How would you turn off system restore? I've only run the programs in safemode...I've tried 3 tool/fixes now, avg, spybot, adware and a few other...it takes several hours to run them all and by the time I'm finished running them all I'm back to square one...

Just one other peice of info for the record - my java software was out of date and I've heard that it exploits that. I've since that time updated to be current.

How to turn off system restore http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405 Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.

also try this free online scan while restore is turned off http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php and remove all it finds What anti-virus are you using? Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.

I used AVG... I'll give the restore a try and the scan. Thanks for all your help!

I can't seem how to scan with the scanner at http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php it is telling me I need to update and then there is no trial...only buy.

Thanks for letting me know, I sent an email to the company and reported the problem. You may have to pass on that one till I get back to you....sorry. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.

ok it seems to be running now - will get back with update...seems to be catching reg entriews which makes me happy.

great....remove all it finds.....I'll be waiting for your reply Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.

A-sqaured free: http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software... TrojanHunter:http://www.misec.net/ -these are really imortant.

I THINK the system restore shutdown + the xscan worked. Haven't yet tried ascan but I tried trojan hunter a few days ago. I'm not 100% convinced yet...a few times in the past things looked good but then I found virtumondo in spybot again. I'll report back in a while but...so far everything that I run seems to come up clean. :) I'm very grateful for this help!

Thanks for posting back! Turn your system restore back on again.....Let's keep our fingers crossed and hopefully all is well. A-sqaured free is a long and tedious scan and trojan hunter....not too sure on that one....LOL. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.

Okay...things seem to be better but I found virtumonde once again in spybot just a few minutes ago. :( I'm starting to think it's impossible to get rid of it. I've tried about 12 different programs now. It seems that there are way less problems after running that xscan - at least it can be managed ..I guess I should be hesitant to do online banking and using credit cards until I completely get rid of the problem? Do you think it's safe?

did you try this removal? http://spyware-removal.thrcomputer.... Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.

What is your AV? Try this, download Avast free http://www.avast.com/eng/download-a... to your desktop. Disable the AV you are presently using, install Avast and let it do a bootscan on reboot. Move EVERYTHING it finds to the chest and when it is done. run your Spybot scan again and see if the problem still remains. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.

I downloaded a-squared & am doing the deep cleaning...the fast one found some things so I'm trying the deep one too - it is vvvvery slow like you said though. It might take all night. "did you try this removal? http://spyware-removal.thrcomputer.... I think I saw a manual remove similar to this...none of those entries were in my registry or windows. I use AVG antivirus. Will try the one you suggested too. In the past I've had spyware and virus and it has never been a real issue...maybe going into the registry and deleted a few things and running a few scans and presto...but for some reason this virtumonde is sooo difficut to get rid of! I read somewhere that it records keystrokes so I'm thinking it might not be a good idea to sign into places with my passwords. I'm not really sure how they use the info...

one of the newer vundo infections installs a rootkit. in regular mode download and run http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/ blacklight. there is more info on it at http://wiki.castlecops.com/Vundo_Ro... edit; (they say the atribune vundo fix will remove the rootkit. as of may 2007) you can also try http://www.grisoft.com/doc/download... http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us... hope you and XPuser4real get rid of it. that one is a bugger. (you'll also have to disable restore again, and when clean enable)

UPDATE: No more spyware!!! I'm not sure jut what did it but I followed all the advise on this thread and it is now gone. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP! A special thanks to XpUser4Real for sticking it out with me! :)

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It came back :( I guess I will have to reformat when I get some time.