Spyware that won't delete

[Merrill Grogel]

I went on a golf course website from Thailand today and
immediately got hit with 17 spywares and probably a virus.
It appears that both Norton and Microsoft's Anti-Spy Ware
caught all (?) of them and apeared to erase them all.
However, I have one spyware that keeps reaccuring even
though I have "erased" it thru this product several times.
It has the words "hijack" and "calis" in the spyware. I
have searched my hard drive for files but can not find
them. Any suggestions ? It seems that all this product can
do is erase it only to have it reappear

 

[Bill Sanderson]

If Microsoft Antispyware identifies the problem and says that it can clean
it, but does not succeed, please try restarting in safe mode by pressing the
F8 key before the initial Windows screen appears. Then do full, deep scans
until one comes through clean. See whether that takes care of it.

If it does not, write back with the complete name of what is being detected.

 

[John]

The spyware progrmas you were infected with cache themselves in your
temporary files and temporary internet files. You need to clean those temp
locations completely to stop these from coming back. I have read in here
that some folks are getting good results from a double scan while in safe
mode but I would cleanout those temps anyway.

JohnF.

 

[Ron Kinner]

Bill,

It's not just the Temp files that they hide in. Found one
the other day where it was pretending to be a driver. Had
its own INF file and everything.

Found another one where it had hijacked the .log
extension. Did you ever see a .log in a Process list?

Ron

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Interesting--I'm glad I haven't run into anything quite so tricky!

 

[Matt]

Merill,
Hey bud sorry about the spyware problems...but like us all
i have had my fair share of them and I have had to delete
many of them by hand. when u run the microsoft or norton
antivirus programs and it comes up with the threat it
should also show you where that file is located. alot of
the time the nasty little boogers are in your system32
folder. best way to get rid of em is to goto folder
options and change ur view permissions to show hidden
files. then located the folder that the file was in> then
arrange the files by name or type however you wish. find
the file and terminate the little sucker... alot of the
time there is a process associated with the files...so you
will have to ctrl + Alt + Del the screen find the
corresponding process kill it then hurry and get rid of
that file...this should fix your problem...sorry there
really isn't a more simple way to do this...but it seems
this is the only way that works.

Matt