Help, I can't get rid of Spybots!

[Dis]

I should have used that for Xupiter. I was a moron to accidently download that. It came up when I was trying to get a chat room to work, I thought it was something I had to download to get the chatroom to work

I got rid of Xupiter the hard way. Full hard drive reformat.

[alva]

For some reason I have a hard time updating spybot, something with proxies or something.

/me awaits for Panag to post 2 links

[Dinner]

Arghhh! They're back! I'm still getting those stupid pop up ads, I run both Spybot & Ad-ware, they both say I have several parasites, they both say the computer is now clean, I reboot, and the Parasites are back again!!!


What the heck can I do to get rid of this thing? I don't want it reporting to some marketer about the websites I visit and I don't want it force feeding me ads. These bastards are worse then Spammers.

[Skanky Burns]

msconfig (start->run->msconfig)

That will at least let you know what your computer is loading every time it starts. Also check your start->programs->startup for links you don't want. It may well be reinstalling automatically from there.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Oerdin
There are passive spybots and then there are the ones that pop-up a bunch of crap ads. I had a half dozen different ones which I suspect all got installed when I stupidly downloaded a plug in from the Gator Corp.

I'll never trust those clowns again.

No, no, no, never trust anything from Gator.

[Dinner]

The startup folder had something called "download plus" in it which I promptly deleted (and emptied from the trash can).

I'll see if that helps at all.

[Skanky Burns]

That sounds very spyware-ish. Good move killing it.

[Dinner]

Two scans and two reboots latter the devil has yet to show his face again. I'm thinking "download plus" was the culprate.

[Hueij]

Two scans and two reboots latter the devil has yet to show his face again. I'm thinking "download plus" was the culprate.

But the stuff is still somewhere on your machine, hiding in the deep recesses of your hard drive... You better do a Google search on how to totally get rid of it.

[Panag]

Re: Help, I can't get rid of Spybots!

Originally posted by Oerdin
After following a link to an internet quizie I found that my copy of IE has picked up a couple of parasites. I downloaded Spybot 1.2 and it got rid of most of them but I still have four parasites which Spybot can't seem to remove from my machine. Can anyone recomend another program to remove these die-hard parasites?

hi ,

go to http://grc.com

get cyberscrub from www.cyberscrub.com

and get at least the free zonealarm at www.zonelabs.com ( the pro works better )

and finjan surfinguard , www.finjan.com to keep them out and to stop them from sending something , .....

just type in spyware+removal at yahoo or so , .....

have a nice day

[SlowwHand]

HELL yes. My damned brother. Surfing ****ing porn sites.
I'm sick of this.

Oh. Sorry, but I am.
Download plus, I bet.

[Willem]

Originally posted by alva
For some reason I have a hard time updating spybot, something with proxies or something.

* alva awaits for Panag to post 2 links

Well you were partially right, he provided 4.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Willem


Well you were partially right, he provided 4.

hi ,

huh you want more , ....?

the above ones are the easy to understand ones , there are some program's out on the net , but they are only for people with an IQ of 2500 or so , .....

actually try a combination of several programs after one and another , spybot and adware , .....

have a nice day

[SlowwHand]

panang, from your first reference;
I tested with Shields Up!
Cool. I'll do some more looking around. Thanks.


Attempting connection to your computer. . .
Shields UP! is now attempting to contact the Hidden Internet Server within your PC. It is likely that no one has told you that your own personal computer may now be functioning as an Internet Server with neither your knowledge nor your permission. And that it may be serving up all or many of your personal files for reading, writing, modification and even deletion by anyone, anywhere, on the Internet!
Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.
Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

[SlowwHand]

Port Check:

Stealth! There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a port (or even any computer) exists at this IP address!