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730801 2008-12-18 22:10:00 Hi peeps, Got a friends pc today and its loaded with spyware and malware, such as AV 2008 n Spyguard 2008, I have managed to clean a few of them through Smitfraudfix but I am still not able to run spybot or malwarebytes anti-malware. I have installed spybot but when I click on the icon, the hour glass just spins and nothing happens. As also with malwarebytes, I can not install it, the hour glass just spins and nothing happens. Also I have installed NOD32 anitvirus but it does not update, keeps giving me connection error message, so does Avast and AVG, none of them can update. I can surf the net with no problem. I just tried hijackthis but can not install that either and none of the spyware programs works under safe mode also.. any ideas? PC is running XP Pro with SP3.

Thanks
ronyville (10611)
730802 2008-12-18 22:15:00 Disable system restore, reboot, then use ccleaner to remove the temp files etc

You dont need 3 AV programs, get rid of two

See if trojan remover will fix things up after.. Install it update it then scan.

Then select all options under utilities
Speedy Gonzales (78)
730803 2008-12-18 22:20:00 Disable system restore, reboot, then use ccleaner to remove the temp files etc

You dont need 3 AV programs, get rid of two

See if trojan remover will fix things up after.. Install it update it then scan.

Then select all options under utilities

Hi Speedy, already used ccleaner and have removed the temp files, at the moment only got NOD32 running, tired the other two one after another just to see if it was the update site that was causing the problem but apparently not, will give trojan remover a try... thanks
ronyville (10611)
730804 2008-12-18 22:23:00 Take the drive out and put it into a machine that has up-to-date NOD32 and run a scan on it. CYaBro (73)
730805 2008-12-18 22:41:00 Thanks guys, Trogan Remover did the trick, NOD32 is updating now, will do a full scan once everything is all properly installed and updated. :clap ronyville (10611)
730806 2008-12-18 22:46:00 Cool :banana

Whatever that computer had, it probably added something to the hosts file as well. If you selected all options under utilities in TR, it would have wiped them
Speedy Gonzales (78)
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