I'm usually very careful about browsing the net but somehow I picked up some malware along the way.

 

Thankfully I killed the initial crap by disabling it in MSCONFIG from starting up.  

 

Then thanks to Malwarebytes I killed the rest of it from wreaking havoc on my PC.  

 

So anyway be careful out there and Malwarebytes is a pretty nice freeware program that works.  But careful if you use Reality XP - it deleted my .dll file on accident.  (Technically I deleted it when I selected "yes" to delete).

There is  a restore option if  you didn't  delete  the  quarantine folder  that is:)

Yep, I have malawarebytes on my PC too, and yes, it does regard Reality XP as a bad guy.

I put the RXP dll on MWB's ignore list, that's what resolved the issue for me.

 

Now, what really frightens me, is that MWB has detected stuff on my PC that had gone undetected by Microsoft Essentials for weeks? Months? ???

I was just going to mention this.  I didn't know anything about MWB.  I used MSE in the past and it has done a good job (in the past).  But MSE didn't find any of this malware....   :wacko:

 

I read about it from NickNs post at simforums.  Looks like I'll be using it from now on.

I use MSE as well.  It works fine, but no one program is going to catch everything.  I used to use MWB but now I recommend using Spybot Search and Destroy.  It's free, well supported and It picks up stuff that even MWB misses.  I also recommend making routine backups of your registry.  If you do manage to get infected with something nasty, it's a pretty simple way of removing it completely.  I've been set up like this for a while now and I've not experienced any bad stuff happening in my system since

Cheers,

Jeff

MWB may be detecting false positives don't forget. Like it does for the RXP stuff.

 

I use MSE and MWB. There's no conflict from using both. So far, MWB isn't detecting anything MSE didn't for me.

(...) but now I recommend using Spybot Search and Destroy.  It's free, well supported and It picks up stuff that even MWB misses.  (...)

 

 

Thanks for that one, Jeff. Just got rid of a few more of these little digital ######s.   B)

 

EDIT: Ooops, I just got censored for calling malware names.  

Edited February 2, 201412 yr by olli4740

I also use Winpatrol,it saved my bacon when i picked up malware ,Winpatrol  asked me if I wanted to allow the to  program run!,as i did not know what the program did I checked it out and It was malware,Winpatrol had it stopped it from starting,I was then able to  perform a System restore,winpatrol  program is free

Like Jeff, I use and recommend SpyBot Search and Destroy, ESET NOD32 for AV and I also make a routine of backing up everything I can. I do not rely on System Restore to fix anything.

 

 

 

EDIT: Ooops, I just got censored for calling malware names.

 

That's okay Oliver, you are just writing what most of us are thinking and being very polite about it I might add. :Big Grin:

 

Regards,

Mel