SPYWARE PROBLEMS

[Guest]

I PICKED UP A SPYWARE PROBLEM THIS MORNING THROUGH THE
INTERNET, HAVE SPENT THE DAY TRYING TO GET MY SYSTEM BACK UP AND RUNNING AT
THE CORRECT LEVEL. DOWNLOADED ANTISPYWARE FROM BOTH MICROSOFT AND SPYDOCTOR
AND BOTH NOW COFIRM MY SYSTEM IS CLEAN. THE PROBLEM IS THAT AS A SYSTEM
ALERT KEEPS POPPING UP IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER AND THROWS ME TO THE
SPYLOCKED WEBSITE, SO THE SYSTEM IS OBVIOUSLY NOT RIGHT AND B THE
PEROFRMANCE OF MY COMPUTER IS REDUCED CONSIDERABLE

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "md" <[email protected]>

| I PICKED UP A SPYWARE PROBLEM THIS MORNING THROUGH THE
| INTERNET, HAVE SPENT THE DAY TRYING TO GET MY SYSTEM BACK UP AND RUNNING AT
| THE CORRECT LEVEL. DOWNLOADED ANTISPYWARE FROM BOTH MICROSOFT AND SPYDOCTOR
| AND BOTH NOW COFIRM MY SYSTEM IS CLEAN. THE PROBLEM IS THAT AS A SYSTEM
| ALERT KEEPS POPPING UP IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER AND THROWS ME TO THE
| SPYLOCKED WEBSITE, SO THE SYSTEM IS OBVIOUSLY NOT RIGHT AND B THE
| PEROFRMANCE OF MY COMPUTER IS REDUCED CONSIDERABLE


Please don 't shout. Posting in allcaps is, rude, hard to read and is considered shouting.


Two part reply..

Perform Part 1 then perform Part 2.

It is suggested that you execute each tool in Normal Mode then in Safe Mode.



Part 1
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Use noahdfear's SmitFraud, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, et. al., removal tool -- SmitRem.exe
http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/click counter/click.php?id=1

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic43659.html


Part 2
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S!ri's SmitfraudFix
http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/SmitfraudFix_En.php



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[John John]

Looks like you have the dreaded "Caps Lock" virus. As if that isn't bad
enough you probably have a Spy Falcon variant on your pc:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...NyoA?p=spy+falcon&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt

Get a hold of HijackThis: http://www.tomcoyote.org/hijackthis/ and post
the log to one of the recommended forums and someone will help you get
rid of the pest. Do not post HijackThis logs here! Post to the
recommended forums only!

John

 

[Guest]

David

Sorry about the shouting, new to newsgroups.

Those programs you suggested got rid of that virus. Thanks for that. Should
have logged on earlier. Would have saved some euro, purchased two antivirus
programs yesterday.

Laptop still seems to be running very slowly. Anytime I open a program i.e
word or excel the proceesor seems to be at full belt. Any thoughts on this.
Only started doing this since i got the virus yesterday morning

Cheers

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "md" <[email protected]>

| David
|
| Sorry about the shouting, new to newsgroups.
|
| Those programs you suggested got rid of that virus. Thanks for that. Should
| have logged on earlier. Would have saved some euro, purchased two antivirus
| programs yesterday.
|
| Laptop still seems to be running very slowly. Anytime I open a program i.e
| word or excel the proceesor seems to be at full belt. Any thoughts on this.
| Only started doing this since i got the virus yesterday morning
|
| Cheers
|


Who said you had a virus ?
You didn't. You had non-viral malware.

For non-viral malware...

Please download, install and update the following software...

* Ad-aware SE v1.06
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://www.lavasoft.de/ms/index.htm

* SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4
http://security.kolla.de/
http://www.safer-networking.org/microsoft.en.html

* SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html

After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe Mode.


For viral malware...

* Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


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