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Posted by Uncle Vinnie on May 10, 2008, 6:04 pm
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thank you David...
I will get started and report back!!
David H. Lipman wrote:
>
> RE:: My daughter's PC, Visa Home premium, running CA AV:
>
>> She saw a popup and downloaded Antivirus 2008.
>> This thing is torture.. I ran CA Anti-spyware repeatedly- it removes
>> it, and it keeps coming back.
>
>> I Googled and removed a few registry references/startup programs
>> 'run',
>> etc - Antivirus, as well a few folders...
>
>> Still no luck.. the computer is crawling, freezing, and you can see
>> the screen refresh/redraw slowly....
>
>> If anyone could offer some advice and coaching, I'd greatly
>> appreciate it.. I am not sure if it is all deleted, nor am I sure if
>> I may have made a few registry mods I should not have... as follows:
>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Antivirus
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Antivirus
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>> "Antivirus"
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
>> "3P_UDEC" (not found on my pc)
>
>> Thank you very much...
>> --
>> B'rgds,
>
>> Vinnie
>
>
>
>
> For more non-viral malware...
>
> Please download, install and update the following software...
>
> * Ad-aware SE 2007
> http://www.lavasoft.de/
> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
> http://www.lavasoft.de/ms/index.htm
>
> * SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.5
> http://security.kolla.de/
> http://www.safer-networking.org/microsoft.en.html
>
> * SuperAntiSpyware
> http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
>
>
>
> For viral and trojan malware...
>
> * Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
> http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe
>
> http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
>
> English:
>
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/09/scan-your-computer-with-multiple-anti-virus-for-free/
>
> To use this utility, perform the following...
> Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder
> C:\AV-CLS }
> Choose; Unzip
> Choose; Close
>
> Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
> { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
>
> NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow
> WGET.EXE to go through your FireWall to allow it to download the
> needed AV vendor related files.
>
> C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in
> C:\AV-CLS}
> This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed
> in Normal Mode. This way all the components can be downloaded from
> each AV vendor's web site.
> The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and
> Reboot the PC.
>
> You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed
> files or you can download the files and perform a scan in Normal
> Mode. Once you have downloaded the files needed for each scanner you
> want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key during
> boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to
> run in Safe Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe
> Mode and Normal Mode.
>
> When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more
> comprehensive PDF help file.
>
> Additional Instructions:
> http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm
>
>
> * * * Please report back your results * * *
--
B'rgds,
Vinnie
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