Comments on: “You have a security problem” popup

By: steve

steve — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:34:45 +0000

I used stopzilla. It will do a search for all the viruses,adwares,spywares etc. Its a pain because it won’t let you remove them until you pay, BUT it does show you where the viruses,adwares,spywares etc. reside and you can manually remove them. By doing this I got rid of the “you have a security problem” popup.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:40:21 +0000

I followed your advice and downloaded and purchased Spyhunter. I have run it several times and it has not solved my problem (You have a security problem popup). If you are going to recommend them on the site you should be sure the product works. I’ll let you know how much trouble it is to get a refund.

By: nes

nes — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:10:06 +0000

help!!!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:56:30 +0000

Trojans/Malware sucked up a lot of my Christmas vacation time. Here’s the technique I used that seemed to work fairly consistently:

1. UNPLUG YOUR MODEM. Scary, I know, but this seems to prevent certain virii like Vundo from re-appearing after being removed.
2. Turn off Auto-Restore for your hard drives. (Certain virii use auto-restore to resurrect themselves.)
3. Reboot to Safe Mode
4. Run a full virus scan with the Anti-Malware program, Ad-Aware, trusted Anti-virus program.
5. Reboot to Safe Mode again
6. Scan again. If you did “smart scan” the first time, do a “full scan” this time.
7. Go make a sandwich. Read a book. If you have a lot of files, it’ll take a while.
8. Did you get “no virus/malware found” finally?
9. Reboot to Normal Mode
10. Scan again, Just To Be Really Sure.
11. Did you get “no virus/malware found” again?

You should be okay. Turn Auto-Restore back on, and make a Restore point. Plug the modem back in.

And browse carefully.

Dennis

By: Afzal Azeem IT Engineer

Afzal Azeem IT Engineer — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:10:05 +0000

plz: how to remove the pop up you have a security problem

By: elohim meth

elohim meth — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:02:26 +0000

go ahead and download Malwarebytes‘ Anti-malware from download.com, it is for free and it works great ! plus it doesn’t drain your pc resources

By: hunt

hunt — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:55:45 +0000

LSG i suggest you throw it in the gutter and go buy another!

By: Lynne Segall

Lynne Segall — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:13:30 +0000

I bought the SpyHunter software and ran the scan in response to getting the “you have a security problem” pop up and numerous other ploys to get me to download fake spyware, etc. I ran the scan once and it identified 92 “parasites” which I then removed. The pop up didn’t go away, so I ran the scan again and it identified another 7-9 parasites, which I also removed. Still no progress – the pop up and all of the other annoying messages are still there.

What else do you suggest?

Thanks,
LGS

By: andrew briggs

andrew briggs — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:49:17 +0000

hello… my son tells me that an antivirus warning is a scam and sometimes is actually a virus; also i get security problem popups which i learn is a virus.. didn’t know all this info.. learn something new every day… he tells me to just use the mcafee that is all i need…

By: Javier Martinez

Javier Martinez — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:17:15 +0000

You have a security problem!