12-31-2004, 10:42 PM
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Spyware help
My Father inlaw's PC is infected with some bad spyware
any-find.com/// and searchportal.info/// I have tried to remove if from the registry but it still comes back. and the PC will not get on the www any more. It is able to ping an WWW IP but it will not ping a www by name so i think something is fishy with the DNS i Tried to manualy set the DNS but that still did not work. I have looked in the host files and cant find anything there either i have run Spybot and it would not fix the problme HELP please. Thank you, Grape |
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01-01-2005, 04:48 PM
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When you delete it in the registry, make sure System Restore is turned off, because most of that stuff is set to auto-reinstall once you restart the computer. Also, clear out the C:\Windows\Prefetch folder to get rid of anything that might try to start itself up.
Do Start > Run, msconfig, and under the Startup tab, remove anything not vitally necessary (such as antivirus software). In the Control Panel, go to Add/Remove Programs and get rid of anything that doesn't look right (except Windows XP Hotfixes and the like). If it's still causing problems, you can download HijackThis and post a HJ log to get us to see what's running that shouldn't. |
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01-01-2005, 09:09 PM
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thx i will try that sunday and see how it goes
thx, Grape |
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01-01-2005, 10:41 PM
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01-02-2005, 06:17 AM
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Cool Thank you, I will give that a try as well |
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01-03-2005, 11:05 AM
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Also... you may wanna start up in "Safe Mode" so that NOTHING pre-loads itself when you run your Spy checkers and Anti virus...
You'd be surprised by how devius some of this stuff is to avoid getting removed from your machine. BTW... in some cases you will have to manually delete the programs that are lauching these spyware... yes it is tedious, but in the end it makes you feel much better. 
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01-03-2005, 11:39 AM
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aka the keg killer
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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm http://nyquil-kid.dyndns.org/SpyBotG...e84447ff58abb6 http://nyquil-kid.dyndns.org/AdAware...eb98b12e6d2f1a On an XP machine, turn off System Restore (turn it back on and set a restore point once the machine is clean), dump the C:\Windows\Prefetch folder, run a Disk Cleanup, then boot into Safe Mode and run Spybot/AdAware (with the latest defs, of course...) That's how I usually start the "anti-0wnage" or spyware removal process. Last edited by mechmike0034 : 01-03-2005 at 11:42 AM. |
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01-03-2005, 07:20 PM
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01-03-2005, 09:46 PM
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DF yea i wish i had ghosted it if i ever have to re do the box i will forsure do that Thank you everyone |
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