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Technical Help & Discussion => Broadband, Networking, PC Security, Internet & ISPs => Topic started by: Michelle on December 24, 2006, 12:05
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My dad has these ...........
movieland and popcorn.com
- norton doesn't remove them but detects them at times. He's tried running all manner of scans and add and remove programmes but still they are there, there are alot of files from the sounds of it. They no longer send pop ups but they don't look good.
I found what I thought was a removal tool for both but they both want you to subscribe, does anyone know of any free downloadable tools to remove these.
He wouldn't be able to manually remove them...... the only other option I guess is to run norton with system restore off in safe mode would it? I hate doing that :lol:
And may I take this chance to wish you all a
:xmas: and a happy new year :santa:
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I had a trojan a few weeks ago Michelle.
It killed off my Norton AV.
I downloaded AVG free and ran that.
It found 7 infected files and deleted them and then Norton came back to life.
I still had a popup to a porn site that came up when I opened a few sites, especially Ebay for some reason, but it didnt seem to affect anything else on my pc.
I had been meaning to wipe my drive and install Vista for sometime so after a couple of weeks I did that but try AVG free and see what that does for you.
I suggest that you download it then run MSCONFIG and tick selective startup and then in Startup untick all the norton or symantec programs in there then apply and restart and then install and run AVG free.
If it fixes anything then uninstall AVG free and retick the Norton and Symantec programs that you unticked in MSCONFIG.
I dont think its a good idea to have 2 AV programs running at the same time.
Even when I unticked AVG frome the startup it somehow still ran something and messed my incoming emails up somehow so its probably best to uninstall it.
I have kept the AVG free exe on my hard drive so I can always install it again if necessary.
I dont know if its better than Norton, just different and I think if I had been running AVG when I got the trojan then it would have killed that and installing and running Norton would have fixed it.
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oh blimey!
Well I sent him AVG this morning and he was running that last time I spoke to him. So I'll tell him what you said.
Thanks Sandra :)
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I just recently installed this, Michelle, and it found things my other anti spy ware has never found.
The full programme is only available for 30 days but the free part still works. :santa:
Hope this might help your Dad.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-spyware-free/lng/us/tpl/v5
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Xoftspy should be able to remove it.
more info on it:
Alias: popcorn.net, trojan.popcorn, spyware.popcorn.net, MoviePass.tv. MoviePass, MovieLand, MediaPipe
Popcorn or PopCorn.net is hacker tool. A Hacker Tool is any software application that performs a wide range of hacking related tasks without user's permission. Activities include: disabling a user's anti-virus software or personal firewalls, gaining access to sensitive data, removing copy protection and modifying system settings
This program is Adware and also hijacks Internet Explorer. Popcorn.net is very difficult to get rid of and the company behind it tries to sign up users to long term contracts.
Popcorn.net is a highly dangerous spyware. Usually Popcorn.net may log keyboard activity of the user and take snapshots of the system. Popcorn.net uses stealth installation and Popcorn.net removal is very difficult.
more info here: http://www.nosnoopware.com/removals/popcorn.htm including how to manually remove it.
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I would recommend SuperAntiSpyware (SAS) (http://www.superantispyware.com/) over XoftSpy (sorry, Sam!), because last time I used XoftSpy, it produced over 100 false positives, and I believe it's got quite unreliable.
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Yes, I've removed XoftSpy too. It claimed false positives on my computer which it claimed to remove but they would always re-appear on re-running the application. No other antispyware picked up these so called high risk trojans.
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Okay, thanks for your help guys - I'll get that superduper one and try that. :santa:
:xmas:
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well I only said it cause I heard it removes it... I'm not actually convinced it does much, i have it on my machine but dont use it often, maybe time for a change... ill try what you suggest for some fun