Re: Malware?
- From: "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:55:10 +0200
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:22:45 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
>From: "mavermik98" <mavermik98@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>| A full reinstall would indeed get rid of the problem.However this is a bit
>| like knocking down your house and rebuilding it when all you have is a broken
>| window.
Plus, you'd likely get it again. See...
http://cquirke.mvps.org/reinst.htm
Your PC may be considerably easier to (re-)infect after you "just"
wipe and rebuild, especially if your XP CD pre-dates SP2.
>| Why not try to uninstall then reinstall adaware. It may then work better
>removing Ad-aware and re-installing it will NOT make a difference unless it was an old
>version such as Ad-aware 6 and was replaced by Ad-aware SE v1.06 (soon to be replaced by
>Ad-aware 2006).
It might, if bad exits etc. had corrupted the original AdAware file
set. The general tone of these posts suggest this is quite a likely
scenario, given the detail-free escalation to "just wipe and rebuild".
>| There are other software ways if ad aware fails eg "spy bot search and
>| destroy" Do you have a virus checker if not then get one and do a full
>| scan (avg is free)
There are plenty of ways to detect and manage malware; methods that
are easy but rely on the malware allowing itself to be removed without
fighting back, to others that work but require effort and insight.
The more details you can provide, the better we can help you, as per
the GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) principle. Starting with: What was
the name of the malware that AdAware detected?
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