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Win 7 antispyware 2012 >|

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Nebakanezzar

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got infected with win 7 antispyware 2012 and it is kicking my ass!! anyone know how to get rid of it? i tried malwarebytes, superantispyware and avast, and got no joy :|

i have seen some manual methods online, but i cant seem to find any of the files they say to delete...

thanx
 
try combofix

Those fake programs are usually one .exe file on the computer, on winxp it's usually under the \documents & settings\all users\application data\ folder sitting in a folder with a completely random name.

If you can get the task manager up, sometimes you can do that immediately on boot before the fake program loads, end tasks one by one until you end the fake program. Then run combofix.
 
hey cubby, thanx for advice. i am running windows 7, so i went \users\all users\application data...but when i try and open /application data, i get a message saying access denied...
 
@chris, i saw the page you linked while googleing for a remedy, but i am not familiar with the site so i was leery of downloading something possibly malicious and making my situation worse, lol

...but this site and download is/are legit?

thanx
 
That is one nasty Spyware, save yourself the trouble and just reinstall you computer.
While some of the solution you find on Google worked at one time for somebody, that particular Spyware mutates all the time.
 
I have an elderly neighbor whose Vista system was hit with this shit, and I managed to get her clear of it with Malwarebytes installed and run in Safe Mode. As I recall, it found seven infected files. Once rid of these, we rebooted, updated MWB and ran another scan, which turned up nothing. So far, so good.
 
There are versions of this that will not let you run rkill, or even open a browser. I've had one that would not even go into safe mode. Hade to take the HDD out and insert it in another system so I could find the stupid virus myself and delete it. Having a bootable 4GB flash drive with win xp installed would also come in handy for this sort of problem. But since I got 3 desktops it is no big deal just to pop the drive out.
 
http://majorgeeks.com/download6323.html?2011-12-05
Remove Fake Anti Virus, followed by malwarebytes. One of my older kids just
installed XP Security 2012 because they could not figure out how to renew the registration on Avast. You may have problems with Windows firewall after fixing things. I googled and found a fix but can't remember exactly where. Now I'm installing MSE on all the computers I fix.
 
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