Help me remove THIS spyware!

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 20 Feb 2009 at 14:06

ok I have installed about 9 spyware applications but only this one detects this.

Now the trojans are stopping me from easily accessing my harddrive that they are on.

No other program I have tried finds this files and this one "spynomore" requires you to pay for the software before it'll take action.
Now I'm not paying for it as there is no way of telling for sure it'll get removed or if the program is that good compared to avast that I am using anyway.

Any words of wisdom?

analog · 20 Feb 2009 at 14:27

Maybe try removing the files manually using a linux live CD?

tedaC · 20 Feb 2009 at 14:31

I would try popping over to a spyware/virus specialist forum like http://www.techmonkeys.co.uk

XCougar · 20 Feb 2009 at 16:40

I believe you may be able to remove it manually with Knoppix, or was it UBCD. =S

Its been a while, its one of those 2, to boot into it and manually remove it.

Rob7865 · 20 Feb 2009 at 16:45

Download and install Malwarebyte.
Boot into Safemode and run a FULL system scan - this should clean off the little beasties

Rob

sushi · 20 Feb 2009 at 16:48

Rob7865 said:
Download and install Malwarebyte.
Boot into Safemode and run a FULL system scan - this should clean off the little beasties

Rob

This worked for me earlier in the week when clearing off that DNS Changer Trojan from a work PC.

XCougar · 20 Feb 2009 at 16:52

Rob7865 said:
Download and install Malwarebyte.
Boot into Safemode and run a FULL system scan - this should clean off the little beasties

Rob

This?

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

And is it free or paid cause it says purchase?

Spooter · 20 Feb 2009 at 17:02

The spyware files are probably locked as they are in use. Google UBCD4WIN download make iso file and burn to cd.

Boot off cd and run the all the spyware programs from that, because your not in windows the files can be removed.

XCougar · 20 Feb 2009 at 17:33

Spooter said:
The spyware files are probably locked as they are in use. Google UBCD4WIN download make iso file and burn to cd.

Boot off cd and run the all the spyware programs from that, because your not in windows the files can be removed.

Ah yes it was UBCD then, yes try that. =)

Matteysan · 20 Feb 2009 at 17:35

XCougar said:
This?

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

And is it free or paid cause it says purchase?

Yes, the paid for version is just real time scanning & scheduling. The free is perfectly fine for scanning when you want to

Ynot · 20 Feb 2009 at 17:44

Malwarebyte worked for my bro too

fallbayuk · 21 Feb 2009 at 00:57

hmm, try autoruns and see what you've got enabled at startup, also check to see if theres anything in the image hijack section within the program http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

smokeygav · 21 Feb 2009 at 01:15

A personal free favourite of mine is SUPERAntiSpyware. It's always worked for me.
http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html:)

It includes the Bootsafe app which will reboot your system in to safe mode with options to allow networking and the option of directory services repair.