My wife's computer has it bad. Really bad. I'm stuck now trying to unravel this POS software. Any help would be appreciated. (BTW, I'm a computer professional, so I know my way around the registry and such well.)
My wife's computer has it bad. Really bad. I'm stuck now trying to unravel this POS software. Any help would be appreciated. (BTW, I'm a computer professional, so I know my way around the registry and such well.)
I got nailed with that one on one of PC's. It is a challenge to get rid of. I never got hit with one like that before. I was impressed of how clever the idiot that created it was. Check all the start up location in the registry. I had to rename the EXE's and DLL's that were pointed to in the registry as the files were open and could not be deleted. There was some scheduled explore task registry entry that I thought was clever. Also there is a BHO registry entry that will get you. I learned a few things and I have been around this stuff for too many years.
I want the SOB who created this thing dead. Really, really dead. Slowly, agonizingly, painfully dead. A gory lingering sort of "prepare for hell" kind of death. The kind of thing that would make the author wish he were merely having his intestines pulled out of his nostrils an inch every hour with a vise grips.
The damned thing is a variant. The registry keys are changed, the program names are changed - and the damned things keep moving! It's blocking all applications that MIGHT get it - anything that can edit the hosts file (so it can pop up a lot of annoying porn sites), regedit, the task manager, installations - it's managed to block it all. And I thought I had it a whole bunch of times - only to discover that I missed one location and it respawned like a plague from hell. It is a well-executed piece of software, even if it is nasty.
This thing is evil and nasty and I want the author dead. Wait - did I say that already? Too bad - I really really want the author dead.
When in doubt I call in a nuclear strike, aka backup your data and settings, reformat the drive, and reinstall.
I liken the windows OS to a trailer park, it eventually gets so bad that your only solution is to burn it to the ground and start over.
I reinstall my OS about every 2 months, I also use [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] antivirus, its free and its the only one that I trust.
Also I sincerely hope that you are not using Norton or McAfee.
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No. We don't do windows in the control center. Not going to say more - NASA is a huge target for malware, hackers, and other such crap. Now the office environment - that's another story. But then again, the office computers aren't controlling billions of $$ worth of spacecraft...
Besides - I didn't think there was any such thing as a "windows professional"...
I had an earlier version. Ran spyterminator and spybot several times and got rid of it. (Both Freeware) I had a window pop up from The WSJ web site for this, apparently their server was infected.
Yeah that thing sucks. Go to Computerhope.com and they have a bunch of downloads to remove it. But its not easy! You have to download the antimalwarebytes program but you have to rename it cause the software knows what your doing. Spooky like AI.....
When in doubt I call in a nuclear strike, aka backup your data and settings, reformat the drive, and reinstall.
That's the only way I've had success with Windows XP. I boot off a Puppy Linux CD, mount the ntfs partition, blow away /windows and /Program Files, do a recursive delete of all .EXE, .COM, and .DLL files in what's left, then reboot from the Windows install disk and reinstall.
If the machine has ".cab files" in a "restore partition", the last few times I've repaired one, I've had to blow those away, too. because those had also been infected. The lowlife scumbags are getting smarter, and few machines seem to come with install CDs nowadays...
I generally take the opportunity to gloat to the hapless Windows user that I don't even own a copy of Windows...
Anyone dealt with Antivirus Pro 2010 malware
Linear Mode
