risk.
On my computer.
Ive also in the last 10 days got something calle , lookingnation.com home.


I remove it with spybot , macafee, antimalwarebytes.
restart the computer and my home page is changed to this

http://www.lookingnation.com/

When its removed it shows up as hijack.homepage.
ive posted in the tech section and had no answers and cant find even googling a way to remove it yet.

ive now given up.

many other users have posted about this.
i believe , dabees i think posted this, that ab was bought earluier this year and since then the edvertising seeems more in your face and the adware is like a tidal wave of rubbish.

If anyone knows how to remove this homepage hijacker then point the way to the answer .

[dot.hawkes]

Yes it does, for the cookies, but the Trojans and worms are not listed as cookies they are listed as threats

[dot.hawkes]

Hello B00, good Christmas?? Did Little B00 get you up at 6am?? lol

[Bathsheba]

Ok dot- i'll forgive ya! Someone was talking bout Pete Duel the other night and i tried to alert you, but no joy! x

[B00]

Watcha dotty :-)

No she didn't, I woke her at 7.30, I'd been awake ruddy hours waiting for her to wake up, I was giddy as a kipper and couldn't stand it any longer and went to get her up- she then promptly walked right past her stocking...lol

[Whickerman]

legend -try system restore? It may help

[dot.hawkes]

Oh soz Bath where was that? I know it's his anniversary

[Ethel]

That's because trojans and worms are threats.

It should still tell you where they are.

[dot.hawkes]

Oh yes I get you know Ethel, where they were on my harddrive as opposed to where they came from, well it is odd cos they are all in
C:/system Volume Information/-restore,
then a lot of numbers and letters after that bit

[Bathsheba]

Sorry dot, but i'll never be able to find it now. He was just mentioned as being a good looker by someone, and i'd just seen you chatting on another thread so i nipped on to tell you. xx

[daffy654]

Turn off system restore,run avg,remove threats,reboot computer,turn system restore back on. The reason they are coming back is because they are in the restore folder dot....every time you switch the PC on they reload.

[Ethel]

That's in your system restore, dot.

Try turning off system restore, rebooting and turning it back on