Virus checker stopping unothorised Visa up-load
 

My Virus checker Trend pccillin keeps coming up with a warning window, stopping Visa up-load. Is someone trying to hack my details and should I strengthen my security on other items. I have my browsers set so that all private data is password secured and is deleted everytime I leave the net. Am I still vulnerable.

I am still having this problem, I have the warning window come up 3 time in the last two hours. Do I have anything to worry about.

Sorry, Christine. No idea what's going on for you but I hope someone answer you soon.

Suggest you run a full virus scan of your computer and see what it comes up with, post your results when you have them. You could also try installing a Spyware program like Webroot SpySweeper and see what that comes up with.

nirofo.

nirofo I have run a virus check this morning, it came up with nothing, not even malawhare. Its getting a worrying as I buy things of the net and even though I delete all private data after, and reboot I it is still coming up with the warning.

Try downloading and installing Webroot SpySweeper, it often finds things on my computer that my antivirus and firewall have missed.

Here's a web link to their download page, you can run a free scan from there also.

http://www.webroot.com/uk/downloads/

nirofo.

Suggest as well as nirofos SpySweeper, try Spyware Blaster from
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
and

Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

Hope this helps.

Duncan

nirofo I downloaded the program and run it and it has found 4 spy cookies.
bs.serving-sys cookie
2o7.net cookie
serving-sys cookie
a cookie
These 4 are in the status as found and another 27 which mustn't be important.

Saphire;
You can google the found malwares to see what each do. It seems the second and third could be responsible for what you experienced. Check this link or likewise:
2o7.net cookie
Among the suggestions for spyware your best bet are:
Spybot
Adaware
Both free to use. I can't live or leave pc without these 2 that have saved a lot of trouble in past. BTW you need to have both as they are complimentary to one another, finding the malwares that the other one wont recognize.

Having that said, remember, spayware recognition softwares are very different from antivirus softwares so you need both of them separately and need to run them periodically that way. You have your antivirus so I wont get even there.

Well still you are not completely secure. That is missing the 3rd part. A very important part indeed, which is a firewall. You need this to allow what comes in and what goes out. In other word, in particular, nothing goes out without your knowledge.
"ZoneAlarm"
is the king of this part. Beware that this can be very distracting when run at full secure way, asking you every thing for being safe after an "Enter" bottom is pushed.

After all these if you need my advise. Have the general precautions, the common sense ones, all the time. Have a whore PC (Excuse my language) that is used for any thing virtually and gets reformatted and reinstall with OS etc once in while. This assures a very fast PC all the time, you disappoint a lot of potential hackers and cookie makers. Then another one for your important stuff, paying bills, buying on line, etc. Make sure Chris is not hearing this or I can not play anymore Mac Joke with him, I use a mac for this part. This one never surfs the web for fun or by anyone else (Hopefully as teenagers are sort of creatures that can not be thought at home and I have one).

Well to sum up what you are still missing is the firewall.

Windows Vista has made a lot of security issues integrated and is told to be a lot harder to get into. So may be you want to have some plan for near to mid-far future.

Hope this helped.

Thanks for your help sassan I already have adaware and spybot installed but it didn't find those cookies. Would zone alarm run alongdide my other firewall pccillian as that is the one that is giving the warning.