How did my computer get a virus?
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Okay its my uncles, but I d/l'd mozilla firefox and only used mozilla, I also only used mozilla in safe mode. They have active vga toolbar pop up blocker. And several other virus search and destroyers. So I get on this morning to check my myspace on mozilla firefox (safe mode) and I got pop ups from porno.com or net or something and one from viagra on the internet explorer browser. I never downloadd porn or visit any porn related websites on the computer. Heck I only visit Myspace facebook and craigslist on mozilla(safe mode). Now they can't even get internet connection through internet explorer. Please tell me a scenario or something I must hve done to make the world mad at me. Really I just want to calm my uncle down. Does anyone have some sort of solution to this problem?
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Answer:
http://malwarebytes.org/ http://www.superantispyware.com/ download both to get rid of the virus. or just malewarebytes. you could have gotten a virus by clicking an ad. Ads are the worse, you know on the side those that say YOU ARE A WINNER etc etc. Those link to viruses. For Firefox and IE download McAfee SiteAdvisor and myWOT (look those up on google). They are plugins that show if a site is safe or not, and if it's not, myWOT blocks so you don't see it. Anyway, porno ads.. you sure your uncle doesn't visit porn websites and he clicked an ad? CLEAR COOKIES BY THE WAY. Download CCleaner, it makes it easier. But manually go to Tools, Options, Privacy, SHow cookies and delete them. I just reread and they can't access the internet so.. you have to download the antivirus software I gave you and put it onto a flash drive, or a disk, and put it on your uncles computer. Scan and the problem should be removed. Also toolbars are the worse. Get rid of it. The only toolbars I keep is google or the ones that came with firefox. Myspace and Facebook have viruses if you click the ads aswell lol. No ad is safe....
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you was probably logged n on some farm sex porn site while having jerk fest,, and downloaded the virus on those porn sites that your watching
Safe mode does not mean it's 'safe'; it means any add-on's are disabled. You may be the victim of the Microsoft hack of Firefox, which enables the 'iFrame' functionality to be incorporated into Firefox. Check your FF> Tools> Add-on's> Extensions: look for "NET Framework" or other Microsoft trash; also look in "Plug-in's" for other rubbish that you did not specifically request be installed. ("Active scripting" related junk). This allows a webpage to install software to your system, which may or may not be malicious; you have no way of knowing. In effect, it's an "Open Door" policy, and subjects you to 'Drive By installs', 'Opacity based attacks', and so on. Compromised websites (from whatever source) have 'assets' (different elements that make up the requested page); some 1st party; some 3rd party. Whenever a page is displayed, the user's web browser will interpret the page, discover the URL address of the asset server, and request that asset. This could be an image, flash animation, video, text, or other resource from the third-party server. Since browsers run 'on the fly', making no distinction between text and active scripting, malware (remote code execution) can be deployed into the receiving machine as the requested asset, and the malware is installed. So, enabled 'active scritping' and unblocked 3rd party cookies (aka 'assets') result in malware dutifully delivered and installed. One of the best ways to avoid malware being installed from the internet is to use Firefox with 'NoScript' add-on as your primary browser, and fall back on IE as a last resort, to view or interact with a sub-standard webpage. Switch back to FF when finished. Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ "NoScript" add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=Noscript&cat=all Run all applications inside 'Sandboxie' for even better security: http://www.sandboxie.com/ Intentional downloads from peer-2-peer sites; clicking links from known badware sources (social networking); allowing 'Active X' controls; and so on, will ultimately defeat any security barriers. Using a security 'suite' with all-in-one features is not the blanket coverage they purport; nor is it a free ticket for willy-nilly behavior. Another serious oversight is surfing while logged in on an 'Administrative' account. The cleverness of the crafters of malware, means you must at all times know what current, real time threats are & counter-measures. Combined real-time barriers, system configurations and user habits are your best first line of defense.
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