Zombie spamming from my PC, Symantec/Spybot, nothing detects it!
I visited a web page, my AVG scanner told me about a virus, but did not allow me to delete, heal or move to vault, so I had to close the virus warning window, result being infection (I suppose shutting down power would have been better).
Some sort of a spammer software has been installed. My AVG mail scanner detects it, it's likely using its own SMTP engine and AVG detects the port usage.
I've tried "everything", but nothing works, nothing detects it. Other trojans and viruses that came on to the PC has been removed, but there's obviously something that's not being detected. It appears that shutting down the SVCHost local service temporariliy stops it, but svchost starts again by itself.
Tried: AVG, Symantec online scan (no detection), Housecall, Bit Defender, Antitrojan A2, Giant, Spybot, Spy Doctor, Spyhunter.
I suppose I have to just format my harddrive? And perhaps installing Symantec is the only way to prevent this in the future, though Symantec has not detected anything.
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Jan Olsen in Networking Firewalls
