Posted: 9/14/2008 11:15:05 AM EDT
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So I have this immensely irritating spyware virus. It's one of those that puts a notice in the taskbar saying "look at me, I'm a genuine antivirus program! My completely legit scan shows you have a virus that only I can remove, and only if you give me all your personal information!" Not usually a problem for me; I run a random anti-spyware program and it's gone. ....Except this one won't stay away. I can run the program and make the virus disappear, but as soon as I start using the internet again (wireless), it's back. Popping up bogus notices and screwing up whatever I happen to be doing. Somehow it's reinstalling itself and no antivirus/spyware program I've used so far will send it back to the hell it came from. So, Hive Mind... advice? -DakkaMan By the way... I had to re-select this window roughly 
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| good luck. I fought with one of these for two days before I finally discovered a small file that had mimicked the name of a legitimate file in my system folder. After deleting that file, it was finally cleaned. Google the name of the Spyware program you have "magically" installed and go from there. Keep picking at it. |
I think it calls itself "anti virus system" or something, but it's main gimmick is popping up a bubble that says "you have a security problem!"... every three seconds. I've been using spybot to stave it off and I've been looking through my files for anything remotely like the virus. With any luck I'll eventually stumble across it. ...Last time I go to the fair and leave my computer unguarded... |
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What OS are you using. If it's a late windows variant you need to disable "system restore" before cleaning the system. If you don't it will appear to clean the virus but system restore will put it back later. See this for more info: Disabling System Restore to Remove Viruses |