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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
A message keeps popping up in one of my machines in an account running
in the background. It keeps saying, "warning: please update the display driver and program". It looks like it's coming from Nvidia about the graphics driver. So I updated to the latest 195.62 WHQL drivers from Nvidia, the installation went fine, and the drivers are running fine, but I still get the message! There's nothing newer out there, other than maybe some beta drivers. I'm running with an 8600GT video card from Palit. I found one similar problem, posted on Nvidia's own forums: Problems with 8800 GS drivers +IE scrolling - NVIDIA Forums http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=73822 It's about an 8800GS rather than an 8600GT, but it seems rather similar. But there didn't seem to be any answer to that one. Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
Yousuf Khan wrote:
A message keeps popping up in one of my machines in an account running in the background. It keeps saying, "warning: please update the display driver and program". It looks like it's coming from Nvidia about the graphics driver. So I updated to the latest 195.62 WHQL drivers from Nvidia, the installation went fine, and the drivers are running fine, but I still get the message! There's nothing newer out there, other than maybe some beta drivers. I'm running with an 8600GT video card from Palit. I found one similar problem, posted on Nvidia's own forums: Problems with 8800 GS drivers +IE scrolling - NVIDIA Forums http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=73822 It's about an 8800GS rather than an 8600GT, but it seems rather similar. But there didn't seem to be any answer to that one. Yousuf Khan If the message pops up in a window, try looking in Task Manager the next time the window opens to determine what application owns the window. If the message is in a "balloon tip," what notification area icon is it associated with? -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... A message keeps popping up in one of my machines in an account running in the background. It keeps saying, "warning: please update the display driver and program". It looks like it's coming from Nvidia about the graphics driver. So I updated to the latest 195.62 WHQL drivers from Nvidia, the installation went fine, and the drivers are running fine, but I still get the message! There's nothing newer out there, other than maybe some beta drivers. I'm running with an 8600GT video card from Palit. I found one similar problem, posted on Nvidia's own forums: Problems with 8800 GS drivers +IE scrolling - NVIDIA Forums http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=73822 It's about an 8800GS rather than an 8600GT, but it seems rather similar. But there didn't seem to be any answer to that one. Yousuf Khan I've been using Nvidia video cards and drivers for 10+ years, and I have never seen a reminder message to update my drivers. If I were you, I'd scan for malware on the system. Try whatever you have installed as long as the definitions are up to date. You might also try MalwareBytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html . -- SC Tom |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
SC Tom wrote:
I've been using Nvidia video cards and drivers for 10+ years, and I have never seen a reminder message to update my drivers. If I were you, I'd scan for malware on the system. Try whatever you have installed as long as the definitions are up to date. You might also try MalwareBytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html . Well, I do already scan with Ad-aware and Spybot S&D, semi-regularly. Besides, these popups don't fit the profile of malware, as it's not offering to take me to a website to update my drivers or something like that. Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
Lem wrote:
If the message pops up in a window, try looking in Task Manager the next time the window opens to determine what application owns the window. If the message is in a "balloon tip," what notification area icon is it associated with? Good idea, I'll try to remember to do that next time. It's not a balloon tip style popup, it's a regular dialog box style popup, and all you can do is to click the "ok" button on it. It does nothing else. Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
Yousuf
This is a malware and you should use the 2 following free tools to get rid of it. Ad-aware and Spybot S&D will NOT do the job on this one Use the 2 following tools MalwareBytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html . -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... A message keeps popping up in one of my machines in an account running in the background. It keeps saying, "warning: please update the display driver and program". It looks like it's coming from Nvidia about the graphics driver. So I updated to the latest 195.62 WHQL drivers from Nvidia, the installation went fine, and the drivers are running fine, but I still get the message! There's nothing newer out there, other than maybe some beta drivers. I'm running with an 8600GT video card from Palit. I found one similar problem, posted on Nvidia's own forums: Problems with 8800 GS drivers +IE scrolling - NVIDIA Forums http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=73822 It's about an 8800GS rather than an 8600GT, but it seems rather similar. But there didn't seem to be any answer to that one. Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
that prompt and a redirect to a spoofed nvidia.com site dumped into your
hosts file Zap: youre a spambot too easy -- _ _ "Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... SC Tom wrote: I've been using Nvidia video cards and drivers for 10+ years, and I have never seen a reminder message to update my drivers. If I were you, I'd scan for malware on the system. Try whatever you have installed as long as the definitions are up to date. You might also try MalwareBytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html . Well, I do already scan with Ad-aware and Spybot S&D, semi-regularly. Besides, these popups don't fit the profile of malware, as it's not offering to take me to a website to update my drivers or something like that. Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
On Jan 14, 12:16*am, "Peter Foldes" wrote:
