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Log submission

I am a new user of Sophos and ran the program for the first time. I have a windows command processor virus. I get a square pop-up every 15 minutes. I ran the program and it identified that I have a trojan. I clicked on the submit log button and I get a failed network error. So the program won't fix the trojan. Do you have any suggestions as what to do? Can you bypass the submit log and still fix the issue? I am at the "might be time to invest in a new computer" time. Thanks 



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  • If a picture is worth a thousand words, then that video is probably around 300,000 - accounting for length and framerate.

    Thanks!

  • To update: I have taken my computer to a computer tech. They ran antivirus programs and did some updates. Was told that they think the problem was gone and I could take my computer home. Hooked up my computer and pop-up immediately. GRR!! Made the decision to buy a new computer. I used the process explorer and had the extra column for virus and was able to capture the issue. It said not a virus and even right clicked the issue and selected "kill". Unfortunately this didn't work as the pop-up still appeared. I am a google chrome user and like to play facebook games. I was having an issue with one of my games loading so I refreshed a few times but still the game wouldn't load so I removed the game. Cleared google chrome's cache, removed adobe flash and ran ccleaner (not sure of the exact order). Then I reloaded adobe flash, reloaded my game and amazingly the pop-up is now gone. I still don't know what caused it or what exactly eliminated but it is now gone. (Crossing fingers for good hopefully) Anything happens again and it's a new computer. Thanks for the suggestions though. Much appreciated.

  • Turns out I was wrong. Pop-up is still there. I honestly didn't see the pop-up for over an hour so I thought the issue was gone, but turned on my computer this morning and pop-up is still there. New computer time.

  • Have you determined the parent process of the process responsible for the popup given the steps in the video?

    I wouldn't take it to the same place you've taken it to before they clearly have no idea what they are doing.

  • Without knowing more about the process (as jak has mentioned) it's hard to say what is causing the pop-up.  The summary is that your computer (Windows) had a Trojan detected but that's now gone and it's this annoying command prompt that runs every 15 minutes?

    I could start throwing out guesses.  I could suggest it's something about Chrome and maybe Google's own clean-up tool (https://www.google.com/chrome/cleanup-tool/) may help.  However it a bit of random guessing. [:S]  Another thing to check is what anti-virus software is currently installed.  What Sophos product/version do you have installed and do you have any other anti-malware software installed (i.e., did you install Sophos because your regular scanning tool wasn't pick up something)?  Again, another guess.

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