Anyone else have a virus?, after the download Options

[Brett W]

I seem to be having some sort of problem after I down;oaded that video of the Carrera GT.

I keep getting pop up messages that say:

sychost.exe- application error
"the instruction at "0x010016c6" referenced memory at "0x8da8e0b". The memory could not be "written". "

click OK to terminate the program
slick cancel to debug the program

Then it either restarts the machine or opens Visual C. It has happened with a couple of diffferent ".exe" programs (RPC, LSAS, Sychost, etc)

I am running Winblows XP home. Tried an overwrite and that only made it worse. Ran Norton, nothing found.

I need some help from you pros out there.

[Hawktel]

Go here and download this

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?...p?page=download

Then run the Update on it. And give the poor bastard running the site a Fin.

See your Nortons doesn't find it because its not really a virus. Its spyware. Sometime ago the shmucks running the antivirus companies (including the shmucks I'm pimped to) worked out some kind of sweet heart/look the other way deal with the spyware companies. Kinda of a We'll send you business, and you send us business thing.

Could then you get little gems like downloader.dluca.b As Mcafee is calling it.

As far as I can tell, it uses a spyware application to open your firewall, and then a virus componet gets on your machine. Then they protect each other, so right now, I smile and tell people "Well, your fucked when you got that, best reformat"