11-26-2003, 04:59 PM | #1 |
Jack Burton
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Alright, I have Ad-aware, but it's just not picking up this spiteful bit of spyware-msbb.exe. As far as I can tell, it's hijacked my IE browser-any effort to log in to anything means I get redirected to it's homepage to search for...uh...casinos (the hell?) and there's always a thin blue tool bar at the top of my screen which I know I wouldn't have installed unless I was drunk, stoned and dead. I've run scans with Adaware, which won't pick it up, and spy-hunter, which picks it up, but won't delete it until I buy the bloody software. However, a source I found but have now lost confirms that this is definatly spyware, not a trojan or a virus. Adaware and Norton AV are both fully updated.
If anyone is wondering how I'm typing this, I've downloaded Mozilla and while it beats IE and is now my browser of choice, I'd still like to be able to use IE.
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11-26-2003, 06:02 PM | #2 |
Lord Ao
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I used this, it seemed to do the trick for me.
http://www.safer-networking.org/inde...&page=download And this to remove the blaster virus and others. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp |
11-26-2003, 06:07 PM | #3 |
Lord Ao
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You could also try Spybot
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11-26-2003, 06:22 PM | #4 |
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Or if you're feeling froggy, you can go into the registry and blast it that way.
****However....playing with the registry can be very DANGEROUS!!!******* [ 11-26-2003, 06:32 PM: Message edited by: AngelofDeath ]
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11-26-2003, 06:27 PM | #5 |
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This one worked good for me...and it gets rid of A LOT more then Spyware, my friend! www.pestpatrol.com (oh yeah, by the way. I got mine from the Imesh thing.)
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11-26-2003, 11:40 PM | #7 |
Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice
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Speaking of spyware, when my older sister and I both came home from college a few weeks ago, she showed me something on my computer to be careful about. If you run Windows XP, do this:
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11-27-2003, 05:36 AM | #8 |
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I can reccomend as others have, spybot. it seems aggresive with term like search and destroy but it works well.
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11-27-2003, 05:38 AM | #9 |
Dracolisk
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BTW have you gone to the microshaft site to download the patches for IE there are quite a few, some new.
Good luck.
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