I have found PSGUARD everywhere in my registry and can not even delete that
crap. I am pretty much convinced that it is blocking my abilty to activate my
windows firewall. I am running winXP Pro sp2.

WD detected it once but did not remove it. I have the Microsoft Anti spyware
beta and it found it on every search and showed it to remove and I always
clicked to remove it but obviously it never did.

I am not sure if the malicious software removal tool can be used because it
never finds the PSGUARD. AVG software claims to be able to remove it but it
don't.

Like a bad dream there PSGUARD still sits in my registry and will not delete.

How can this crap be removed. I figured Microsoft surely has the know how to
romove this pain in the ass program.


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LordHavoc

LordHavoc wrote:

> I have found PSGUARD everywhere in my registry and can not even delete
> that crap. I am pretty much convinced that it is blocking my abilty to
> activate my windows firewall. I am running winXP Pro sp2.
>
> WD detected it once but did not remove it. I have the Microsoft Anti
> spyware beta and it found it on every search and showed it to remove and
> I always clicked to remove it but obviously it never did.
>
> I am not sure if the malicious software removal tool can be used because
> it never finds the PSGUARD. AVG software claims to be able to remove it
> but it don't.
>
> Like a bad dream there PSGUARD still sits in my registry and will not
> delete.
>
> How can this crap be removed. I figured Microsoft surely has the know how
> to romove this pain in the ass program.

See:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic17258.html
"How To Remove The Smitfraud / Psguard / Virtualmaid, Self-Help Guide"

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Windows - Internet Explorer since 2003
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http://www.microsoft.com/security/ma.../families.mspx
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Regards, Dave


LordHavoc wrote:
> I have found PSGUARD everywhere in my registry and can not even delete
> that
> crap. I am pretty much convinced that it is blocking my abilty to
> activate my
> windows firewall. I am running winXP Pro sp2.
>
> WD detected it once but did not remove it. I have the Microsoft Anti
> spyware
> beta and it found it on every search and showed it to remove and I always
> clicked to remove it but obviously it never did.
>
> I am not sure if the malicious software removal tool can be used because
> it
> never finds the PSGUARD. AVG software claims to be able to remove it but
> it
> don't.
>
> Like a bad dream there PSGUARD still sits in my registry and will not
> delete.
>
> How can this crap be removed. I figured Microsoft surely has the know how
> to
> romove this pain in the ass program.