Virus help needed for a mates PC

evulboo · 29 Jan 2006 at 20:16

Hey guys my mate has what i think is a virus but i cant seem to shift it and after your advice.

What i know of it so far is, on the taskbar it shows up as the windows update and changes to a red circle with a white X in it and keeps popping up a small window saying u have been affected blah blah blah please kick here to remove.

Now his AV software is Panda which finds naff all on a full scan, ive ran adware which cleaned 60 odd problems then i ran spybot s&d which found a further 10 problems

restated pc with spybot setup for a scan before windows starts and it found 3 more problems under 1 header SpyStrike removed them no problems and the problem is still there.

Now the Spystrike thing every time i uninstall it and delete the remaining folder it just reapeairs after a restart..... $%*&&!!! was being said at this point lol

Ive also ran Stinger which found naff all.

1 last thing is IE even tho its set for Google as a home page it comes up with something totally different.

please help guys

SiriusB · 29 Jan 2006 at 20:28

Try this online virus scan or download the NOD32 trial.

If you choose to use NOD32, I suggest using it in Safe Mode. The same goes with anything like Ad Aware or Spybot.

SiriusB

evulboo · 29 Jan 2006 at 20:28

nm guys ive done some research and got a answer http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-spywarestrike.html?gclid=CKq6rujv74ICFQwePgod8h3YqQ

Enfield · 29 Jan 2006 at 20:30

Doesn't sound like a virus, most likely spyware.

Download ewido, thats pretty thorough: http://download.ewido.net/ewido-setup.exe

Boot into safe mode, update all the definitions for all your spyware scanners and scan.

evulboo · 29 Jan 2006 at 20:30

SiriusB said:
Try this online virus scan or download the NOD32 trial.

If you choose to use NOD32, I suggest using it in Safe Mode. The same goes with anything like Ad Aware or Spybot.

SiriusB

cheers mate i'll tell him to try them if the link ive sent him doesn't work

SiriusB · 29 Jan 2006 at 20:37

Enfield said:
Doesn't sound like a virus, most likely spyware.

Download ewido, thats pretty thorough: http://download.ewido.net/ewido-setup.exe

Boot into safe mode, update all the definitions for all your spyware scanners and scan.

The reason I suggest anti-virus is because the OP said himself what he is using at the moment is pants and a lot of spyware comes loaded with viruses these days. A double-whamie of annoyance lol

SiriusB

leezer3 · 29 Jan 2006 at 20:38

Fish up and run SmitRem from here:
http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/
(Instructions on the page)
He's got a variant of SpyAxe, right little ..., and stuff like Spybot & Ad-Aware only currently get some of the variants. That should with any luck fix it.

-Leezer-