Re: WinFixer 2005



Darlene, Sherri, and David. Have you found the solution to getting rid of
the Winfixer 2005 problem that keeps hijacking the browser to the winfixer
site to download? Please post again, or send instructions to
trentX222@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, but remove the Xs.

Thanks

"Darlene" wrote:

> I just wanted to say thank you to David. I used your tool and my computer
> seems to be all better again. I had the same problem as everyone else on
> here. Even though David's tool took a long time, it was well worth it because
> it worked.
>
> Thank you.
>
> "David H. Lipman" wrote:
>
> > From: "Sherri" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > | Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this piece of crap? Every time I try
> > | to navigate to a web site it pops up wanting me to scan and download. My
> > | home page comes up OK, it is just when I try to google something or go to
> > | another site that it comes up. I am running Windows XP SP2 with all
> > | updates. I have firewall and anti-virus software. I have already ran
> > | Adware, Spybot, CWShredder, but still there. I turned off System Restore
> > | before I did the scans. Spybot found several things and fixed them all but
> > | one, the one that it couldn't fix was Sumom.A, it said it was in use.
> > | Thanks in advance for any help offered.
> > |
> >
> > Download WinFixerFix.exe from the URL --
> > http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/WinFixerFix.exe
> >
> >
> > Execute; WinFixerFix.exe { Note: You must accept the default of C:\McAfee }
> > Choose; Unzip
> > Choose; Close
> >
> > NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
> > FireWall to enable WGET.EXE to download the needed McAfee related files.
> >
> > Execute; c:\mcafee\clean.bat
> > { or Double-click on 'Clean Link' in c:\mcafee }
> >
> > A final report in HTML format called C:\mcafee\ScanReport.HTML will be generated. At the
> > end of the scan, it will be displayed in your browser (Opera, FireFox or Internet Explorer).
> > It is suggested that you move the report out of c:\mcafee before performing another scan.
> > It would be a good idea to scan in Safe Mode and in Normal Mode and save a copy of the HTML
> > report for each session.
> >
> > --
> > Dave
> > http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> > http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
> >
> >
> >
.



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