Just got back from visiting my sons house and noticed the only antivirus he had was avg and a couple of phony baloney spyware progs.
Ran his avg and it came up with 17 hits but could not get rid of most of them.
Remembered that I used to use trends online housecall av scan. So dl'ed and ran that application it came up with 55 virus/trojans.
We deleted them all.
downloaded microsoft antispyware and ran it we came up with 71 files that needed to be removed and I believe it was just over 400 hits in the registry.
He was getting constant popup advertising, browser hijacking, and obviously the system seemed a little slow.
we deleted all of those and rebooted that killed the browser hijacks, system was responding better but still some popups and now an application crying about how it could not work ( a spyware app of course).
so checked the usual places like hkey local/software/microsoft/windows/current version/run , run once ,& startup,
Found 5 more hiding in there and deleted the entries and then searched the whole comp looking for them found 2 exe in system 32 folder and deleted them.
ran several scans and reboots coming up with only 180 solutions adware once and deleted that. so hopefully we got most of them although I will not be suprised if one or two are still hiding.
so anyway out of all those detections , I must say I am quite impressed with how between the two of them they got about 95% of the job done. I think that is impressive.
Ran his avg and it came up with 17 hits but could not get rid of most of them.
Remembered that I used to use trends online housecall av scan. So dl'ed and ran that application it came up with 55 virus/trojans.
We deleted them all.
downloaded microsoft antispyware and ran it we came up with 71 files that needed to be removed and I believe it was just over 400 hits in the registry.
He was getting constant popup advertising, browser hijacking, and obviously the system seemed a little slow.
we deleted all of those and rebooted that killed the browser hijacks, system was responding better but still some popups and now an application crying about how it could not work ( a spyware app of course).
so checked the usual places like hkey local/software/microsoft/windows/current version/run , run once ,& startup,
Found 5 more hiding in there and deleted the entries and then searched the whole comp looking for them found 2 exe in system 32 folder and deleted them.
ran several scans and reboots coming up with only 180 solutions adware once and deleted that. so hopefully we got most of them although I will not be suprised if one or two are still hiding.
so anyway out of all those detections , I must say I am quite impressed with how between the two of them they got about 95% of the job done. I think that is impressive.
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