Finally removed %#@#$ spyware from machine

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Gurck
Nope. Stop surfing bukkake pr0n.

Score it off the newsgroups much safer 😉

Ausm

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: jamautosound

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: jamautosound

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Sht, somehow it's still on my system, it just tried to redirect a window to: http://www.qwikylynx.com/?ou=h...e%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom%2F

WTF, also the word "spyware" is highlighted on the page in orange... at least the toolbar has been removed, but it's still trying to take over my system. Hurry up Adaware/Spybot, we need an update!

Heh. I spent a while at my buddy's house last night fighting that fuggin' program. :|

After I deleted the registry entries you mentioned, I did a search in the registry for "b2s" (no quotes), and deleted all the entries for it there. That seemed to work. He hasn't called me back yet today.

GL

I'll try that too, thanks man. I just found C:\WINNT\system32\winb2s32.dll, do I delete this?

Yup. Forgot about that one.

There were two others in the temp files as well, I can't recall at the moment what they were called. Sorry.

Thnx. How about a registry entry called "Apartment"? It came up on the b2s search.

 

[jamautosound]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Thnx. How about a registry entry called "Apartment"? It came up on the b2s search.

Don't recall that, sorry.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: SuperTool
Just use firefox. No worries, mon.

That's the common reply. That will take care of the IE and ActiveX holes, but what about WSH VBScript and Java? Spyware has taken advantage of holes in those as well.

IE suffers from them in addition to its own holes

Firefox exploits

that has already been adress 😛

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Adul

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: SuperTool
Just use firefox. No worries, mon.

That's the common reply. That will take care of the IE and ActiveX holes, but what about WSH VBScript and Java? Spyware has taken advantage of holes in those as well.

IE suffers from them in addition to its own holes

Firefox exploits

that has already been adress 😛

You missed the point. Most of IE's exploits have been addressed. But there will always be something new. 🙂

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
After running the latest versions of Adaware, SpySweeper, Spybot S&D and HijackThis, the stupid Begin2Search toolbar was still on my machine... and everytime I would lock my IE hosts file, it would lock up my browser because it was trying to add entries to it. Finally I found a site that knew which registry keys this fcking spyware had installed on my machine. Anyone else had problems with this biatch?

This thing made me lose 2 hours of productivity at work, but just glad to have internet access again.

And you were using Internet Explorer why, exactly?

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Cerb

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
After running the latest versions of Adaware, SpySweeper, Spybot S&D and HijackThis, the stupid Begin2Search toolbar was still on my machine... and everytime I would lock my IE hosts file, it would lock up my browser because it was trying to add entries to it. Finally I found a site that knew which registry keys this fcking spyware had installed on my machine. Anyone else had problems with this biatch?

This thing made me lose 2 hours of productivity at work, but just glad to have internet access again.

And you were using Internet Explorer why, exactly?

Same reason that we use Windows?

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Cerb

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
After running the latest versions of Adaware, SpySweeper, Spybot S&D and HijackThis, the stupid Begin2Search toolbar was still on my machine... and everytime I would lock my IE hosts file, it would lock up my browser because it was trying to add entries to it. Finally I found a site that knew which registry keys this fcking spyware had installed on my machine. Anyone else had problems with this biatch?

This thing made me lose 2 hours of productivity at work, but just glad to have internet access again.

And you were using Internet Explorer why, exactly?

Same reason that we use Windows?

90% of games and Foobar2000? How does that justify IE?
😛