After trawling through numerous websites with free scans (but no free surefire way of getting rid of psguard) I think the only way I can fix my poor broken old pc is to ask the experts for help...so here goes - have completed a hijackthis scan saved a copy of the log...can someone please help direct me as to what to do next? I gather there may be more than one process to go through and I am no pro, but can follow clear instructions, just not sure where to start, hopefully someone out there can understand the logfile and help me?....any assistance will be greatly appreciated... Bee

Still having problems here - have read all the advice given by everyone on this site with same sort of infection incl. installing Adaware personal SE and Spybot, both of which say they have deleted PSGuard and smit etc but when I reboot, there is PSGuard again...spent all of today on this (not my idea of a relaxing Sunday!) and, as my father got this PC for me 2nd hand at a computer fair and as he was a complete expert in computer programming (he was a senior research officer at the RMCS) I know he would be able to suggest something that works! Unfortunately he passed away a month ago and now his not-so-pc-savvy daughter is tearing her hair out...PLEASE help...anyone?!!

Go ahead and post a Hijack Thos log. Then download SmitRem.exe and save the file to your desktop. Double click on the file to extract it to it's own folder on the desktop. Next boot into Safe Mode Then open the smitRem folder, then double click the RunThis.bat file to start the tool. Follow the prompts on screen. Wait for the tool to complete and disk cleanup to finish. Reboot and go to Panda Activescan and run their online scanner.

manual psguard removal instructions can be found here: psguard removal