Thank you.
Dave
"Starman" <rock...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Update Windows. Use a firewall.
Use an Anti-Virus of your choice and keep it updated.
In Windows Explorer, set Folder Options to “show all files”.
Clean out all temp, cache, ect. files.
Download BeClean here:
http://boozet.xepher.net/beclean/
Download Sysclean from here:
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/sysclean.com
Read this:
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/readme.txt
Reboot into safe mode and run Sysclean, write down results, then reboot
normally.
If offending file is in “restore” read this:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001111912274039?OpenDocument&src=sec_doc_nam
Download AdAware from here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download506.html
Read the help files and then Update and run AdAware.
If you lose your Internet connection after running AdAware download
Winsock Fix here:
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257
Download Spybot Search+Destroy here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Read this:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
Update and run Spybot (enable all protection).
Download Spyware Blaster here: (enable all protection)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Run a couple of online scanners (pick a different one than your main AV):
BitDefender:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
eTrust:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
House Call:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
If the previous do not solve your problems:
Download Bazooka here:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/
Download SwatIt here:
http://swatit.org/
Download KL-Detector here
http://dewasoft.com/privacy/kldetector.htm
Download CWShredder here
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html
Download HijackThis here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
Install, run and save the log that is created. Don’t let it fix anything
yet!
You can find forums to post the log to have it analyzed here:
http://tomcoyote.org/hjt/
Download Stinger here:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
Download eScan here:
http://www.mwti.net/antivirus/free_utilities.asp
Rename the downloaded file escan.zip and extract (with a zip program) to
C:\Downloads, which you will have to create. Run the updater
(kavupd.exe) and then run eScan (mwavscan.exe).
…. End of standard canned reply.
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Virus Cleaning+Fixes: http://www.geocities.com/maxpro4u/TechPros
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In my control panel you can';t delete Search Assistant or Search Extender so
the hijacking keeps infecting my computer. Please, please help me, I'm at
the end of my tether. There has to be something to rid this infection. And
these infections are somehow preventing me from downloading updates for my
anti-virus, spyware doctor etc softwares.
Star
"Max M.Wachtel III" <maxp...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
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>In my control panel you can';t delete Search Assistant or Search Extender so
>the hijacking keeps infecting my computer. Please, please help me, I'm at
>the end of my tether. There has to be something to rid this infection. And
>these infections are somehow preventing me from downloading updates for my
>anti-virus, spyware doctor etc softwares.
Download these two utilities from sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml
Run the process explorer first and close down processes you don't want
or know about. You might find that as soon as you close a process down
it is started up again as the child of another process, If this
happens use the kill process tree option to zap the unwanted processes
at the same time.
After you have done the above (and it appears there's more than one),
run the autoruns program to see what is loading at system startup.
Uncheck the boxes of programs you don't want to load. That should do
it. You should be able to delete any residual files if you want to.
Don't do step 2 until step 1 has been satisfactorily completed. The
unwanted running programs will likely also be checking the system
startup entries in the registry and if you remove the registry
references before shutting down the unwanted processes they will most
likely be written straight back.
Jim.
Thanks for this, I will do this and report back with the results later.
Here's hoping this finally works! If it does, I owe you one big time.
Star
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