Once again spyware clogs up my hard drive. Right.
I update my adaware. start running the scan. It looks like I'm very infected.
Suddenly an error thingie pops up, you know the one. A process has been stopped, save your work, the computer will restart in t minus...

Now i have to watch the computer restart without any way to finish the scan or removing the spyware.

What should i do? Is there any way to overide the shut down?
Has anyone else had a simmilar problem?

I apriciate any advice, thanks!

EDIT:
I forgot, im using windows XP.
I tried checking if the message itself was a process i could shut down but i couldent find anything.
BTW This happens every time I try to run the scan.

[ 08-28-2004, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: bjorn ]

I don`t know what to suggest. Have you tried Spybot?

will do, hang on a sec.

Also, make sure you're using Ad-Aware version 6, with the latest updates to the build.

To cancel a remote shutdown, or the shutdown box I think your seeing, open command, (Click start, run, and type "command" without the quotes), as soon as the shutdown box comes up, type "shutdown -a" (without the quotes") if this is what im thinking, that should terminate the shutdown sequence, and you should be able to finish your scan.

you could try an online virus scan as well. i know larry has a wee bit of antivirus and spyware he knows about.

Well, i ran spybot, found a few hundred problems. I removed them and voila! I could once again scan using adaware. I feel very refreshed, thanks everybody! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hivetyrant, I will definitely keep that in mind, could be very useful, Thanks.

- May spybot run on next startup?
- Why yes, yes it may.
:D

I`m glad that it works now. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Cool! Check through the forum's older posts, but there are about half a dozen things you should run regularly now, including:

1. Spybot
2. Ad Aware
3. HiJack This
4. Zone Alarm (or other firewall -- I know, Willow [img]smile.gif[/img] )
5. Panda or AVG antivirus (or others)
6. Mozilla Firefox (instead of Internet Explorer)

*edit* forgot to add..
7. Trend Micro's Housecall -- online virus scan, just to make sure that your scanner is also clean. www.trendmicro.com
*/edit*

Life shouldn't have to be so hard... but it is. Glad you're back on the straight and narrow, and if I were you, I'd run the first two at least once a week. I now run them daily.

[ 08-28-2004, 03:24 PM: Message edited by: Bungleau ]

While on topic I don`t have any AV program or firewall. So after installing Avast! and AntiVir (from Larry`s post) I found one virus. And of course I am using Mozilla. Also I was thinkhing on getting Thunderbird client. Any opinions?

[ 08-28-2004, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: Xen ]