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Posted by Lukas Mariman on August 1, 2006, 5:03 pm
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> bettersurfing@usersnospam.org has brought this to us :
>> I usually run an Avast bootscan along with Ad-Aware and Spybot once a
>> week.
>> Today I did all three PLUS ran a Zone Alarm full system scan:
>>
>> Here's what Zone Alarm just quarantined and the other three missed:
>>
>> Win32.YOK.SuperSearch Trojan
>>
>> RegistryKey-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\Component Categories
>> \
>>
>> Backdoor.Win32.mIRC. based Trojan
>>
>> RegistryKey-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.cha
>>
>>
>> The last one is interesting since I haven't installed Mirc or any
>> internet chat programs. I'm wondering if it was installed by any
>> "spyware free" freeware or the akamaitechnologies.com IP address I kept
>> seeing in TCPview?
>>
>>
>> I also have the MVPS HOSTS file loaded and take alot of precautions (I
>> have all the Avast shields running + MS Defender).
>>
>> It may be time for the MULTI-AV scan.
>
> bettersurfing,
>
> I updated ad-aware today and it stops running after one or two seconds. I
> have webroot's spy sweeper running all the time, and it just now seems
> ad-aware no longer runs, without shutting down webroot's spy sweeper.
>
> I run ad-aware free, because it finds numerous things that webroot does
> not deem important or can't locate... On the other side, webroot's spy
> sweeper finds things that ad-aware does not locate... And it has tripped
> several Trojans during scans that AVG does not discover...
>
> This is the first time ad-aware and spy sweeper will not co-exist...
> Something has changed it appears...
>
> JR the postman
Check the recent threads on Spy Sweeper - if you "upgraded" to version 5.0
there might be some "issues"...
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