Antivirus Gold

[Mike Garland]

My home screen seems to have been hijacked by Antivirus
Gold. I can't move it or remove it and, because it covers
a number of my desktop icons, I have difficulty accessing
some of them. I've run Trend, MS Antispyware Beta, Ad-
Aware and Spybot (all latest versions) in Safe mode but
without success. Any ideas? I'm not a technie, so a
simple solution would be preferred.

 

[plun]

Hi

- First send a suspected spyware report to MS about this, menu tools
within MSAS.

Then choose one of these HijackThis forums and
they help you with this.

http://www.merijn.org/forums.html

or

http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30

Important, Register, read announcements and sticky notes
before you post !

HijackThis download:
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip

How to use HijackThis (be careful):
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtutorial=42

 

[RobbieA]

Hi Mike:

In addition to the excellent advice from Plun I suggest
you download CCleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com to
clean out all the hidden temp files areas. It's very
simple to use and very through.
On the "Issues Tab" you may want to uncheck "Unused File
Extensions" however...

Hope this also helps and regARDS,

RobbieA

 

[Mikolaj]

My home screen seems to have been hijacked by Antivirus

Gold. I can't move it or remove it and, because it covers
a number of my desktop icons, I have difficulty accessing
some of them. I've run Trend, MS Antispyware Beta, Ad-
Aware and Spybot (all latest versions) in Safe mode but
without success. Any ideas? I'm not a technie, so a
simple solution would be preferred.

Take a look here
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/How_to_remove_Antivirus_Gold_or_AVGold-t22397.html

 

[plun]

Mikolaj wrote on 2005-06-29 :

Take a look here
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/How_to_remove_Antivirus_Gold_or_AVGold-t22397.html

Hi Mikolaj

If a user knows what he is doing this is not a problem to follow this
guide.
But the challenge is if it is linked with Smitfraud and
others.............. :'(

So if Mike (he wrote "I'm not a technie" ] believe that he knows what
he is doing he can follow it otherwise
a forum is better I believe ^^

 

[Mikolaj]

Hi Mikolaj

If a user knows what he is doing this is not a problem to follow this
guide.
But the challenge is if it is linked with Smitfraud and
others.............. :'(

So if Mike (he wrote "I'm not a technie" ] believe that he knows what he
is doing he can follow it otherwise
a forum is better I believe ^^

Hi plun

Did you read the guide to the end? ;-) If so, you could find such
information and proper links

Important Note:

This infection tends to be linked, or installed, with 3 other infections.
It is advised that you click on each of the following links to determine if
there are any further malware that needs to be removed.

 

[plun]

After serious thinking Mikolaj wrote :

Hi Mikolaj

If a user knows what he is doing this is not a problem to follow this
guide.
But the challenge is if it is linked with Smitfraud and
others.............. :'(

So if Mike (he wrote "I'm not a technie" ] believe that he knows what he is
doing he can follow it otherwise
a forum is better I believe ^^

Hi plun

Did you read the guide to the end? ;-) If so, you could find such information
and proper links

Important Note:

This infection tends to be linked, or installed, with 3 other infections. It
is advised that you click on each of the following links to determine if
there are any further malware that needs to be removed.

Yup, I read that, a lot of challengies for someone not familiar with
spyware removals ........ B-)

But now he is warned takes it carefully )

You also have some good threads within Aumha about this removal.

 

[Mikolaj]

After serious thinking Mikolaj wrote :

I like that ;-) But it should look like "After serious thinking (what took
him far then a lot of time) Mikolaj wrote:" ;-)

Yup, I read that, a lot of challengies for someone not familiar with
spyware removals ........ B-)

There always is the first time..

But now he is warned takes it carefully )

I hope so :-D

You also have some good threads within Aumha about this removal.

Never been at aumha's forum, but I will check them too if will be in need
of "external" assistance Thanks for the info

 

[plun]

Mikolaj wrote on 2005-06-29 :

I like that ;-) But it should look like "After serious thinking (what took
him far then a lot of time) Mikolaj wrote:" ;-)

Well, thats Mesnews making jokes randomly.............

http://www.mesnews.net/index-gb.php

There always is the first time..

Yup :')

I hope so :-D

Never been at aumha's forum, but I will check them too if will be in need of
"external" assistance Thanks for the info

Aumha is one "goldmine" for spywareremovals and also Merinj recommended
sites.

http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30&sid=9c9a4cc41714c6ccbfeff2c9fb61a908

http://www.aumha.org/

 

[Mikolaj]

Well, thats Mesnews making jokes randomly.............

http://www.mesnews.net/index-gb.php

I like them, make me smiling :-D

Aumha is one "goldmine" for spywareremovals and also Merinj recommended
sites.

http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30&sid=9c9a4cc41714c6ccbfeff2c9fb61a908

http://www.aumha.org/

Konwledge is the power :-D so thanks again. It shall be useful for me, too