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Betheny
07-13-2004, 08:52 PM
So.

I'm trying to fix my friend's computer.

Last time I just reformatted the hard drive.

I can't kill all the spyware on this thing. Any suggestions? NAV04 and spybot S&D aren't working, and somehow more shit just keeps popping up...
Betheny
07-13-2004, 09:03 PM
aaah, fuck it.
Wezas
07-13-2004, 09:16 PM
AdAware, have it scan the entire drive.

If her browser goes to certain pages on startup or on search pages, try "Browser Hijack Blaster"
Soulpieced
07-13-2004, 09:19 PM
Screw AdAware, download
Skirmisher
07-13-2004, 10:09 PM
What is it?
Soulpieced
07-13-2004, 10:19 PM
It's called Spy Sweeper, far superior to any of the other spy/ad/hijack removal programs available.
Varsus
07-13-2004, 10:24 PM
This is the scan results with Ad-Aware I got off one of my clients computers today in office.

http://www.freewebs.com/varsus/Images/spyware.jpg

-Varsus
Betheny
07-14-2004, 06:07 PM
Well, I don't feel so bad, cause we brought the thing into work and the computer fellow couldn't even fix it. He did the same things I did.

I always use SpyBot -- I'm going to give the one you suggested a try, though, Soulpieced.

The program is buried, and deep... there wasn't any way I could find it. Sucks to be her... sucks worse to be her stepson, who fucked the computer up in the first place!
HarmNone
07-14-2004, 06:09 PM
Have you run HijackThis, Maimara? I've got to go to a meeting, but when I get home, I'll try to find the link to post the HijackThis logs to for answers. They're really helpful. :)

HarmNone
Betheny
07-14-2004, 06:12 PM
No, I haven't -- but I'll mention it to the computer guy at work.

In other news, has anyone heard news of this supposed nasty computer worm making the rounds? I got an alert about it today, I guess Windows has a patch out...?
Skirmisher
07-14-2004, 06:27 PM
I dunno about it specifically, but i updated both windows and virus defs just to be safe.:cold:
HarmNone
07-14-2004, 11:23 PM
Hijackthis is available at this site:

http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html

The guys on this forum will take a look at your output from Hijackthis and analyze it for you, if needed: :)

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/

Hope that helps!

HarmNone
Tsa`ah
07-15-2004, 06:21 AM
Originally posted by Varsus
This is the scan results with Ad-Aware I got off one of my clients computers today in office.

http://www.freewebs.com/varsus/Images/spyware.jpg

-Varsus

No adware there... just cookies.

None of them were processes or reg keys.

Most of the ad-ware removal programs work pretty well so long as you keep them updated.

I run rotate using spybot and lavasoft.