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Just been told I have Spyware.

harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Anyone know more about this than me? HTF do I get rid of it? It keeps telling me to download 'Malware Bell' but I'm suspicious.
'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

- the great Sir Leo Harrison
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  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    Sorry to hear this.

    Right, you want to download Spybot Search & Destroy. Find it here: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

    Install it, run a full scan and see if it detects anything. If it does, it will remove the spyware. However, all traces of spyware are sometimes not removed; in that case you'd be best off reformatting your hard drive.

    But, anyways. Run the scan, see what happens, and then post back here with details.
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Murderers wrote:
    Sorry to hear this.

    Right, you want to download Spybot Search & Destroy. Find it here: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

    Install it, run a full scan and see if it detects anything. If it does, it will remove the spyware. However, all traces of spyware are sometimes not removed; in that case you'd be best off reformatting your hard drive.

    But, anyways. Run the scan, see what happens, and then post back here with details.

    Thanks, I'm downloading this now.

    I hear talk of 'reformatting hard drives'.. but I wouldn't know how to do it. :o
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Phantom PainPhantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Thanks, I'm downloading this now.

    I hear talk of 'reformatting hard drives'.. but I wouldn't know how to do it. :o

    Don't reformat unless it's your last option

    Spybot should help

    There is also adaware which may cost you now....it used to be free
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    after you get everything cleared up mark, download firefox and the adblock extension.....no ads, spyware at all.....:)
  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    Fuck all that downloading and running antispyware crap.
    All you need to do is restore to an earlier date. A date before you had the problem.

    It's that easy.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    Fuck all that downloading and running antispyware crap.
    All you need to do is restore to an earlier date. A date before you had the problem.

    It's that easy.

    How do you do the system restore thing again?
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    Fuck all that downloading and running antispyware crap.
    All you need to do is restore to an earlier date. A date before you had the problem.

    It's that easy.
    If you knew what you where talking about, you would know that in most cases, this doesn't work as the spyware enbeds itself in a place that restoring does not affect.
    cutback wrote:
    after you get everything cleared up mark, download firefox and the adblock extension.....no ads, spyware at all.....:)

    Yes, do this too.

    Also, do you have a firewall?
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  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    How do you do the system restore thing again?


    Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Restore

    Once you roll back install a decent spyware protection.
    Believe it or not, one of the best ones out there is for free from AOL.
    All you need is a screen name. I have it installed on all 4 of my computers and have never had a problem.
  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    Murderers wrote:
    If you knew what you where talking about, you would know that in most cases, this doesn't work as the spyware enbeds itself in a place that restoring does not affect.



    Yes, do this too.

    Also, do you have a firewall?


    I work on computers all day long. I've seen this Trojan running heavy for the past month. It works like a charm. Maybe you're the one that doesn't know what they're talking about. I do it for a fucking living.
  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    I work on computers all day long. I've seen this Trojan running heavy for the past month. It works like a charm. Maybe you're the one that doesn't know what they're talking about. I do it for a fucking living.
    System Restore is a very cool feature.

    But this is not what it was meant for.

    System Restore will allow you to restore your system's configuration to a previous state. In some cases that means that viruses or spyware will be "undone" as part of the process. But system restore does not remove infected files from your system, and you can quickly get infected again. It also does nothing to prevent new threats from arriving.

    Maybe it will work for this certain case, but he'll still be unprotected if he forget's about all this 'antispyware crap.'

    Your solution may get rid of it for a while, but then in a week it will come running back. My solution handles the long term and short term.
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  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    Murderers wrote:
    System Restore is a very cool feature.

    But this is not what it was meant for.

    System Restore will allow you to restore your system's configuration to a previous state. In some cases that means that viruses or spyware will be "undone" as part of the process. But system restore does not remove infected files from your system, and you can quickly get infected again. It also does nothing to prevent new threats from arriving.

    Maybe it will work for this certain case, but he'll still be unprotected if he forget's about all this 'antispyware crap.'

    Your solution may get rid of it for a while, but then in a week it will come running back. My solution handles the long term and short term.

    If you read what I said you would see that I told him to install antispyware AFTER he does the system restore. If he's looking for something FREE one of the best ones out there is McAffee Security Center that AOL gives you for free. There are better ones out there, but you have to pay for them.

    Thanks for paying attention.
  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    If you read what I said you would see that I told him to install antispyware AFTER he does the system restore. If he's looking for something FREE one of the best ones out there is McAffee Security Center that AOL gives you for free. There are better ones out there, but you have to pay for them.

    Thanks for paying attention.
    You said that after your orginal post; the one I originally quoted. Let's not hijack the thread anyway.

    I havn't used McAffee, but I've already recommended Spybot S&D; the software most websites will tell you too get. Plus it's free.

    You'll also want to get some sort of firewall (Zone Alarm) if you don't have one already. That is also free.
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  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    Murderers wrote:
    You said that after your orginal post; the one I originally quoted. Let's not hijack the thread anyway.

    I havn't used McAffee, but I've already recommended Spybot S&D; the software most websites will tell you too get. Plus it's free.

    You'll also want to get some sort of firewall (Zone Alarm) if you don't have one already. That is also free.

    I'm not hijacking the thread. I'm actually trying to help the guy.


    The McAffee Security Center, free from AOL, has Spyware, Anti-Virus and Firewall all built right in. Like I said, I have it on all 4 of my computers and have never had a problem. I have also installed it on other peoples computers with the same results. For free it does a good job.
  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    I'm not hijacking the thread. I'm actually trying to help the guy.


    The McAffee Security Center, free from AOL, has Spyware, Anti-Virus and Firewall all built right in. Like I said, I have it on all 4 of my computers and have never had a problem. I have also installed it on other peoples computers with the same results. For free it does a good job.
    We went off topic, which is why I said us. I was trying to help him in the first place, too.

