Re: FN-FORUM: Syware removal again

date posted 21st August 2004 14:10

On Saturday 21 Aug 2004 10:39 am, Paul Cooper wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've got incredibly annoying Spyware on my machine. I used my usual
> combination of Adaware and Spybot a dew days ago but it didn't do the
> trick. I've just run Adaware again and it found 36 items. My homepage =
is
> hijacked and I get popups (to remove Spyware) all the time...it's pissi=
ng
> me off. Any recommendations?

Run HijackThis, post the log here, let the combined might of the Freelanc=
ers
identify the bad guy, and remove it.

I recently had to remove pop-up spyware from a machine which had installe=
d
itself with a random name. This makes it very difficult for the likes of=
=20
Adaware to identify it.

I'm now trying to get this particular piece of spyware removed at source.
I am making slow but steady progress with the ISP that provides the IP=20
address that hosts the "marketing" website. I don't think the spyware=20
solution lies in continuing the arms race between the spyware writers=20
and the anti-spyware vendors. A good start would be writing "no-malware"
terms into AUPs the way most of them now have "no spamming" clauses.