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Spybot Virus Issue

Need help to remove spybot virus. Any suggestion froma anyone upthere?
Thanks, I greatly appreciate it

javierjan
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"Spybot" is the general name given to the family of a certain type of worm, but it has many variants and the removal procedures differ between those.

What anti-virus program are you using? Are you trying to say that the program can't clean the infection? If so, what information does the A-V program give you about the infection?


1. If it's true that your anti-virus program can't take care of the infection, try a few of these free online anti-virus scanners:

http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus.html
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp?cid=9914
http://www.pandasoftware.com/active...n_principal.htm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php


2. If none of the above utilities can get rid of the problem, please do the following:

Download the (free) HijackThis utility:

http://www.stevewolfonline.com/Downloads/DMR/Spyware%20Tools/HJT/HijackThis.exe

Once downloaded, follow these instructions to install and run the program:

Create a folder outside of any Temp/Temporary folders for HJT and move it there now. A folder such such as C:\HijackThis or C:\Spyware Tools\HijackThis will do.

Run HijackThis, but do not have HJT fix anything yet; only have it scan your system! Once the scan is complete, the "Scan" button will turn into an option to "Save log...". Save the log in the folder you created for HiajckThis, open the log in Windows Notepad, and cut-n-paste the entire contents of the log here.

The log contents will tell us a lot about what "nasties" have crept into your system, and once we analyse the log we can tell you what to do from there.

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