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O.T. eBay malware/virus?
I've got this twice now when I
clicked my favorites link to logon to eBay http://i64.tinypic.com/16lhede.jpg So does eBay have a problem? It's one of the sites I frequent allot. Robert |
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O.T. eBay malware/virus?
Mark Twain wrote:
I've got this twice now when I clicked my favorites link to logon to eBay http://i64.tinypic.com/16lhede.jpg So does eBay have a problem? It's one of the sites I frequent allot. Robert That thread is a day or two old. Other people are seeing what you are seeing. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ebay/commen...irectorbmutrj/ Not the exact same redirector is reported in this thread. It gives the appearance of being a false positive, if you look at a virustotal sample for a selected URL. https://community.ebay.com/t5/Techni...7724701/page/3 https://www.virustotal.com/ru/file/8...is/1542467129/ However, you're detecting this with SuperAntiSpyware, and in that virustotal example of a false positive, SuperantiSpyware isn't triggering. Maybe it really is a redirector. One poster seems to feel the enabler, is using your bookmarks entry. If you enter ebay this way: https://www.ebay.com do you still get the message ? Paul |
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O.T. eBay malware/virus?
No, I was running a SuperAntiSpyware scan at
the time and Avast is the program that spotted it. It doesn't happen every time I go on eBay but I just noticed it a couple of times and was concerned I may be infected. I typed the address as you suggested and no issues but the problem is that I have all sorts of bookmarks for eBay. So what am I to do? I run scans daily and it never detects anything? Thoughts/Suggestions? Robert |
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It has nothing to do with the problem
but I ran a HDTune scan and thought you might like to see it. http://i66.tinypic.com/2e543h0.jpg Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
It has nothing to do with the problem but I ran a HDTune scan and thought you might like to see it. http://i66.tinypic.com/2e543h0.jpg Robert That doesn't look "bad". Some of the spikes could be from other activity on the computer in the background. None of the spikes "touches down" onto the baseline. You also want to keep pictures like that for later, to compare to future traces. So you can see any "progression". I've had drives, brand new, where the trace was quite rough on the edges. So if I scan such a drive later, I have to compare the plot, to when the drive was new. The best OS I have here for drive testing is... Win2K :-) On Windows 10, that version of HDTune no longer works perfectly any more. The transfer curves are maybe 10MB/sec lower than they're supposed to be. If I need to know exactly what the transfer rate on a drive is, I have to switch back to Win7 or something (that's on the other machine). Paul |
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O.T. eBay malware/virus?
Here's the HDTune scan of the 780,
I'm running a Kapersky scan on the 8500. http://i65.tinypic.com/28wfdso.jpg Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
Here's the HDTune scan of the 780, I'm running a Kapersky scan on the 8500. http://i65.tinypic.com/28wfdso.jpg Robert That's not looking very good. Check the Health tab, the Reallocated or Current Pending "Data" column. A value of 0 in the Data column is good. A value of 5500 would be bad. The value is thresholded, and isn't an absolute measure of affected sectors. There could have been 100,000 bad sectors, before the counter comes off the 0 value and increases. That graph suggests you should be able to "feel" an effect when it's like that. If you have your spare handy (the spare you were threatening to buy), you could clone over and replace it. It's really up to you, when to replace it. You have good backup practices, so I'm sure you have an image you can use if the drive stops working completely. When I had a drive here, that "felt" slow, I replaced it. The health indicator (Reallocated) data column was still 0 (says drive is good), but the drive was obviously in bad shape, because you could feel the slowness in everyday use. I wouldn't even have run HDTune, except it felt bad, and then I could see in HDTune, the benchmark told the tale. The drive varies between 80MB/sec on one end and 40MB/sec on the other end. From a generational perspective, the drive could be ten years old. I still have drives in the pool like that (a couple 250GB ones) with that level of performance. I would do something about that, if it's at the "annoying level" now. Paul |
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I was also surprised at all the spikes
etc. As I've said, I only use the 780 as a backup for the 8500 and I barely use it like now while the 8500 is doing the Kapersky scan. I really don't notice any slowing down though. So yoiu recommend I replace the HD? I ran Kapersky 10 on disk boot sectors, hidden start-up objects and C: and it found nothing but said the databases were obsolete. So I clicked update and just got a pop-up that said my Kapersky databases are corrupted and gave me the option of rolling it back which I did. Then it gave me a screen with the following: Threat types: Total Databases release date Malware 9238519 11-18-18 5:34 pm |
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I ran another HDTune scan and its
worst than the other! http://i68.tinypic.com/2qio6ps.jpg Then I clicked on the tabs: http://i65.tinypic.com/2mg9p9e.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/amwfv5.jpg and am running a HDTune error scan of the HD Robert |
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O.T. eBay malware/virus?
