09-15-2013, 07:30 PM
Lynn,
it's been a while since I ran Malwarebytes, but after this conversation, I thought it might be a good time to do it again. This time it showed I had picked up something called, "sweetpacks". I think I got it when a friend of mine had his email highjacked and I opened something "he" sent. I use Avast! A/V, Spybot, ccleaner and a few others, but this went undetected. Malwarebytes cleaned it up, but when I rebooted Sweepacks reinstalled itself. I had to do a complete scan to get rid of everything, a total of 53 files
. I had no idea this bugger was hiding on my machine, but it could have crashed anytime. Like Tom and the others say, one type of protection doesn't seem to be enough nowadays. 
it's been a while since I ran Malwarebytes, but after this conversation, I thought it might be a good time to do it again. This time it showed I had picked up something called, "sweetpacks". I think I got it when a friend of mine had his email highjacked and I opened something "he" sent. I use Avast! A/V, Spybot, ccleaner and a few others, but this went undetected. Malwarebytes cleaned it up, but when I rebooted Sweepacks reinstalled itself. I had to do a complete scan to get rid of everything, a total of 53 files
. I had no idea this bugger was hiding on my machine, but it could have crashed anytime. Like Tom and the others say, one type of protection doesn't seem to be enough nowadays.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD