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What are the weird pop-ups on my computer?

Well, I’ve heard of spyware, and key-loggers. But I’m not sure what this is. It may be neither, or it might be both. Sometimes while I’m working on my computer a little black box will pop up and then disappear almost instantly. It’s been happening for a while, and I’m not sure what it is. I think it may be harmful, but I have no idea what it is. I could never read what it said because it usually disappeared too quickly. Today it happened again, and I actually got to read the words. It turns out that they said “Copying files”

Well, that can’t be good. Should I be concerned?

how can i find out if there is a keylogger on my computer?

i was browsing through a website looking through forums for an online game i play and they offered free in game money. now me being the stupid 3 year old i am clicked on it. later i saw people had commented all over the link saying how it was a keylogger and people who clicked it are going to get hacked. i ran a sweep with norton internet security and it found 26 tracking cookies but nothing else. all i want to know is how would i find out if my computer is infected with a keylogger? and if it is how would i go about getting rid of it?

What\’s the proper way to remove this virus(es)?

After I went into a website, I got what I thought was a (legit) Microsoft Security alert, it said that 9 viruses had been detected in my computer and they were the following (security alert level next to it in parentheses):

Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.dge (High)
Trojan Horse IRC/Backdoor.SdBot4.FRV (Critical)
AdvWare.Hotbar (High)
W32.Nimda.J@mm (Medium)
W32.Yaha.B@mm (Critical)
Trojan-PSW.Win32.LdPinch.abm (Critical)
Trojan.Qoologic – key logger (High)
Adware.Win32.Winad (Critical)
Magic DVD Ripper (High)

Anyways, I suspected that the whole warning is a fake, and haven’t ran anything. I just want to know how should I proceed into getting rid of it? Proper way? Thanks in advance.

Should I be worried here?

Two days ago I started recieving these emails in my inbox claiming to be from the Hotmail postmaster. They were the emails you get when you fail to deliver an email message to someone. They have the heading: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) and they are from postmaster.mail.hotmail.com.

Now the first thing I did was a test. I sent out an email to a fake Hotmail address I made up, just to see if the delivery failure address was the same. It was not. Look at these 2 screenshots:

Here is the first one:

This one is the real email I sent out, being returned to me.

Here is the second one:

This is one of the ones I keep getting in my email inbox.

Notice the difference? On the first one, the real one, the return address was postmaster@hotmail.com. On the other email, it was postmaster.mail.hotmail.com. So going by that you’d think I am in the clear and they are fake right? Wrong. I next looked at the actual full header for the email. Here it is:

From postmaster@mail.hotmail.com Fri Jan 13 19:38:41 2012
X-Apparently-To: ————— via 98.139.220.145; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:38:41 -0800
Return-Path:
Received-SPF: none (domain of bay0-omc1-s23.bay0.hotmail.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)
X-Originating-IP: [65.54.190.34]
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO bay0-omc1-s23.bay0.hotmail.com) (65.54.190.34)
by mta1002.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:38:41 -0800

Now, after checking up on both those IP addresses, they are both in fact registered to Microsoft. Hotmail to be exact. So while the messages have different delivery messages, they are coming from the same place. Now here is the thing, I am not an expert on email. I don’t know even close to as much about it as I do about other things pc related, so i don;t know if this is genuine or not. if it is,someone either has access to my account(which I doubt), or is somehow spoofing my email address as a way to get around spam filters. I heard of this happening, and I have no idea how it is done, but I know it has nothing to do with your account being compromised.

Ordinarily in a situation like this I would simply cancel the account right from the get go. However, this is my main email account and the though of going through and redoing everhting is just….wow. I thought about contacting Microsoft and finding out what the deal is but I can;t even find a phone number to contact them. The only thing they have for Customer Support is pretty much their forums and I refuse to go on there and be told the same old change your password and scan your computer crap like I am a child.

