recovered from viruses, now access scanner shows emails sending sending sending

I’m not to familiar with Prevx I haven’t used it for general cleaning as there have in the past been a lot of FPs. So I tend to stick with the more known products MBAM and SAS.

Looks like some of the other stuff which was detected and cleaned up by MBAM ended up in restore points again, though it is very hard to say for sure as some of those file names are different, but the Restore Point (\RP7\ and \RP8) seem to have been flagged again, so possibly there was more than MBAM found.

So it seems that with the multi-application approach has cleaned up quite well. Keep both of those programs, update them and run periodic scan (weekly or fortnightly, etc.) to improve overall detection rate.

I would now suggest that you run a scan with avast if you haven’t already done so, if that comes up clean then it is just a case of monitoring your system for anything out of the ordinary.

Now you really need to get a firewall sorted out to help prevent a recurrence of what happened and that one you tried I haven’t heard of and doesn’t seem to have been up to much.

Many forum users are using these:

  • PC Tools Firewall seems to have the least user headaches as it doesn’t seem to be constantly asking the user questions about this and that.
  • Online Armor for the most parts fine but it has caused some users grief after avast program updates and that is something you have to watch out for.
  • Comodo is now a suite and you have to do a custom install so as not to install the antivirus element (or use the add remove programs to remove the AV element if already installed), of all the firewalls listed this seems to be the noisiest in asking questions, depending on settings and elements used, so it could be daunting for those not to familiar with firewalls or their systems.
  • Outpost Firewall 2009 free, a cut down version of the Outpost Firewall Pro version, which should still provide good protection, http://free.agnitum.com/. Download, http://www.filehippo.com/download_outpost_firewall/

hey there, the avast scan came out clean. i’m so relieved.

regarding the firewall…the reason it didn’t catch this, is because when i caught it i didn’t have one going. well when this happened, there was a point where i thought i was in the clear, and my husband installed the innovativesolstartupfirewall because it’s what’s on the network. we used to use pctools for a long while, and for some reason, which was some kind of good reason i can’t recall, he put the innovativesol on instead.

however, it’s in my mind right now. the innovative solutions seems to be catching everything. for example, the running of the malwarebytes. it picked it right up and asked me if it was okay to put it in, so i did click yes.

if anything more comes up, i will post back.

and thank you so much for your prompt and courteous attention. it is greatly appreciated.

You’re welcome.

Okay I"m still running strong. i got brave today, opened my internet explorer, reading email, loaded nfl.com, which is a good test of the functionality, all good. thank you so much!

i will consider this thread closed then. boy, thanks man!!! ;D

No problem, glad it is sorted.