Liveson,
What happened to you is a pop-up window made to look like a system
message. The mistake was clicking the link in the pop-up window. That is
how you ended up this 'spyware' vendors site. This is also called social
engineering. Make the user think he needs to do something and trick them
into following your web-page and getting something out of them.
Good Luck
Hal
Hal McGee
Engineering Data Manager
Group Engineering - Process and Compliance
Seating Products Group
B/E Aerospace
Winston-Salem, NC
"Toby Bierly"
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There is no spyware blocker that can protect and/or fix everything,
especially considering there are new spyware methods of "attack"
devised all the time. I've had a client with spyware so nasty, I
had to reboot into safe mode, run some little tool, then reboot
normally, run another tool, and then finish up with a virus scan to
remove the rest. Way too much to explain in a short message here,
but I doubt any spyware remover could have handled it.
The best place I've found for help is
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/.
One of the best spyware tools is Hijack This, available from
www.download.com. It scans your registry and gives you a list of a
bunch of stuff (startup programs, browser hijacks, etc.) . Be
careful using it though, since most of the list will be legitimate
stuff. Only a few things (none on a clean machine) will need to be
deleted.
HTH,
Toby
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From: Liveson Tumbulu
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:16 AM
Subject: [AccessDevelopers] SPYWARE ON MY PC
Hi Friends
Thanks very much for helping me sort out various problems
including non-access related ones. Incidentally I've come with
another one that has really hit me unexpectedly this afternoon. I
was surfing the net when all of a sudden I saw a message on my
desktop in very big letters saying my pc is infected and an icon
appeared on my taskbar with the same message. I immediately
launched my big brother Microsoft AntiSpyware (I'm using Beta1
which is expiring in about two months time) which reported that it
had found 5 infections and were later removed. Surprisingly the
big-lettered message on the desktop remains intact and it has
completely taken over my desktop. When I try to follow the URL on
the desktop I'm taken to
www.teslaplus.com/search.php?wmid=9&sub=0&q=Removers which
advertises other anti-spyware programs, PSGuard.com and
WorldAntiSpy.com.
This is the first time such a problem has ever occurred to me.
Could this mean Microsoft AntiSpyware program is of no use? I
think what is installed on my pc without my consent is a spyware .
How can I remove this? Can anyone please come to my rescue? Time
and again a message comes on my taskbar saying my pc is infected.
I'm quite annoyed by this.
Thanks in advance
Liveson
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