doug Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Have been havig a bit of bother sometimes on starting my PC. Will be posting more details later. In the mean time I've just completed a Panda Scan, it found 48 items of Spyware - 2 of which by Crucial it has disinfected but not the remainder. I attach a log from the scan. Any suggestions. I normally run Ccleaner and sometimes Cleanup.Activescan.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 ^Bump, Have just re-checked cookie settings in Ccleaner and checked that I only allow 12 and then did a clean. Running Pandascan now and it's still showing 48 Spyware items. Can't see anyway of killing them. Any suggestions? I don't think they are the cause of my problem but I want to eliminate them as a possible cause as well as I don't like the idea of them being present! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 doug, it would be best to do a HiJackThis scan and wait for one on the specialists to give it the once over.Do the HJT according to the instructions using a fresh download of the program http://forums.windowsforum.org/index.php?showtopic=6901 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Will do but don't want to overload them when I can eliminate some of the more obvious problems.Doing a house call run now. Prediction is that it'll take about 1½ hours to finish the scan.Can't do much more at present as it's a bit miserable outside here. When finished will be booking flights to Singapore for a 3 week special holiday later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Doug.. the majority of the stuff in that scan are Firefox cookies, I'm not sure if CCleaner does Firefox cookies as well as IE ones.To clear your Firefox cacheGo to Tools > Options. Click Privacy in the menu on the left side of the Options window. Click the Clear button located to the right of each option (History, Cookies, Cache). Click OK to close the Options windowThen reboot and do another scan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 CCleaner does clean Mozilla/Firefox cookies (if its set to !). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Those are the settings I use Boris. Have given up on house call. After 3 hours it completed stages 1 and 2 then went into idle mode at stage 3 and just sat there so after a further hour I gave up. Am going to do a hijack and post it in a separate thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 ok.. but clear your profile from within Firefox anyway. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Where's my profile? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 It's a hidden folder so you have to enable viewing of hidden files and foldershttp://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#locateI didn't mean clear the whole profile, I meant clear the cookies but I have another idea for you if you want to pop over to the other thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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