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My computer has several tracking cookies that, apparently, came WITH the
reinstallation of my OS. they are atdmt, swizzor, and a couple others. It
seems that, whenever I scan with Spybot, and fix it, they slowly make there
way back onto my system in a few minutes... replacing themselves whenver I
delete them, whether I delete them manually or not. Now, I realize this is a
security issue, but I figured I'd post it here because I need to find out
where I would find these stupid buggers at their root. Something keeps
reinstalling them. I even went into the registry and searched their names and
deleted anything I found THERE. Using the search to look over he hard drive,
I couldnt find them... Google is no help, providing only sites that tell me I
should download SpyHunter to get rid of this specific virus (SpyHunter didnt
even pick up the stupid thing, so....)

Anybody have these things before? or know where I can begin to find their
roots?
 
(e-mail address removed) wrote:
| My computer has several tracking cookies that, apparently, came WITH
| the reinstallation of my OS. they are atdmt, swizzor, and a couple
| others. It seems that, whenever I scan with Spybot, and fix it, they
| slowly make there way back onto my system in a few minutes...
| replacing themselves whenver I delete them, whether I delete them
| manually or not. Now, I realize this is a security issue, but I
| figured I'd post it here because I need to find out where I would
| find these stupid buggers at their root. Something keeps reinstalling
| them. I even went into the registry and searched their names and
| deleted anything I found THERE. Using the search to look over he hard
| drive, I couldnt find them... Google is no help, providing only sites
| that tell me I should download SpyHunter to get rid of this specific
| virus (SpyHunter didnt even pick up the stupid thing, so....)
|
| Anybody have these things before? or know where I can begin to find
| their roots?

Tracking cookies, malware, and viruii cannot survive a clean install of the
OS. I can only conclude that you performed a repair install, in which they
all could (and probably would)survive.

See here for info on malware, and its' eradication.
:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Viruses_Malware

HTH,
 
are you disabling "system restore" before removal?; because they can be
copied there.
Good luck
 
My computer has several tracking cookies that, apparently, came WITH
the reinstallation of my OS. they are atdmt, swizzor, and a couple
others. It seems that, whenever I scan with Spybot, and fix it, they
slowly make there way back onto my system in a few minutes...
replacing themselves whenver I delete them, whether I delete them
manually or not. Now, I realize this is a security issue, but I
figured I'd post it here because I need to find out where I would
find these stupid buggers at their root. Something keeps reinstalling
them. I even went into the registry and searched their names and
deleted anything I found THERE. Using the search to look over he hard
drive, I couldnt find them... Google is no help, providing only sites
that tell me I should download SpyHunter to get rid of this specific
virus (SpyHunter didnt even pick up the stupid thing, so....)

Anybody have these things before? or know where I can begin to find
their roots?
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Did you try this procedure?

http://www.spywaredb.com/remove-trojandownloader-win32-swizzor/
 
Curt said:
Tracking cookies, malware, and viruii
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"Viruii"? I've seen several creative spellings of "viruses," but that's a
cannot survive a clean install
of the OS.
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That's generally true, but boot sector viruses are still around, although
they are much less common than they used to be.
 
Mani wrote:
| are you disabling "system restore" before removal?; because they can
| be copied there.
| Good luck
|
| "(e-mail address removed)" wrote:
|
|| My computer has several tracking cookies that, apparently, came WITH
|| the reinstallation of my OS. they are atdmt, swizzor, and a couple
|| others. It seems that, whenever I scan with Spybot, and fix it, they
|| slowly make there way back onto my system in a few minutes...
|| replacing themselves whenver I delete them, whether I delete them
|| manually or not. Now, I realize this is a security issue, but I
|| figured I'd post it here because I need to find out where I would
|| find these stupid buggers at their root. Something keeps
|| reinstalling them. I even went into the registry and searched their
|| names and deleted anything I found THERE. Using the search to look
|| over he hard drive, I couldnt find them... Google is no help,
|| providing only sites that tell me I should download SpyHunter to get
|| rid of this specific virus (SpyHunter didnt even pick up the stupid
|| thing, so....)
||
|| Anybody have these things before? or know where I can begin to find
|| their roots?

Yes, the malware *could* be lurking in the backups, but the OP should wait
to delete Restore Points until *after* the malware is gone. The reasoning
being that if something were to go wrong during the cleaning, better to have
an infected restore point, than no restore point at all.
 
My computer has several tracking cookies that, apparently, came WITH the
reinstallation of my OS. they are atdmt, swizzor, and a couple others. It
seems that, whenever I scan with Spybot, and fix it, they slowly make
there
way back onto my system in a few minutes... replacing themselves whenver I
delete them, whether I delete them manually or not. Now, I realize this is
a
security issue, but I figured I'd post it here because I need to find out
where I would find these stupid buggers at their root. Something keeps
reinstalling them. I even went into the registry and searched their names
and
deleted anything I found THERE. Using the search to look over he hard
drive,
I couldnt find them... Google is no help, providing only sites that tell
me I
should download SpyHunter to get rid of this specific virus (SpyHunter
didnt
even pick up the stupid thing, so....)

Anybody have these things before? or know where I can begin to find their
roots?
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Have you done any internet surfing after the time these cookies are removed
and their return? They are commonly installed during surfing. Tracking
cookies are not malicious, then don't cause operational problems on your
system. I think the concern over them is over hyped.

Malware Removal
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

THE PARASITE FIGHT
Finding, Removing & Protecting Yourself From Scumware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm

Richard Harper’s Guide to Cleaning Pests
http://rgharper.mvps.org/cleanit.htm
 
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
| Curt Christianson wrote:
|
|| Tracking cookies, malware, and viruii
|
|
| "Viruii"? I've seen several creative spellings of "viruses," but
| that's a new one to me. <g>
|
|
|| cannot survive a clean install
|| of the OS.
|
|
| That's generally true, but boot sector viruses are still around,
| although they are much less common than they used to be.
|
|
|| I can only conclude that you performed a repair install,
|| in which they all could (and probably would)survive.

Ken,

You caught me on two counts--first I didn't proofread my spelling of "a lot
of nasties", and I usually say "generally" regarding said nasties and clean
install, but I was in a hurry. Just can't sneak anything by you guys! <vbg>

Now I'm goona go owt and bye a spill chunker.
 
Curt said:
Ken,

You caught me on two counts
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Nah, "caught you" isn't the way to look at it. I just wanted to set the
record straight, for someone who might not know about boot sector viruses.

--first I didn't proofread my spelling of
"a lot of nasties", and I usually say "generally" regarding said
nasties and clean install, but I was in a hurry. Just can't sneak
anything by you guys! <vbg>
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None of us is perfect, and we *all* make mistakes and all have the same
problems.
 
Now, I realize this is a security issue, but I figured I'd post it here
because I need to find out where I would find these stupid buggers at
their root.
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Your system is compromised. You should not have that computer connected to
any network until you format and reinstall.

Use this page as your guide:

http://kb.iu.edu/data/anbp.html
In Windows, how do I safely rebuild my computer after a system-level
compromise?
 
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