Warning Message

[dr_sybourg]

Hey

My Laptop is coming up with the message

Warning: your computer is probably infected with a virus! please contact your IT support person for help. Shutting system down in 20 seconds.

The system does not shutdown, Mcaffe Enterprise with latest Dat's, McAffe Clean boot and Spybot s & d find nothing!

Help please!!!

 

[Gally]

macafee put viruses in you comp mate.
dont touch that shi*te

 

[dr_sybourg]

Its not the normal mcaffe tho, the enterprise version is a lot lot diff from the retail one!

 

[Gally]

probly a lot better mate i have something against macafee and
my comp tech told me not to go near macafee crap.
avg free and stuff on the net is class even he recommends it.

 

[Black-Clio-1.4]

As above.....

Norton and Macafee, are shite. They both place viruses on your PC to prove there 'worth'.

Unlike Avast which actually looks after your pc.

 

[Daz]

Norton and Macafee, are s**te. They both place viruses on your PC to prove there 'worth'.

Unlike Avast which actually looks after your pc.

PMSL. Yea.... right......

My guess is you have some spyware or something which is causing that - no legit anti virus software would shut down your computer. It'll just be a dirty pop up to scare you into spending £50 on nothing.

Have you tried Ad-Aware as well? Does it only do it at certain times? (as in, you're just browsing random web sites at the time it comes up - what web site is it?)

 

[McBunny]

As above.....

Norton and Macafee, are s**te. They both place viruses on your PC to prove there 'worth'.

Unlike Avast which actually looks after your pc.

haha :clown:

 

[dr_sybourg]

It appears in a windows warning dialouge box, not the usual ad pop up way. It doesn't seem linked to web browsing etc, it reminded me of the old blaster virus from a few years back.

 

[Daz]

Ah!
Ok.. I know the screen you're on about.

This one?

 

[Griff]

That's an old exploit Daz. He's on about something else.

 

[dr_sybourg]

Thats the one i was referring to, however not the one i am getting. It does'nt actually do the countdown or anythin, the is nothin in the startup folder, have googled every runnin task an nothin in msconfig

 

[Mike_182]

probly a lot better mate i have something against macafee and
my comp tech told me not to go near macafee crap.
avg free and stuff on the net is class even he recommends it.

Tell him to go f**k himself.

Even the home stuff, whilst resource hungry and by no means the best, is still very effective - the enterprise stuff is miles ahead of toys like AVG Free and other free Antivirus products.

As for the problem you're having, I'd be inclined to download Sysinternal's Autoruns, and see what processes are executed as part of WIN.INI, System.INI and User.INI etc. It's always found them when I've had issues with client's machines.

 

[C.J]

Download the latest version of AVG, and run a system scan to see if it finds any spyware.

http://free.avg.com/ww.download?prd=afe

 

[Adams_16v]

Is that message you wrote the exact words of the error?

 

[theduck]

AVG wont be free anymore from Friday iirc

 

[BioHzrd]

get Kaspersky best net security suit out there well next to Node32

 

[richy22]

My dads bigger than yours

 

[rctempire]

Do a quick online scan here
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

See what it pops up. Sounds like you have a wee nasty on the pc. Do you have windows defender installed? if not, get it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx
Do a scan and see what it results.

Also please go to Microsoft Updates and update the computer with the latest hotfixes.
If you are still stuck tonight PM me and ill take a look at the pc.

 

[Vern]

Spybot Search & Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

run a scan with that i'v used it for years and is pretty damn good imo

 

[dr_sybourg]

View attachment 29102

Morning all, right this is the error message which appears!

Only does it when logged on as a admin enabled account and connected to the network!

 

[Daz]

The weird thing is, that error isn't on Google at all if you search for it.. and *everything* is on Google

 

[Andy]

Clam AV.

 

[Daz]

Clam AV.

KDF? Is that you?

Good for scanning e-mails on a mail gateway that..

 

[Andy]

I foudn it to be the best lightweight solution out there.

Kaspersky is great, but I can never keys to work. :evil: Clam AV is just as good.

 

[dr_sybourg]

just done the trend micro scan, nothing found!

do you think it could be somethin like this -- http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Fake-and-Harmless-Virus

 

[KDF]

Clam AV.

KDF? Is that you?

Good for scanning e-mails on a mail gateway that..

nah, I use a combination of DNS Blacklists/FSAV/SpamAssassin and Mimedefang with custom call ahead code on my sendmail server actually

 

[KDF]

View attachment 29102

Morning all, right this is the error message which appears!

Only does it when logged on as a admin enabled account and connected to the network!

Someone is sending you a net message. Its an old trick if you turn off the messaging service (under services) you wont get the messages anymore.