Yousuf This is a malware and you should use the 2 following free tools to get rid of it. Ad-aware and Spybot S&D will NOT do the job on this one Use the 2 following tools MalwareByteshttp://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and SuperAntiSpywarehttp://www.superantispyware.com/download.html*. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Yousuf Khan" wrote in ... A message keeps popping up in one of my machines in an account running in the background. It keeps saying, "warning: please update the display driver and program". It looks like it's coming from Nvidia about the graphics driver. So I updated to the latest 195.62 WHQL drivers from Nvidia, the installation went fine, and the drivers are running fine, but I still get the message! There's nothing newer out there, other than maybe some beta drivers. I'm running with an 8600GT video card from Palit. I found one similar problem, posted on Nvidia's own forums: Problems with 8800 GS drivers +IE scrolling - NVIDIA Forums http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=73822 It's about an 8800GS rather than an 8600GT, but it seems rather similar.. But there didn't seem to be any answer to that one. Yousuf Khan This "message" can also from one of the "all in one" driver update "crappy" tool. These, once install, monitor their own data base and tell you these type of message when they have any update. These do not "make sure" that they will work. These tools might not be listed as "malware" but should be "outlawed!!!!' |
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almostbob wrote:
that prompt and a redirect to a spoofed nvidia.com site dumped into your hosts file Zap: youre a spambot too easy Good point, I didn't remember that. Sure enough, I went into my hosts file and saw the following lines inserted: 66.98.148.65 auto.search.msn.com 66.98.148.65 auto.search.msn.es IP 66.98.148.65 corresponds to a site called ns1.funkstaserver.com. Looking it up, there seems to be discussions about it being a site infected with the "WIN.MSSQL.worm.helkern", whatever that is. Don't know if my aforementioned "update your display drivers" alert created this, or if it was something else, but obviously I'm starting a scan with previously suggested tools, right now. Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
Peter Foldes wrote:
Yousuf This is a malware and you should use the 2 following free tools to get rid of it. Ad-aware and Spybot S&D will NOT do the job on this one Use the 2 following tools MalwareBytes http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and SuperAntiSpyware http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html . Okay, I've done that now, Malwarebytes found one which looks like it might be the culprit. Malwarebytes simply categorized it as a "Trojan.FakeAlert", and it was a file under the %appdata%\Google folder called "updovl32.dll". I'll see if the alert pops up again, otherwise hopefully this fixes it. I wasn't even thinking along the lines of malware, it looked like a normal message. Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
smlunatick wrote:
This "message" can also from one of the "all in one" driver update "crappy" tool. These, once install, monitor their own data base and tell you these type of message when they have any update. These do not "make sure" that they will work. These tools might not be listed as "malware" but should be "outlawed!!!!' Yeah, I once had one of those types of programs installed, called DriverDetective that I tried for awhile. Didn't really find it too useful, and then it started asking for registration fees, so I uninstalled it. But the message looked quite a bit like something like it, so I thought maybe some piece of it had not been uninstalled. But it is looking like it may have actually been malware. Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
On Jan 14, 10:19*am, smlunatick wrote:
On Jan 14, 12:16*am, "Peter Foldes" wrote: Yousuf This is a malware and you should use the 2 following free tools to get rid of it. Ad-aware and Spybot S&D will NOT do the job on this one Use the 2 following tools MalwareByteshttp://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and SuperAntiSpywarehttp://www.superantispyware.com/download.html*. -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Yousuf Khan" wrote in ... A message keeps popping up in one of my machines in an account running in the background. It keeps saying, "warning: pleaseupdatethedisplaydriver and program". It looks like it's coming from Nvidia about the graphics driver. So I updated to the latest 195.62 WHQL drivers from Nvidia, the installation went fine, and the drivers are running fine, but I still get the message! There's nothing newer out there, other than maybe some beta drivers. I'm running with an 8600GT video card from Palit. I found one similar problem, posted on Nvidia's own forums: Problems with 8800 GS drivers +IE scrolling - NVIDIA Forums http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=73822 It's about an 8800GS rather than an 8600GT, but it seems rather similar. But there didn't seem to be any answer to that one. Yousuf Khan This "message" can also from one of the "all in one" driverupdate "crappy" tool. *These, once install, monitor their own data base and tell you these type of message when they have anyupdate. *These do not "make sure" that they will work. These tools might not be listed as "malware" but should be "outlawed!!!!' Looks like you win the prize on this one. Finally tracked down the program and found out what it is. The program that is giving this message is called Tbpanel.exe which is part of a package called VDOtools, which is provided by Palit Corporations as part of their Nvidia driver installation program. I had long since migrated over to the reference drivers from Nvidia, but this part of the original Palit drivers. I uninstalled the VDOtools package. Here's the description: http://www.liutilities.com/products/...brary/tbpanel/ Yousuf Khan |
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Keep getting message to update graphics driver
On Jan 14, 2:22*pm, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Peter Foldes wrote: Yousuf This is a malware and you should use the 2 following free tools to get rid of it. Ad-aware and Spybot S&D will NOT do the job on this one Use the 2 following tools MalwareByteshttp://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and SuperAntiSpywarehttp://www.superantispyware.com/download.html*. Okay, I've done that now, Malwarebytes found one which looks like it might be the culprit. Malwarebytes simply categorized it as a "Trojan.FakeAlert", and it was a file under the %appdata%\Google folder called "updovl32.dll". I'll see if the alert pops up again, otherwise hopefully this fixes it. I wasn't even thinking along the lines of malware, it looked like a normal message. * * * * Yousuf Khan Well, it turned out that this wasn't part of a malware program, it was just an old OEM video driver installation program that was giving this message. However accidentally, the anti-malware programs did find a real live malware app sitting on the disk, so there was a side benefit to this hunt. Yousuf Khan |
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