I have recently had the misfortune of picking up this virus. None of my spyware or antivirus programmes seem capable of removing it. Thank fully my firewall seems to be keeping it from doing any harm but i cant seem to remove it. I have tried a method decribed in a previous thread on this forum to no effect. Deleting my temporary items has also proven useless. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Not sure if what you're seeing is a virus or spyware. Have you disabled System Restore and logged in through Safe Mode, THEN tried deleting the file? Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

yeah i have tried that but to no effect. It seems to be a virus that is causing the download of spyware. My firewall goes nuts riughly every 5 mins or so blocking a browser hyjack attempt by it. It presents itself as win##.temp.exe with the ## representing a different combination of numbers and letters e.g win20d.temp.exe

What anti-virus program are you running? Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

try dowloading Crap Cleaner and ATF-Cleaner and run them on safe mode, see if that clears up your problem. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

thanks i will give it a try. I currentlt just use AVG free anti-virus. I als tried pandabut again to no effect.

Our resident guru "Jabuck" seems to be busy at the moment so i will get you prepared for when he comes on.Save all logs and do not post them until he asks for them. < Download Ewido then set it up this way Ewido Setup Instructions You will need this later in safe mode Please download ATF-Cleaner to your desktop from this link ATF-Cleaner You will need it later in safe mode Next follow these directions to reboot into Safe Mode Run Ewido and let it delete all that it finds. Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program. Under Main choose: Select All Click the Empty Selected button. Reboot into normal mode. Run this free online scan from Kaspersky Click Accept When the updates are finished downloading, click Next, Scan Settings Under Scan using the following antivirus database:, select extended Make sure the Scan Archives and Scan Mail Bases options are selected as well. Click OK Click My Computer and wait for the scan to finish Click Save Report As. Under Save as type:, select Text file. Save this log to your Desktop. Download Hijack This Here then place it into a folder of it's own, 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. Have the logs ready from Ewido,Kaspersky and HJT for when "Jabuck" comes on.