Re: anti-malware progs ineffective

From: Rubicon (no email)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 02:10:51 GMT

John,

I'm glad it worked for you.

One thing to note is that on my old machine it took all three programs
to rid me of it. AVG got two "main?" .exe files while it took the
other two anti-spyware progs to clean up the rest.

Before I downloaded the very latest AVG definitions it'd miss coolWWW
and the anti-spyware looked like they'd gotten everything... but it'd
always promptly return.

Each systems a little different though.

Regards,

Andrew.

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:19:13 -0000, "john jardine"
<john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
>news:07hqv05bg7k37v64i3dme4n4gc1gbkcrq6@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:32:43 -0000, "john jardine"
>> <john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> ><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
>> >
>>
>> Knocking on wood... I'm very impressed with Mozilla Firefox. NO
>> adware since I switched from IE. And I don't need StopZilla or Cookie
>> Pal anymore.
>>
>> ...Jim Thompson
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>
>Same here Jim. I'm very pleased.
>Although I emptied the IE cache store every week, there were usually about
>50-100 'tracking cookies' to be found in it.
>
>Also, looks like 'Ad-Aware SE Personal' has managed to kill 'CoolWWW' !!!.
>It wasn't just-a-couple of files like I thought, but 39 separate CoolWWW
>*.DLLs files, 58 registry changes, plus 44 other *.exe and *.DLL scumwares
>belonging to 5 other sales outfits. Big problem was a counterfeit MStask.exe
>running as if normal. It took 3 locks ups and 2 crashes before Ad-Aware
>winkled them all out. All this grief is the result of my visiting a porn
>site two weeks ago. Let one in and they hold the door open for the rest.
>
>I'll give it a couple of days and hope I can thank Andrew for the recommend.
>regards
>john
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