Weird Applications running

[red-beard]

I found two applications running, seemingly in the background which seemed to indicate they were webpages.

jx.xxas.net/cod/srun

Look familiar to anyone?

[madmmac]

Malware

[red-beard]

It looks like it is trying to load malware from that site, but Windows stopped it from executing.

[azasadny]

Run MalWareBytes to clean it, then install Microsoft Security Essentials (it's free from Microsoft) to keep your PC clean...

[slodave]

Gotta say, Art. I've been testing MSE, based on what you've posted and I'm not sold yet. I finished cleaning a heavioluy infected PC the other day that hasd been running MSE. It did an okay job of identifying things, but only while Malwarebytes was running. I'm not sold yet.

[azasadny]

I've been using MSE after I clean up a PC that had not been running it. Once a PC is infected by malware, MSE doesn't do a great hjob of cleaning it up, but after the PC is clean, MSE really does a good job of preventing malware from getting on the PC. I use MalWareBytes to clean an infected PC, but sometimee the PC has to be reformatted and Windows reinstalled...

[slodave]

I had installed MSE when the pc was clean.

I beg to differ on having to format and reinstall. The pc I mentioned above was F'd up from two worms, a boot sector virus and other malware. The worm deleted a registry entry and a file and broke the TCP stack. Took me 3 days, but it's all clean, with the registry entry entered by hand and a reinstall of SP3 (XP).

It's back in service. We'll just have to see what happens.

[Flieger]

I'm sure glad there are people like you around to fix computers when they stop working right. I don't have problems too often but when I do I would really need your help (when it is fixable-not the hard drive dying).

[slodave]

Yup. Not much one can do once the motor in an HD seizes, except use it as a paper weight or get kicked in the nuts over and over, while paying for professional recovery.

[azasadny]

Slodave,
I don't have the time it takes to fix Windows when it's really hosed. Most people I know have their data backed up, so all they lose are their apps and they just reload them after I get Windows back on, nice and clean. We've tested MSE in a lab environment and have seen very, very little that will get past it. It's not perfect, but I have it running on every PC I work on and I've never had to clean a PC that I've installed MSE on twice...YMMV...

[slodave]

I do, it's the client that doesn't. I like the challenge.