    So TS, has Spybot returned any results?
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  • prljmngrlprljmngrl Posts: 320
    I have spyware doctor. Works great.

    Also, you can go into your registry and clean out any programs you don't want. Any programs installed in your computer show up here.

    Mycomputer/Add-remove/ take out what you don't want.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Murderers wrote:
    We went off topic, which is why I said us. I was trying to help him in the first place, too.

    So TS, has Spybot returned any results?

    I'm playing devil's advocate here, but unless you're *actually* talking about flying walruses and zebras guzzling Guiness and it's only my subconscious picking up talk of anti-viruses and spyware protection which *actually* isn't there, I believe you're both perfectly on topic.

    That was the longest sentence ever.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    prljmngrl wrote:
    Also, you can go into your registry and clean out any programs you don't want. Any programs installed in your computer show up here.

    I don't recommend going in to your registry unless you know what you're doing. It can screw up everything.
    prljmngrl wrote:
    Mycomputer/Add-remove/ take out what you don't want.

    That's not your registry. I hope you didn't think that's what it was called.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    I don't recommend going in to your registry unless you know what you're doing. It can screw up everything.



    That's not your registry. I hope you didn't think that's what it was called.

    Sorry but that last comment smacks of 'smart ass', whether she's right or not. :o
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I'm playing devil's advocate here, but unless you're *actually* talking about flying walruses and zebras guzzling Guiness and it's only my subconscious picking up talk of anti-viruses and spyware protection which *actually* isn't there, I believe you're both perfectly on topic.

    That was the longest sentence ever.
    Well, we should have been talking about helping you, but instead we ended up arguing about different clean up methods. Slightly off topic. ;)

    Hope you get everything cleaned up blud.
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  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Sorry but that last comment smacks of 'smart ass', whether she's right or not. :o


    It's just that people shouldn't say shit unless they know what they are talking about. If she thinks that going in to Add/Remove Programs is the same thing as editing your registry than that's a problem. If she was talking about 2 different things that's a different story.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Murderers wrote:
    Well, we should have been talking about helping you, but instead we ended up arguing about different clean up methods. Slightly off topic. ;)

    Yeah but I'm learning from the different opinions. :)

    How you get everything cleaned up blad.

    I've downloaded ZoneAlarm, the Firefox add-on thingie and I'm about to get something else... I'll let you know what it is when I find out... oh and I've done a system restore. Seemed to work like a beaut. Or is that bute? Or bewt, like 'newt'?
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    It's just that people shouldn't say shit unless they know what they are talking about. If she thinks that going in to Add/Remove Programs is the same thing as editing your registry than that's a problem. If she was talking about 2 different things that's a different story.
    It looks like she meant that in Spyware Doctor you go into My Computer-Add/Remove. That would probably be the registry.

    Because no normal computer has Add/Remove programs in the 'My Computer' directory.
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I've downloaded ZoneAlarm, the Firefox add-on thingie and I'm about to get something else... I'll let you know what it is when I find out... oh and I've done a system restore. Seemed to work like a beaut. Or is that bute? Or bewt, like 'newt'?
    Okay. But don't be suprised if the spyware comes running back in a day or two.

    And did you get Spybot? It's worth having trust me.





    I dislike computers more and more everyday, yet I still use them a lot. I need to break this habit.
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Murderers wrote:
    It looks like she meant that in Spyware Doctor you go into My Computer-Add/Remove. That would probably be the registry.

    Because no normal computer has Add/Remove programs in the 'My Computer' directory.


    Okay. But don't be suprised if the spyware comes running back in a day or two.

    And did you get Spybot? It's worth having trust me.


    Yes I did :)
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Yes I did :)
    Good. :)
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  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    pretty much whats been said already is the fixer, except the registry edit - that stuff ye don't wanna mess around with.

    Be careful with what yer doownloading, and what sites yer visiting. Some spyware is very tricky to get rid of. To some people, the spyware appears as an anti-virus and if yer not aware, can make the situation a lot worse.

    Let me know if ye still have a problem, I'll fix it for you :)
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  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    Murderers wrote:
    Because no normal computer has Add/Remove programs in the 'My Computer' directory.

    That's funny, because if I go to My Computer in Windows XP I see Add/Remove Programs in the upper left hand corner under System Tasks.

    I guess I don't have a "normal" computer.
  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    That's funny, because if I go to My Computer in Windows XP I see Add/Remove Programs in the upper left hand corner under System Tasks.

    I guess I don't have a "normal" computer.

    nobody has a normal computer - each person has theirs set up differently.

    Anyway, to settle the argument -

    start - control panel - add/remove programs. there may be a shortcut to this in other windows, such as the 'my computer' window.

    ...unless yer using vista or mac - then its a complete different kettle of fish!
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  • Murderers.Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    Biggest Wave wrote:
    That's funny, because if I go to My Computer in Windows XP I see Add/Remove Programs in the upper left hand corner under System Tasks.

    I guess I don't have a "normal" computer.
    Okay, I havn't ever seen the system tasks section in My Computer.

    But the point is, stop with the douchbagery and smart ass comments.
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  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    Murderers wrote:
    Okay, I havn't ever seen the system tasks section in My Computer.

    But the point is, stop with the douchbagery and smart ass comments.

    just cos I'm nitpicky...
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  • Biggest WaveBiggest Wave Posts: 686
    Murderers wrote:
    Okay, I havn't ever seen the system tasks section in My Computer.

    But the point is, stop with the douchbagery and smart ass comments.


    Oh, a little pissed off when you're wrong I see. Just like when you were wrong about the system restore thing. Why don't you stop sticking your nose in to things when it's apparent that you have no idea what you're talking about.
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