07-24-2009, 06:49 PM

I downloaded the dr.web linkchecker as a firefox add-on, and for the first weak or two, it worked perfectly. Now, when I wanna check a link with dr.web, the same ole screen pops up, but now instead of it scanning, it always stops at two bars, and will not continue. The window dr.web opens up as is a GIF, and i'm not sure if it was when it worked. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing works, and so far, it is really pissing me off because i cant find anyone else who has experienced this problem. Can anyone help me?

03-20-2011, 09:18 AM

Wish I could help here, but I'm struggling with DrWeb, too. I never downloaded it, but last week began getting hundreds of emails a day from"DrWeb-MailD" and the subject line "undelivered mail: failure notice."

The content of the emails is a mixture of Asian language characters and English, and there's an indication that "Trojan.inject.28090" is to blame.

As I noted, I'm literally getting hundreds of these a day. I've filtered them off to my junk mail file but would love it if someone can tell me how to stop them. For the last six months, the number of "failure notices" I've received has increased noticeably, so if there's some sort of filter software or virus protection I should be using I'd love a recommendation. Thank you.

Best,

Frank DiGiacomo

03-20-2011, 05:38 PM

Try this:-

http://support.drweb.com/questions/mac/


And keep well away from these antivirus etc programs.

03-20-2011, 10:42 PM

Harryb,

Thank you for your response, but I'm afraid I'm pretty naive when it comes to this stuff. I never installed DrWeb, so how can the company help me?

03-21-2011, 05:09 PM

Click on the final link about uninstalling.

And avoid Ukraine software companies lie the plague!

03-23-2011, 11:22 PM

That final link you mention seems to be for someone who downloaded DrWeb. I have never done so and it is not among my applications. The best I can tell is that someone is using my email address to send out Spam or perhaps a virus and the recipient third party has DrWeb, which is sending me a failure notice.

How do I stop that?

That is, unless DrWeb is some sort of scam that cons you into buying the app so that you then have to uninstall it? But that doesn't make sense to me.

03-24-2011, 05:30 PM

Frank are you by chance using hotmail or Gmail which have reported security problems? If so change your password etc. as soon as possible.


http://communications-media.lawyers....ty-Breach.html

04-03-2011, 02:01 PM

The problem was with a Mac.com address, but I followed your advice and the crazy stuff has stopped coming. We'll see if it holds. In the meantime, THANK YOU. You've helped save my sanity.

Best,

FD

04-03-2011, 05:49 PM

My pleasure Frank. No comment about Mac users here losing their sanity!!