Hi fellas,

Well, it seems to be all gone. I downloaded and reinstalled the latest version of Windows Media Player, and after that CWShredder was finally, FINALLY able to destroy the Smartsearch...

Hi Crunchie,

I followed your instructions, but instead of avemspw.exe coming up in the HiJackThis scan, the file seemed to have renamed itself to aaamona.exe? Is that possible? Anyway, I got rid...

Hi Crunchie,

Actually, since I posted that first log I've run all kind of spyware removal tools and the log's changed quite a bit. I still have the same problem with Windows Media Player,...

I should have posted this earlier, but CWShredder identified the variant of the virus as "CWS.Smartsearch.2", but still wasn't able to destroy it. Hope that helps.

Okay,

I got the mini removal tool to work, and it reported that I didn't have CWS.SmartKiller on my system. Then I ran CWShredder again, and it closed itself at the same spot, just like before.
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Well, I downloaded it from all four sites listed on MajorGeeks.com, and in every case when I tried to extract it, it came up as corrupted or invalid!

Now what?

Well, it appears I have a CWS trojan on my system (like I even know what that means...). I've run AdAware and Spybot, and then when I run CWShredder it autocloses when it gets to a certain point. I...

Thanks, DMR. Here's my latest log. Whaddya think?

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 3:24:39 PM, on 6/4/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00...

Hi DMR,

Thanks, I downloaded and ran Spybot and CWShredder, ran my Adaware and here's the final Hijackthis log.




I had read them, but the reason I posted my own log was that the Hijackthis...

Hi there, here's my hijackthis log:

Thanks in advance!

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 10:20:09 PM, on 5/26/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet...