Who needs to use
CESAM Anti-Malware?
- If you ever perform any actions on the Internet, your computer and your private information are seriously threatened!
If your computer shows one or some of these symptoms and you think that it is infected, you can use the CESAM Anti-Malware Scanner to check it out. The scan is free and it takes only some minutes to get rid of malware that might be missed by your existing antivirus protection.
Visible Signs Internet Technical
Visible Signs
- Your computer work and perform slowly.
- You start seeing annoying pop-up advertisements.
- Your computer had suddenly restarted.
- Your wallpaper, desktop or other settings have been modified and you can’t change them back to the way they were.
- You start seeing the messages that your system is infected from antivirus you have no idea about.
- You got the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) without any reasons.
- You noticed unknown shortcuts on your desktop or icons in the system tray or the quick launch panel.
- The programs that worked just fine before suddenly stopped working.
- You are unable to access some system applications – such as the Task Manager, RegEdit, Control Panel, MSCONFIG, etc.
- The computer or programs are often hanging (freezing) and other system problems happen without reasons.
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Windows errors or system warnings occur where they have never appeared before.
- Antivirus applications or your firewall shuts down unexpectedly.
- System restore or backup attempts using standard means fail.
- Your keyboard or mouse behaves unusually.
- Programs start on their own.
- Some dialog windows and menus appear corrupted.
- You start seeing unusual messages that do not look like standard ones (including offensive or humorous ones).
- The system plays unusual sounds.
- The CD-ROM opens and closes unexpectedly.
- No access to your folders, CD-ROM or hard drive.
- Your operating system fails to load.
Internet and Network
- Your Internet connection slowed down and it seems like somebody else is using your connection.
- Additional toolbars or components on the web browser that you didn’t install.
- Your Internet provider complains that your system is sending spam emails, although you never intended to do that. You get a lot of returned emails from people you don't know (such messages usually have headers/subjects like “Mailer-Daemon” or “Mail Delivery System”).
- Abnormal network activities and connections to unknown web sites. Your firewall alerts you to connection attempts from applications you have no idea about.
- Regular Internet connection problems or browser hang-up’s.
- No access to specific sites or other sites opening instead of the right ones.
- Inability to connect to Microsoft’s update server.
- Inability to update your antivirus software.
- Your homepage or other browser settings changes by itself.
- When you type an Internet address incorrectly, instead of seeing an error page you are sent to an unknown “search site” with lots of ads.
- The “Favorites” list in the browser – lots of unknown records that you never added.
Technical
- The Windows loading time has increased.
- Rebooting the system in the safe mode results in system hang-up’s.
- The amount of free RAM has drastically decreased compared with the normal consumption.
- The free hard drive space has rapidly shrunk.
- New unknown files started to appear, including files with randomly generated names.
- You started seeing a lot of processes that have nothing to do with the applications that you installed.
- There are new unknown entries in the MSCONFIG startup or the Startup folder.
- Some files or folders disappeared or their content has visibly changed.
- The size, date and modification time of files changed for unknown reasons (you can check this information by clicking the “Properties” item in the file context menu).
