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How to remove softwarereferral/safewebnavigate hijackers and etlrlws toolbar

Myantispyware team March 28, 2008 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Tutorials - HowTo

Softwarereferral infection is a hijacker. If your computer was infected, you got many popups, Internet Explorer start page changed to softwarereferral.com, blinking stopsign with X in system tray, continual system alert popups. Ignore these fake popups and use the free instructions below for removing the softwarereferral/safewebnavigate hijackers and any associated malware from your computer.

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Found new rogue antispyware programs

Myantispyware team March 26, 2008 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

Sunbelt blog reported, found some new rogue antispyware programs. unigray.com spymaxx.com spywatche.com pcprivacytool.com thelastdefender.com thespybot.com spywareisolator.com pc-cleaner.com pc-antispyware.com MalwareWar.com DataHealer.com These can all be removed with the free trial version of CounterSpy.

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VirusHeat rogue antispyware – How To Remove

Myantispyware team February 25, 2008 1 Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tutorials - HowTo

VirusHeat is the fake anti-spyware, or rogue antispyware program. This program uses deceptive means for installation and purpose, may display fake scan results. This program usually installed itself onto your PC without your permission, through Zlob Trojan, Virus, fake audio/video codecs. Symptoms: Add/Remove Programs control panel entry: VirusHeat 3.9, VirusHeat 4.3 The hijackthis shows: O4

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How to remove Security toolbar 7.1

Myantispyware team December 9, 2007 Comment Closed Malware, Malware removal

Security Toolbar 7.1 is an adware program that also installs rogue security applications and display false alert on compromised computer. Security toolbar symptoms. False pop-up saying you that “Your computer is infected”. Browser been hijacked to other websites. Fake Windows Security Center popup messages.

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Trojan Vundo/Virtumonde turns a good file into a Trojan-Dropper

Myantispyware team December 9, 2007 No Comment Trojan

VirusList posted about new variant Trojan Vundo/Virtumonde. Vundo Authors are now using file infection so Virtumonde checks which files run at Windows startup and tries to infect them. Effectively this means that Virtumonde turns the original host file into a Trojan-Dropper. Dropper code is prepended to the original host file, with a copy of Virtumonde

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How to remove webcry.com hijacker

Myantispyware team December 8, 2007 3 Comments Browser Hijacking, Tutorials - HowTo

Symptom: When you do any kind of search, the search results come up like normal, however when you click on a link under the results the page goes blank and you keep getting re-directed to webcry.com Download HijackThis and save the file to your desktop. Double click on the file for install. Download CCleaner. Double

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Found first Christmas malware

Myantispyware team December 4, 2007 2 Comments Malware

F-Secure reported about malware runs using fake Christmas Cards as the lure. Example: A Dear friend has sent you an ecard from http://www.123Greetings.com Your ecard will be available with us the next 30 days. … To view your card,CLICK HERE … After run this ecard file x-mas.exe you got Zapchast mIRC-based backdoor. Read more: Merry

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Found some new fake codecs

Myantispyware team December 3, 2007 No Comment Spyware, Trojan

Sunbelt blog reported about some new fake codecs: codechq – codechq(dot)net Pushes both Windows and Mac TrojanDNSChanger. Sample binaries: Mac: codechq(dot)net/download/codechq(dot)dmg; Windows: codechq(dot)net/download/codechq(dot)exe. vplprocedure – vplprocedure(dot)com Sample binary vplprocedure(dot)com/download.php?id=10581 codectime – codectime(dot)com Pushes both Windows and Mac TrojanDNSChanger. Sample binaries: Mac: codectime(dot)com(dot)/download/codectime(dot)dmg; Windows: codectime(dot)com(dot)/download/codectime(dot)exe If you cannot remove fake codecs follow the steps in the

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How to remove shell.exe, spoolvs.exe trojan

Myantispyware team November 26, 2007 10 Comments Trojan, Tutorials - HowTo

Shell.exe and spoolvs.exe are components of trojan known as TROJ_RENOS.BX, Trojan.Win32.Qhost.abh , Trojan.Dropper, TR/Crypt.XDR.Gen, W32/Blocker-based!Maximus, Mal/TinyDL-T. Shell.exe and spoolvs.exe trojan symptoms: Start > Settings -> Control panel is missing Task bar icons informing you of an infection and taking you to legit looking security panel System pop ups and IE pop ups When you start

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How to remove savetheinformation.com and secirityonpage.com hijackers

Myantispyware team November 18, 2007 3 Comments Browser Hijacking, Malware removal, Tutorials - HowTo

Symptoms: IE pop-up windows, mostly to a site called www.savetheinformation.com but also to some other sites Yellow baloons from taskbar prompting to download antispyware software. Grey pop-ups, like error messages, also prompting to download antivirus/spyware software. 2 programs added to start menu program list: online security guide and live safety center when you open an

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