I Really do not have a clue how this has got onto my computer but it keeps popping up its called WnPC Defender.. Last thing i have downloaded was a mod on RFactor.. its just randomly popped up today!

This has happened before but with some other anti virus malware..

Btw honestly i havent downloaded any porn so dont start saying its from that..

It's spyware. It pretends you have a virus and trys to con you into downloading the software which costs money.

Download AVG 8.0 and Spybot S&D and do full scans. Should sort ya right out.

Ok thanks for the help mate

If it turns out that you cannot access any anti-virus sites to d/l anything (like mine did) then give us a shout, as i downloaded and burned the installers for, AVG8.5, Zonealarm firewall, Adaware SE, Malwarebyte's Anti-malware, Spybot S&D, and Ccleaner onto CD yesterday.

Ill post the disk to you if it helps mate.

WinPC Defender requires more than Spybot IIRC. I forget what though.

I had this virus a while back and Malwarebytes Antimalware did the trick for me. I think I used Vundofix as well....

Quote from http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-winpc-defender.html :

Kill processes:
WinPC Defender.exe

Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “WinPC Defender”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinPC Defender
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\WinPC Defender

Delete files:
WinPC Defender.lnk WinPC Defender.exe

Or download Malware Bytes' Anti-Malware... has always worked for me in the past. Except for when the virus would automatically close it (When I had the Antivirus 360 virus), which was solved by simply killing the virus' process.

Right il download a few of them and see if it goes...


its annoying me so much,

as i type this now its popping up.. now i cant even see what im typing.

Quote from JO53PHS :

Or download Malware Bytes' Anti-Malware... has always worked for me in the past. Except for when the virus would automatically close it (When I had the Antivirus 360 virus), which was solved by simply killing the virus' process.

Yes, well remembered. I also have Malware Bytes and it's very good. Best of all, it's free.

I recommend SUPERAntiSpyware too. That and MalwareBytes are the best free antimalware programs imo.

Its sorted, thanks everyone

Nice so i guess they have stopped now?

OT, but I'd recommend cutting down on the number of applications you've got running in your system tray. I counted 21, and while some of those must be related to your troublesome spyware, that's still way too much imo. I've got two icons there right now- a volume control and the 'currently connected' icon.

A part of good computer house keeping means having open only the software which you are only definitely using at the time- the rest can be considered bloat. A lot of programs will install with the default option of launching in the system tray on startup, but every program launched that way increases startup time, and contributes to general system slowdown. Right clicking on some of those icons will give options of turning off 'launch on startup'.

Good luck with the virus stuff btw!

Quote from Electrik Kar :

OT, but I'd recommend cutting down on the number of applications you've got running in your system tray.

Ouch! I didn't even notice that with the screenshot. With that many just in the system tray, imagine what the process list looks like! I'd have to guess at least 55 in the process list. He has more icons just in the system tray than I have process listed in the process list!

Lol at the possible risks in the winPC defender box.

'Windows hangovers and crashes without limitions'

Just imagine those system warnings.....

The application failed to initialise properly due to explorer.exe being on the piss last night and feeling very unwell this morning, this is the reason behind your systems sluggish performance.

Quote from mrodgers :

He has more icons just in the system tray than I have process listed in the process list!

Indeed.

I hate having useless crap in the background. I've got it trimmed down to 19 services running and my old heap of junk remains swift and snappy to use.
It makes me laugh when i see people with their newish computers running like treacle, then you open up task manager and see 50-60 services running.

Learn housekeeping people....cut out the crap!

Hah yeah good thing you mentioned that, didn't note it first time but now checked again and lol'd at the system tray.

If I can guess it was the Malwarebytes what fixed it? I also had some similar crap and that was the fix.

Better than what I had one time. I had 1500 viruses, not spyware, viruses on my computer one time and it ruined everything. I had to do the Cromos thing and reset the harddrive back to when I got it. That got rid of everything, include things I needed for school.

When i first got given this PC about 18 months ago it was totally screwed with malware and stuff.
I managed to get adaware se installed on it and it found 976 problems!

It managed to fix all the problems but all the crap that was on it before must have wrecked the registry because it was painfully slow, plus alot of things would not work, such as media player, search feature, plus many other things that i have forotten.

I got around it for a while by downloading realplayer and using that instead, but in the end the slowness just did my head in as it was really bad, 30 seconds or so of the waving torch in control panel before the options came up one by one, then about another 30 seconds later the icons finally began to appear one by one.

It did my head in so i got my mate to wipe it and re-install as i didnt have the XP disk then.

I'm sure most of those problems were nothing more than tracking cookies.

I say you get rid of the computer and convince your parents to spoil you with a 3000£ Mac Pro, then you can:

1) Not be so ****ing stupid as to get viruses
2) Be made fun of for being spoilt with such an expensive machine
3) Get the **** away from LFS, becuase I'd probably die laughing reading all the threads going "HOW DO I INSTALL WINDOWS ON MY MAC!"

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

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A little uncalled for perhaps??

Everyone makes mistakes, plus anyone who says that they have never ever had encounters with viruses/adware/malware are probably lying anyway!

Give jordan a break.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I say you get rid of the computer and convince your parents to spoil you with a 3000£ Mac Pro, then you can:

1) Not be so ****ing stupid as to get viruses
2) Be made fun of for being spoilt with such an expensive machine
3) Get the **** away from LFS, becuase I'd probably die laughing reading all the threads going "HOW DO I INSTALL WINDOWS ON MY MAC!"

Little OTT perhaps? He hasn't come here attempting to throw money at the problem, he just wants help. While I do think anyone who asks for virus help here should just get a Mac (if you can't solve it yourself, or at least use Google, you shouldn't be using it...still, I'm not complaining, there's great money in solving other people's e-mess), you haven't bitched at anyone else who asked for help.

But yes, you shouldn't be doing anything to pick up viruses. Get a proper virus scanner (or two), and leave it running. My last 2 PCs have never picked up so much as a cough, and I did some fairly dodgy stuff back then I leave Avast free and Spyware Doctor full running on my system, with the latter doing a quick-scan every day. Sure is nice to see it pop up at 8 every day telling me I don't have so much as a tracking cookie

Quote from danthebangerboy :

A little uncalled for perhaps??

Everyone makes mistakes, plus anyone who says that they have never ever had encounters with viruses/adware/malware are probably lying anyway!

Give jordan a break.

none of my computers have been infected with any malware, ever. i run an adware checker once in a while, but i've never bothered with anti-virus software because it gets in the way. my current computer is almost 5 years old and i've never had a problem and never had to reinstall windows.

first rule: never trust anything.

it's not rocket science, but that's all you need. if you get infected it's because you broke the first rule at some point.