Is this malware or is it safe? +Other Malware questions

Viruses and worms
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I apologize for as many questions as I have asked on this forum. But I like to be sure that my family’s computer is safe. :slight_smile:

My family member downloaded free music from a website (Music Oasis, though I think they might have went on to another free music website too) on my family’s computer and it added several new icons to the desktop. Such as “1000 Free Songs”, “Free Dolphin Wallpaper” and “Weather Bug”. It also changed my Firefox main page. It changed it to Yahoo apparently, and when I first when on Firefox a pop up came up saying something about thanking us for joining a contest and something about $5 and retailers. A new toolbar also appeared, but all it was, was the weather temperature from “Weather Bug”.

There are also a lot of new ad-ons on Firefox. Here they are:

PriceGong
Compare price on e-commerce sites.

Shop to Win

Yahoo Toolbar

MyFreeze.com NetAssistant
Copyright 2010 W3i Holdings, LLC. All rights reserved.

There was also “Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant” but I think we had that Ad-On before…

Anyway. I deleted the new icons about free music, wallpapers and Weather bug and deleted them from the trash can too. I scanned with Updated MBAM and BitDefender and both came up clean. Avast hasn’t detected anything yet either. Windows Defender asked me if I wanted to permit the new programs to run, and I denied them.

My family member said he may have accidentally agreed to something that gave us all these icons but I’m not sure…
Oh and just recently a lot of Avast pop-ups came up and it was just the “Resident Protection” pop-up. I think that’s okay.

I also have new Yahoo toolbars at the top of Firefox.

Is this normal? Or could this be malware? It seems like malware to me, but then again, I’m not very smart when it comes to malware.

One last thing

How can you disconnect your computer from your network completely so it won’t connect to networks when it turns on?
Sometimes I like to do that to “protect” my computers. But I can’t seem to find out how to do it with my new computer. It’s my first Windows 7.

Also,
If your computer is turned off but still connected to the network, can it get malware from another computer/network that it’s connected to when it turns on?
And does disconnecting your computer from the network (Where the computer can still connect back up to the network, but it can’t be seen under “View Network Computer and Devices”) prevent it from getting malware from other networks/computers?
I know I’ve asked these questions before, but my question is more in detail this time.

Many apologizes for so many questions and for the long post.

Thanks in advance. :slight_smile:

EDIT: I realize this post is long enough, but I uninstalled all the programs that got installed from the music website, but after I uninstalled PriceGong it took me to it’s website even though I didn’t have the internet/firefox up at the time. Is this normal?

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I do not like Toolbars as they track too much information.

MyFreeze.com is blocked by Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (MBAM) on 208.87.33.151
http://hosts-file.net/?s=208.87.33.151&x=27&y=5 <=== hosts 1219 malware sites

Post a MBAM log here if you like.

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Well here are some suggestion that I want to give:

  1. Never install any toolbar :slight_smile:
  2. If you use LAN/WLAN you can go to control panel, network connections and Right click on LAN/WLAN, choose disable.
    When you want to reconnect again,then you go back,right click and enable.(Not sure in windows 7 but try it)
  3. Downloading songs is more make you have more chance to get infected than watching porn stuffs >_> I guess so…!
  4. Why are you using two antiviruses together? One is already enough!
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Thanks for the replies! ;D

@YoKenny:
I scanned with a updated MBAM and it came up clean.

@Shiw Liang:

  1. I don’t like toolbars either, but my family member accidentally got more tool bars by downloading free music. I try to stay away from them but my family members have got them on accident before.
  2. Thanks for the info. And that stops other computers from becoming infected?
  3. Really? Wow I didnt know that.
  4. Someone suggested BitDefender to me because it removed malware that I supposedly had and MBAM wouldn’t remove it. But it turned out to be a FP. But I only have the “Quick Scan” for BitDefender, not the whole program and I just use it as a second opinion. Avast is my main antivirus program.

The computer seems okay. I uninstalled all the programs/toolbars…
Do you guys think that I’m infected? Everything that I scan with says I’m clean. (MBAM and BitDefender, and Avast hasn’t told me anything about malware)

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Yup you are 99% sure to be clean :slight_smile:
hahaha!
Bitdefender it is up to you if you wanna keep it!

One suggestion to your familly :slight_smile:
If the installation already ticked the installation of the toolbar and for the changing of homepage, tell them to go through the installation carefully and unticked those thing :slight_smile:

Hehehe By the way I got 2 weeks of holidays(Main reason:easter)
So…I have sometimes nothing to do and just browse a bit this forum ;D

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Ok good. Thanks for both your help!
;D

But I still do have a “Yahoo” search bar at the top of fire fox… Should that be there? I’m pretty sure I uninstalled everything.

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How do I uninstall Yahoo! Toolbar?
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/toolbar/toolbar8/general/general-07.html

http://www.google.no/#hl=no&source=hp&q=how+to+remove+yahoo+toolbar&btnG=Google-søk&meta=lr%3D&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=how+to+remove+yahoo+toolbar&gs_rfai=&fp=7d9b64f09ee760d1

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Thank you. But I can’t find the “Yahoo Tool Bar” under FireFox’s ad-ons.