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HELP!!! What do I do? TOSCDSPD.exe is infected by Win32:Beagle-AHE [Trj]
DavidR:
It means that the infected file has been dealt with, how it came to be infected is the 64,000 dollar question. So it may be worth running some other tools to see if there is any undetected or hidden elements of this infection on your system, see below.
I take it you scanned the Acoustic Silencer installation file, found it to be clean and installed it without any avast alerts ?
You can plug in and scan your ipod's storage using the Simple User Interface regular on-demand scan. Or having plugged it in, using windows explorer, right click on the ipod drive and select, Scan selected areas for viruses, etc.
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If you haven't already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode and report the findings (it should product a log file).
1. SUPERantispyware On-Demand only in free version.
2. MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, On-Demand only in free version http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/malwarebytes/mbam-setup.exe, right click on the link and select Save As or Save File (As depending on your browser), save it to a location where you can find it easily later.
diana_loves:
Yeap!! I scanned the file I downloaded from the Toshiba site. Bug free according to Avast. Installed it. Acoustic Silencer is now working smoothly. Needless to say, I owe you big time! The guys at Symantec support tried for about 40 minutes to convince me to invest in a $150/30-day long solution saying that every minute wasted trying to get information in public forums could potentially mean the total loss of my data as well as my laptop.... I'm now seeping a glass of wine in your honor, so Cheers!!
As for the origin of the infection, the rar file I thought I was downloading was a trial version of Muvee (a video editor). And as soon as I ran the setup file in the rar (which, of course, I forgot to scan first *Insert much deserved face-slapping here, please*) I got the mysterious "Blackbox Decoder Install Console" screen which upon closing triggered the whole crash of my antivirus. My initial panicked reaction was backing up all the important info and deleting both the rar and the extracted file folder. I don't know if that was such a good idea as it probably would've been helpful to scan those files too to answer the 64,000 dollar question.
I'm now only left with the pain-in-the-butt Windows Defender issue, which mainly is not generating any trouble except for the nagging feeling of knowing that it is there, not doing a damn thing for my system and can't even find a way to unistall it to see if it can be "reinstalled" successfully (it doesn't appear in the list of programs for uninstall in the control panel). Any ideas on this one?
Regarding the other suggestions, I have ran MalwareBytes Anti-Malware several times both in Safe Mode and Normal Mode and I hasn't located any other infections. I guess that's good? I'm now downloading SUPERantispyware now to see what it finds.
I'll keep you posted!
DavidR:
You're welcome, I guess they don't know much about the avast forums ;D
MBAM is a good application doesn't take up much resources unless you run its on-demand scan and worth keeping as part of a multi-application approach to your security as is SAS. Multi-application approach is great with the right applications, ones that compliment (not clash) each other and these work fine with avast.
I generally pause the Standard Shield whilst running scans with these scanners, if running in normal mode (not required in safe mode as avast isn't running), overall this speeds up the scan duration.
diana_loves:
Haha! My guess is they don't know much about forums at all
Ok. Done. Finally got to run SUPERAntiSpyware and it found nothing on the laptop. The ipod seems to be clean according to Malwarebytes's and AvastPro so I guess I'm in the clear?
Now I'm just wondering how to get rid of the Windows Defender useless component which is just... there. Like having a corpse on my Control Panel. Any ideas on how to get it off if it doesn't appear on the Uninstall list?
DavidR:
Well useless is perhaps a little strong, even though I don't rate it very much, it doesn't seem to catch anything (from comments in these forums) but I believe it is meant to have resident protection (though it doesn't seem to have done much for you in this case).
I have never used it so I have never tried to remove windows defender, but my friend google probably does ;D
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=remove+windows+defender
This is just one of the hits, http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=479680&SiteID=17 another http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_to_remove_windows_defender_from_vista.
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