Re: WINANTIVURUS AND WINFIXER SPYWARE/ADWARE

From: "Colins Dad" <Colins Dad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Hello,
|
| Websites for WINANTIVIRUS and WINFIXER keep appearing on my computer without
| me even being in Internet Exlorer. There are also pop-ups associated with
| these websites that show up as well. How do I get rid of these and how did
| they get on my PC. Looks like they just started to show up in the past week.
|
| If I do a system restore back to 11/1/05 (when I know this wasn't an issue),
| will it resolve this? I first tried to delete any references to these from my
| registry, but must not of found everything since WINFIXER still showed up.
|
| Thank you,
|
| Jason

The following will help you remove the WinFixer 2005, its associates and other
adware/spyware found.

Adware-Virtumundo Removal Tool v1.2
http://secured2k.home.comcast.net/tools/VirtumundoBeGone.exe
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=57049

Please download, install and update the following software...

Ad-aware SE v1.06
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4
http://security.kolla.de/

After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe Mode.

I also suggest downloading, installing and updating BHODemon for any Browser Helper Objects
that may be on the PC.

BHODemon
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


.

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