I know 100% certain that my pc is bug free. I have been building pcs for close to 20 years and I am not lax in my antivirus or firewall. I have never even had a virus in my entire time on the internet, throughout my I think 11 different pc’s I have built since the mid 90s. Probably because I don’t really use the internet other than on sites I know are safe. So to reiterate, this is not something virus related where my account was hacked. There are no keyloggers or anything like that on my system. I open task manager everytime I turn my pc on to check for any unknown processes or anything, and I make sure my performance stays within a limited margin on various testing programs. So again, this is not a situation where someone got a hold of my password and has hacked my email account. I also do not throw away anything with passwords written on them, they get burned, as does all my mail when I am through with it.

I also change all online passwords using a random password generating program that generates random series of letters, numbers etc at least once a month. The point of all this is I am a security freak, so please don’t give me the usual answers like check your pc for viruses etc, as I can assure you, it is clean. I even manually went in and checked both the entire file system and for registry entries that seemed out of place. It took me the better part of the day but I could find nothing out of the ordinary.

Now aside from completely freaking out about this, what should I do here? And I swear to if someone says scan my pc and change my password I will hunt you down and kill you. Thank you!
@J

Wow you must feel really good about yourself huh! Real classy guy you are! Upset that a girl knows more about pc issues than you? More than likely you just didn’t know the answer so you posted the first thing that came to mind. Typical ignorant people who know nothing about pc’s.

Trojan/Keylogger Problem?

Recently I got a worm Lsas.Blaster.key logger. and Trojan bnkwin32 key logger. My question is: Do these worms/Trojans steal account information like Facebook/msn/Forex/aim, credit card stuff… etc. I use Mozilla as my browser. My other question is how can I get rid of them, I now they’re trojans trying to trick into buying the security,so someone help me please, I really need to know if they really do steal info.

A virus called win 7 is attacking my computer?

It popped up while i was browsing a website and itsays that it is an antivirus program that i have to install. i dont believe it. it keeps popping up saying that i am infecting with keyloggers and stuff. i tried setting my clock forward seven days b/c some website said to do that. it didnt help either. What is going on? how do i get rid of it?

What "genious" made it legal to put Communist Chinese made parts in USA weapons systems?

Some say a “back door” in some part, made i possible for Iran to take control of the most advanced pilot-less drone. A few weeks ago it came out in the news that the drones had a key logger virus that the Air Force could not remove, and yet. they kept flying them. Money, cutting costs and increasing profits, puts us and out Airmen, Marines, Soldiers, Sailors at high unpredictable risks.
WHO ALLOWS THIS BUYING OF ELECTRONICS FROM ONE OF OUR ARCH ENEMYS AND PUTTING THEM IN UNITED STATES WEAPONS SYSTEMS?

Is it possible to instal a free keylogger on a mac?

My cousin keeps getting my passwords on my mac, is he using a keylogger? And if not is it even possible to put a keylogger on a mac?
and my cuz isnt wont buy anything so he wouldnt pay for a keyloger

Is it possible to download a free key logger without viruses?

I dont know much about computers but i know enough to download stuff… When ever i try to download a key logger my computers program McAfee stops it from downloading saying theres a virus. or it will let my download and install but when i try to open the program it then stops it and says theres a virus…. So i delete it and im back where i started again.

The reason why is because my GF has been going out alot lately when she never normally did. she also changes her stories about where she has been if i ask her again the next day. She has been very protective of her phone lately when she would normally leave it laying around. She also has ex BFs on her facebook. i just want to KNOW the truth but all i can do is suspect witch will get me no where when I pin something on her. I also didnt call her for two days and when she called she was mad and asked if i was cheating on her right out of the blue.

Do Runescape gold/item generators actually exist?

I’m just wondering but, do Runescape gold/item generators actually exist? Or are all of them keyloggers/fake? I’m not sure if there’s even ONE out there that ACTUALLY works. I’ve downloaded one, and it didn’t have any viruses, but doesn’t work. So, Do Runescape gold/item generators actually exist?