Mark Twain wrote:
I ran another HDTune scan and its worst than the other! http://i68.tinypic.com/2qio6ps.jpg It looks to me like two programs on the computer, are "competing" for the hard drive. That's not necessarily a failure pattern. Are you, perhaps, doing an AV scan and running the HDTune benchmark at the same time ? That will invalidate the test results and give abnormally-low looking results. When the machine isn't scanning and isn't doing Windows Update, that's when the user gets a chance to run HDTune. The machine has to be "quiet" before you run HDTune. And the best OSes for the job, are the ones where the user is firmly in control of what the computer is doing. Paul |
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Whenever I run HDTune I close everything so
nothing is running. For some reason the HDTune error scan had stopped (maybe I did it accidentally) In any case, I started a new scan and will post it as soon as it's finished. I do have 1 spare Seagate 2GB HD but we've set it up for the 8500 OS. I'm still going to buy more spare HD's and PSU etc. It's just I've had allot of things hit me one after another but I'll get it done. Robert |
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As soon as the Error Scan is finished I'll
do another HDTune scan. Robert |
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Here's the third HDTune scanof the 780:
http://i66.tinypic.com/5byyrq.jpg and here's the error scan: http://i64.tinypic.com/2q3dr1v.jpg Robert |
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O.T. eBay malware/virus?
Mark Twain wrote:
Here's the third HDTune scanof the 780: http://i66.tinypic.com/5byyrq.jpg and here's the error scan: http://i64.tinypic.com/2q3dr1v.jpg Robert With regard to the second picture, the drive has to be "near death" for you to see red squares in the bad block scan. That's because, as long as there are spare sectors to substitute, the drive can maintain a semblance of health. If you did see mis-colored (non-green) squares, you'd want to replace the drive at your earliest convenience. ******* I can show you some mis-collected scan results. Here, I test my Win7 drive, a 2TB drive, and it looks shockingly bad. The circled items on the right, are examples of things that might interfere on this setup. https://i.postimg.cc/85kyDyGc/busy-d...ample-win7.gif Now, if I set up two drives, the "suspicious" win7 drive and a Win8.1 boot drive, I can try testing with the network cable disconnected to reduce interference. If the network is available, modern OSes like to check Windows Update. Pulling the network cable helps tame them. You can see here, my Win7 drive is actually perfectly healthy. https://i.postimg.cc/wM8QM08D/test-w...-when-idle.gif Whereas the Win8.1 OS drive, still managed to interfere with my testing. Here I'm scanning the C: drive, so you expect trouble. Only Win2K would allow this test to run unimpeded :-) https://i.postimg.cc/d3YGw3rB/win-8-...ence-still.gif That's how tricky this stuff is. Paul |
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In message , Mark
Twain writes: [] I do have 1 spare Seagate 2GB HD but we've set it up for the 8500 OS. I'm still going to buy more spare HD's and PSU etc. It's just I've had allot of things hit me one after another but I'll get it done. Robert I _assume_ you meant 2 TB ... (-: [Although my first PC HD was either 40 or 80 _M_, but that was a _long_ time ago ...] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956) |
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