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Spynuke Hell
Name: Kez Date: March 31, 2004 at 08:44:05 Pacific OS: WinXP Home
Comment:
My parents XP machine had developed dodgy popups I downloaded what I thought was Lavasoft's Adaware (from www.adaware.com) but it turned out to be SpyNuke. I realised it was dodgy after it started to download, so I cancelled it. (yeah, I know...)
Now whenever the PC's online the download appears and Task Manager only clears it momentarily. I then downloaded the real Adware and Spybot which identified and deleted Spynuke.
As soon as it's back online the download appears again (and now even more popups).
How can I get rid of this short of wiping the hard disk?
Name: efabes Date: March 31, 2004 at 09:52:24 Pacific
Reply:
First, use System Restore to go back a day before you downloaded spynuke. You say that you know, so I won't comment on spynuke, other than to say spynuke messes up ie.
Download Adaware and Spybot on another pc and burn them to a cd. Install and run them from safemode on the infected pc (after the system restore) and then restart the pc.
Update both programs and run them again. You can get both programs from the download page of wilders.org.
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Response Number 2
Name: efabes Date: March 31, 2004 at 09:56:28 Pacific
Reply:
Also, if the above does not work, there may be manual removal instructions. We can also try Hijack This.
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