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[whotheheckami]

I seem to be in a bit of a pickle laptop wise.

I was warned by AVG that I'd picked up a Trojan so I ran a scan and cleared what I could to the vault. However, I noticed some problems:

1. When opening programs the file associations seem to have stopped working
2. Search engines seem to have been hijacked and take me to "junk" sites

I re-ran the scan and found more Trojan files - I forced these to clear to the vault and re-booted. Now I appear to have deleted "csrss.exe" from the registry and am getting the following error message when I try to connect to anything other than gmail I'm getting the error:

Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections

I would welcome any or all advice

Thanks

Mel

Comments

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Once you have things working again? iObit's Security 360 (a free download from cnet.com) has two nifty features: Security Holes, I think it's called; and Passive Security, likewise. The latter has long lists of sites such as doubleclick.com, doubleclick.net, & cetera, that it loads into the security settings of your browsers. (It did for two of the three I use, anyway, and cut-and-paste took care of the third.)


I wasn't terribly happy with AVG. Instead, I've been using ZoneAlarm plus Avast(free) plus supplemental/zero-day software ThreatFire for ... gosh, a couple of years now, I guess ... on my machine and my mother's (she's notorious). The only infection either of us has had in that time was something her PC picked up from a game site, when my nephew overrode all the security bells and whistles.