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Grrr@malware

i guess i forgot to apply the patch for the major windows exploit a while back to the htpc

i haven't touched it in a while and i just sat down to watch a movie and it had a hundred and something ie windows open and some kind of anti spyware bullshit freaking out and saying i was infected...i'm trying to clean up the mess now

toolbars left and right, all the resources used up, akk

argh
 
Webroot spysweeper worked for me. It was so bad that I had to rebuild the tcp/ip stack with a winsock tool.

Good luck!!
 
Originally posted by: Gravity
Webroot spysweeper worked for me. It was so bad that I had to rebuild the tcp/ip stack with a winsock tool.

Good luck!!

thx, i'm gonna need it

over 1000 items found with ad-aware
spybot isn't done yet

i guess i'll have a go at it with spysweeper next

i wonder how many virii i'm gonna find?

and i wonder why my server hasn't freaked out on it when it does it's weekly network virus check...
 
Pull out hard drive - scan and remove crap on a different computer.

/thread


That's really the easiest/quickest way...then do manual registry cleanup later.
 
Good luck bud, I was working on a client's laptop which did about the same thing.

still can't get that last bug out. :|
 
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
i guess i forgot to apply the patch for the major windows exploit a while back to the htpc

i haven't touched it in a while and i just sat down to watch a movie and it had a hundred and something ie windows open and some kind of anti spyware bullshit freaking out and saying i was infected...i'm trying to clean up the mess now

toolbars left and right, all the resources used up, akk

argh
use microsoft's antispyware.

get cwshredder (newest version)

get Hijackthis and go to http://hijackthis.de/index.php

install spywareblaster and IEspyad

and pray everything works out ok.
 
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