Re: anti-malware progs ineffective
From: john jardine (john_at_jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 01/30/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:32:43 -0000
<Rubicon> wrote in message news:41fdb5a4.2546132@news.netaccess.co.nz...
>
> John,
>
> I've only just gotten rid of it myself.
>
> Spybot was useless but didn't crash on my machine. Ad-Aware SE
> Personal combined with the trial version of Spy Sweeper along with the
> new AVG Free and all with the latest definitions finally managed to do
> it.
>
> The Spyware/Adware/Malware/Spam E-Mail just seems to be getting worse.
> I'm becomming more and more reluctant to go online because of the
> immense frustration at trying to get rid of them afterwards.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Andrew.
>
Pleased to know it's actually possible to get rid of the f***ing thing.
I've just downloaded those 3 software items and will give 'em a try. What
I'm ill at ease with, is paying for anti-virus software. The cynical part of
me is suspecting I'd then be actively propping up the whole nightmare.
Past day or so I've been using Firefox as the browser which has been no
problem. But the major scumware component is still present somewhere in
windows and I'm seeing the Internet-Explorer browser opening up over the top
of Firefox (or this outlook express) every 6 minutes or so and advertising
crap. Even has the cheek to rattle my a: floppy disc drive and then put up
an antivrus advert.
Even have my own f***ing bank advertising with coolWWW, so am having to
pursue with vigour and extreme predjudice, the bank's marketing people. Each
hour megabytes of scumware programmes are self installing all over the hard
disc, along with scum porn and ringtone icons littered everywhere. They'll
continously alter the 'host.TXT' file, the start up prog list, the active
running progs,the home page, the IE addons and numerous registry entries.
In addition to this, the scumware also enjoys auto-altering certain
"permissions" on IE (an oxymoron if ever I saw one) so I can't close it down
or get at the 'options tab etc. Have now to run another prog called
'permissions' to reset a number of IE check boxes before I can even start
removing the rubbish that's come in.
Even tried to remove IE itself http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html but
this prog is worthless.
I tried reinstalling windows, but no joy as it assumes existing files are
OK. There's only a couple of self supporting virus/trojan files at work but
windows is littered across 1000's of files so manually finding 'em is damned
near impossible. Can't even just delete all the windows files as any normal
software install will bung masses of unknown .exes, .dlls, junk, etc, in
among the windows stuff. Jesus H Christ, windows is a f***ing mess.
'Spybot', 'miniremoval', 'CWshredder', 'Hijackthis', 'Win patrolExplorer'
(and about 4 others!), have proved useless and I just hope that your
suggestions will work for me.
If not, then I'm looking to manually dismantle as much of Internet Explorer
as I can without unduly crippling windows (or Firefox).
10/10 for whoever wrote this POS. I just wish the major software companies
would make their products as reliable.
regards
john
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