I have a client who was struggling with it. I, too, suggested a restore since she doesn't have any files of merit on the thing, but she is trying to get rid of it in other ways. I ran spybot, the newest version of adaware, symantec's newest removal tool from the website and the Norton AV 2005 on her machine with no luck -- both in regular mode and safe mode. Like you, I found it reinstalling itself on every boot. There was file that was calling it that I was unable to delete either through the AV or manually. I was ready to attempt to excise the thing manually from a command prompt boot when I ran out of time.
I don't know if it is still troubling her or not. I've been tied up with a move and getting married the last week, and she hasn't gotten back to me. I'll post back if they found a fix for it. I think her son was going to remote in with his machine and try to delete the offending file from there. I have it written down somewhere (probably in an unpacked box). Sharol -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RichK Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 4:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: WinFixer - anyone manage to clean it up? Hi. Been running my laptop w/o AV or Firewall. Just dialup use, thought I was safe. Sometime during the last two weeks I noticed that it was doing something strange during boot, as if I installed something and doing Win Update. Then the WinFixer popup started showing up. Download current SpyBot, Ad-Aware and Semantec FixVundo. They all find it and "remove" but the booger re-installs Could not find anything in the Group archives. There are several things related to this popup/trojan and I read it can difficult to remove. Am about to thrash the Win98 and do a clean install. Any thoughts on this, or is re-install the best way to deal with. I hate to be beaten by some silly piece of code :-) Rich -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
