Why am I still being blocked and redirected from anti virus sites and blocked from symantec live update?

Question

i use symantec corp., caught "trojan.blusod and joke.blusod" and they are quarantine . But when i had it, xp antivirus 2008 try to down load its self but i turned off the computer before that happened.

So once the trojans were quarantined, i fixed the regeristy hacks listed by the symantec site http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2008-062711-5534-99 .....

i also completely cleaned up the host file too by copying and pasted a good version of it, to the effected computer.

But still i am being blocked from av sites and being redirected to ads.

i also think i have sasser because i got the 60 sec abort countdown..

Answer 1

Symantec/Norton are responsible for BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Death )

see story

http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...

Most malwares are designed to attack popular

antivirus products (like Symantec, Norton ), but since free anti-virus product is much less used, it's capable of fighting the viruses when industry leaders fail.

I would suggest that you get Avast Home Edition version 4,

which is free for personal use.

Avast is a very effective and free anti-virus program because it can do

a boot time scan in safe mode and it will remove the entire virus on your PC.

Even those viruses that hide inside the system restore folder.

Windows utilize a restore utility that backs up selected files

automatically to the System volume information /System Restore folder.

This means that an infected file could be stored there as a backup file,

and most anti-virus programs will be unable to delete these files. You

must disable the System Restore Utility to remove the infected files

from the folder if you use another brand of anti-virus. However, you do

not need to do so if you use Avast to do a boot up scan in safe mode.

Avast Anti-virus installation

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

How to configure Avast ?

http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/soe/an...