Spybot is good at protecting you from these things if you immunize, but it's never been great at fixing things once you get infected. But at least if you have a clue what you have you can do some web searches and hopefully remove the stuff manually. Or, don't waste a lot of time and just format and start over.
Consider using DropMyRights in the future. http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64213-order,1-page,1/description.html >> However, when I ran Spybot S&D it indicated that I had the malware >> Smitfraud-C.gp and an infected C:\Windows\svchost.exe and offered to delete >> these. After saying ok to delete, as soon as I ran Spybot again, it was back >> (or still there), so either Spybot didn't remove it, or something caused it >> to reappear.? What I decided to try -- and it did work -- was to do a system >> restore to a previous day's system checkpoint.? Yay!? Thanks for your >> suggestions. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
