>>I have some kind of a virus or malware that redirects me to a "bogus" site when I go to my Internet banking account. I ran McAfee and AdAware Personal. But so far nothing "disables" this trojan or whatever it is.
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>>Any recommendations on program I should purchase to clean up my PC?
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>>Thank you.
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>Trojan Hunter -
http://www.misec.net/>SpyBot -
http://www.spybot.com>AVG Anti Rootkit -
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-rootkit-free/lng/us/tpl/v5>NOD32 Anti-Virus -
http://www.eset.com/>
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>You will need to prevent the infection of the detection software. Best bet would be to boot into safe mode and run these anti-malware tools.
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>You will also need to consider whether its not best to completely reinstall the o/s. Once infected with serious malware one can never really be sure that its eradicated. There is always a chance that the malware remains. Best practice -> reinstall from clean media.
Thank you very much for your suggestions.
From my discription of the problem (being redirected to a spy/bogus site that attempts to get some of my personal information), which of the 4 above you think I am dealing with? (trojan, spybot, rootkit, virus)? I want to see where to start.
Thank you.
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