Trojans, & Spy-sheriff

[Shoogle]

I hope this is the right place for this.
I am running Win98, have AVG free home edition, Spy-bot which are run
regularly.
My problem is that for about 2 weeks I have had Spy-sheriff force itself
upon me! No matter what I do to get rid of it, it comes back and
re-installs itself. I have done 'Remove programs' and in Esplorer found
the directory and removed all of it but it keeps re-installing itself.
On reading a couple of sites I see that I'm not the only one that can't
get rid of this pest.
Has anyone come up with a solution (if you have been bugged with this one,
of course)?
More details on my system if you need 'em.
Thanks in advance. Ken J.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Shoogle" <[email protected]>

| I hope this is the right place for this.
| I am running Win98, have AVG free home edition, Spy-bot which are run
| regularly.
| My problem is that for about 2 weeks I have had Spy-sheriff force itself
| upon me! No matter what I do to get rid of it, it comes back and
| re-installs itself. I have done 'Remove programs' and in Esplorer found
| the directory and removed all of it but it keeps re-installing itself.
| On reading a couple of sites I see that I'm not the only one that can't
| get rid of this pest.
| Has anyone come up with a solution (if you have been bugged with this one,
| of course)?
| More details on my system if you need 'em.
| Thanks in advance. Ken J.

SpySherriff is a Rogue anti spyware application and should not be used.
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

If Spyware Warrior lists it as a Rogue, it should be avoided. There are very good and
capable anto spyware applications such as Ad-aware SE v1.06 and SpyBot Search and Destroy
v1.4.

As for the removeal of SpySherriff. Try booting into Safe Mode and closing as many running
applications as possible and then delete the folder that SpySheriff is installed in.

 

[Shoogle]

Dave,
Well, as far as this 'rogue' is concerned I didn't _choose_ it at all; it
came from somewhere on its' own. And, yes, I have gone through the
process of 'Safe Mode', removed any trace of Spy Sheriff I can find but
when I reboot it shows up again--gotta have some hidden, undetectable
file, that gets triggered. Some other goods folks have some fairly long
processes involving the Registry etc. but I am a little leary of playing
around there unless I am sure of what I am doing.
I do run Spybot regularly and use AVG and Norton for virus detection.
Thanks for your suggestion anyway. Ken