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System Alert: Popups

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Name: Wootage
Date: December 18, 2005 at 21:31:11 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 512 ram
Comment:

Your computer is infected with spyware pop-ups advertisements (OHPE ver 4.12_23)
click the icon to learn more on what you can do about pop-up windows and other unwanted software.

Please tell me what i can do to remove this alert or spyware from my computer



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Response Number 1
Name: Ray Peate
Date: December 19, 2005 at 01:04:39 Pacific
Reply:

Turn off "Messenger" - or have you done so already??

Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services, scroll down to Messenger, RIGHT click on it, Properties, change Start up Type to Disable, click Apply, click OK.

Post back if you've done this already!


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Response Number 2
Name: jabuck
Date: December 19, 2005 at 06:53:44 Pacific
Reply:

Download Ewido Security Suite then set it up this way Ewido Setup Instructions but don't run it yet.

Download http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/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.
Do not run it yet, we'll run it in safe mode.

Next reboot into Safe Mode

open the smitRem folder, then double click the RunThis.bat file to start the tool. Follow the prompts on screen. Your desktop and icons will disappear and then reappear again this is normal.
Wait for the tool to complete and Disk Cleanup to finish this may take a while; please be patient.

Run Ewido when the scan has completed, Ewido will create a report.txt file. Click the "Save Report" button on the bottom of the screen and save the log to your desktop in case you need it later.

Please reboot into mormal mode post a HijackThis log and the log from the smitRem tool which will be located at C:\smitfiles.txt. and the Ewido log.

You can download Hijack This at this link http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ then place it into a folder of it's on, such as C:\HJT, so that back up copies can be made and not clutter your desktop or other folders and the backup copies of deleted items can be easily located if needed.

Once saved double click HijackThis.exe, and press "Scan". When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log" button.
Press that, save the log, Ctrl-A to Select All, and copy its contents into the text editor at this forum.

Do not fix anything yet unless you know what you are doing. This is a powerful tool that can crash the computer if used improperly.


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Response Number 3
Name: ugnius
Date: December 21, 2005 at 02:56:16 Pacific
Reply:

ir seems thats spyaxe or winhound infection.
here are removal instructions for spyaxe
and here are - for winhound


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