Elitum Elitebar / SearchMiracle Elitebar Removal

[Gary Compton]

If anyone is having problems with this spyware
regenerating after being cleaned, try this. Start your
computer in safe mode. Turn off the system recovery by
right clicking on My Computer and finding the tab that
contains that option (the tab is called "System Restore"
for XP versions, not sure about other versions).

Run an up to date version of Microsoft's Antispyware Beta
3 times. It took two scans to clean the spyware; the
third run just verified that Elitebar was indeed gone.

After the first run, the program found a few files and
several registry entries asociated with Elitebar. The
problems were quarantined and then removed. After the
second run it found several files (20 or so) and only 2
registry entries. Again, I quarantined the problems and
then removed them. After the third run there was no sign
of Elitebar.

I hope this helps someone.

 

[AndyManchesta]

Thanks For the Info Garry ,

Its good to know MS Antispy is removing this and helpfull
for users to know that running the remover more than once
can help with elitebar.


Regards

AndyManc

 

[Steve Wechsler [MVP]]

Gary,

Thanks for posting this. However, disabling System Restore as the first
step has *** no bearing on the malware reinstalling itself ***
The ***ONLY*** way it can reinstall from System Restore is IF that
restore point is used in a restore procedure.

Leaving System Restore enabled leaves one at ***least*** able to restore
the OS if cleaning the system should render it unbootable.
It's better to have a leaky lifeboat than to scuttle it straight off.

The System Restore hierarchy can be reset AFTER cleaning the system by
toggling System Restore off and then on, and then creating a manual
CLEAN restore point, OR, by using Disk Cleanup to remove all but the
most recent restore points, and then creating a manual CLEAN restore point.

Steve Wechsler (akaMowGreen)
MS-MVP 2004-2005
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