I would also suggest trying Vipre from Sunbelt Software. My mother's PC got a Trojan that various anti-virus and anti-spyware programs claimed to have cleaned, but it would come right back. It turned out that the file the AV and AS programs were detecting and cleaning was being rewritten by the Trojan every time. Vipre revealed this readily. I was able to boot into safe mode and copy the subject file from another PC. Problem solved.
And, even though it does both AV and AS, its memory footprint is tiny. Finally, the licensing is extremely reasonable. Emmitt Dove Manager, Converting Applications Development Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [email protected] (203) 214-5683 m (203) 643-8022 o (203) 643-8086 f [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Minyo II Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:33 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: OT - no DOS box At 03:01 PM 4/22/2009, you wrote: This morning SpySweeper informed me that it had quarantined a JSRedir-O virus, but apparently not after it had done some damage. The only thing I noticed right away is that SpySweeper no longer would run. After talking to their very helpful tech support, got the links to cleanup and reinstall, now it seems fine. I am going to run a full scan as soon as I log off here. But one other thing has happened -- I have no DOS command box! Typing CMD in the run box makes my desktop icons flash off for a few seconds, then flash back on with no DOS box. Navigating to windows / system32 / cmd.exe also does the same thing. Anyone have a clue on how to "fix" it? Or am I resigned to never going to a DOS box again? Hello Karen, The same problem occurred to me recently. You may have also lost access to the registry editor. On my end, I also lost access to MS updates and was automatically redirected from certain Web pages. Some repair utility Web sites will also be blocked from displaying. I could not find that any named virus or Trojan claimed responsibility for the lose of these several computer resources, nor did several anti-virus, spyware, malware, etc. utilities find or fix this nasty issue; except one called ComboFix. You may be forced to go to another computer to even download it. It resolved all of the above issues on my PC. John
