Comments on: How to uninstall combofix

By: Dan the Tech Man

Dan the Tech Man — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:50:08 +0000

ComboFix is definitely a great utility! It runs the gmer utility for finding rootkits and then takes that list and eradicates any found rootkits. Also a great rogue trojan remover. Anyone infected with the “Windows XP Antivirus *year*” trojan varient can have the main pieces removed by this program. Two thumbs up plus more if I had them. Don’t forget to use Autoruns to remove calls to the files it deletes. Friendly tech reminder

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:40:14 +0000

Gpainter, ComboFix is an advanced anti-malware utility meant for use by professional computer technicians, which you do not appear to be. ComboFix explicitly says that you should only download it from one of two approved sites, if you are seeing it “all over the internet”, then chances are, you didn’t get it from one of the approved sites and it may infact be malware that you are running.

By: AlaricD

AlaricD — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:31:20 +0000

ComboFix has been an absolute lifesaver! I and several of my friends use it quite a bit, and after seeing what it does I understand why computer illiterates are scared of it or break their systems with it.

Uninstalling it when you’re done with it is a snap– so long as you understand simple things like “hierarchical file structures” and such.

By: Gpainter

Gpainter — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:34:12 +0000

Combofix has been nothing but problematic. Before learning about combofix, I had an event of redirecting, hyjacking etc, then low and behold, combofix was all over the internet. SO i downloaded it. The one GOOD thing I can say about it, is it removed some malware that other progs could not see.

This combofix program is found 7 times as malware by other AV/ AT programs. Highly problematic to uninstall, Seems that you NEVER get to read anything about this prog, of the warnings to use it ONLY under trained supervision, untill you have ALREADY ran this “utility”.

Just my thoughts, If the program was legitamate, or top shelf, someone would be selling it instead of posting it free ALL OVER the “web”, but this is not the case.

I really wish I had the programmer by the balls, for this one. It is INTENTIONALLY I feel difficult to eradicate.

I wish I could post a screenshot, of combofixes activity on my system. It has identified itself as a computer within my file hiearchy, and then from that point sees itself as system root, showing my entire system within it. I encountered a trojan once that ran the same way, although I am not saying combofix IS a trojan. Im saying its very problematic.

By: haru

haru — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:57:38 +0000

ok then, thank u for answering

By: Patrik

Patrik — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:53:56 +0000

haru,
no.

By: haru

haru — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:56:17 +0000

If i only run the file download while they ask me to save it, do i need to unistall it too?

By: Patrik

Patrik — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:48:04 +0000

Laura, you can`t remove combofix`s shorcut ? Windows shows an error ?

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:43:19 +0000

hey ive done the whole uninstall thing and it came up saying it has unistalled yet im still stuck with a shortcut on my desktop and connot remove it?
any suggestions?

By: E-TARD

E-TARD — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:25:08 +0000

Thank You soo much for that info

I Fing hate this Tool & will never use it agan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!