Malware, Anti-spyware

[kastein]

Registry cleaners almost always cause more problems than they solve, they are not worth the pain and the marketing claims are ridiculous. You'd be better off buying a copy of norton ghost, doing a clean windows install, installing all apps and patches, then making a copy of the drive using ghost. Set up network backups and once every 6 months restore from the ghost image and backups.

I've seen many, many, many systems get all hosed up by registry cleaners. I guess the registry did get cleaned in the end, because we had to reinstall the OS to fix the damage

 

[RTicUL8]

Frank,


Since your computer is already infected then do the following:

Download rkill.exe to your desktop. Run the program twice (Takes about a minute).
Get the program here: http://www.technibble.com/rkill-repair-tool-of-the-week/
Do not reboot your PC after running this program (until you download and run malwarebytes)

Download malwarebytes from http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?tag=mncol
Let the program update and run a full scan of your computer. It can take several hours.

Go to http://www.pandasecurity.com/activescan/index/ and run a full scan (You need to be online to do this).
At the end of the scan it will prompt you to purchase the program to get rid of any infections that it found.
However, it will also give you the opportunity to save the scan results as a text file - this is what you want to do.
You will then need to install a program called killbox. http://killbox.net/
It will allow you to manually remove the listed infections.

If that doesn't work, then you'll probably have to use a pre-windows environment CD to clean the infection -
that's beyond the scope of what I can go over here, but PM me if it didn't work.

 

[ColoradoRaptor]

Registry cleaners almost always cause more problems than they solve, they are not worth the pain and the marketing claims are ridiculous. You'd be better off buying a copy of norton ghost, doing a clean windows install, installing all apps and patches, then making a copy of the drive using ghost. Set up network backups and once every 6 months restore from the ghost image and backups.

I've seen many, many, many systems get all hosed up by registry cleaners. I guess the registry did get cleaned in the end, because we had to reinstall the OS to fix the damage

Never had a problem with my registry and I clean it daily....... Most of my problems have been hardware not software. :dunno: