Spyware removal and general tuneup...

[JIMINATOR]

Once you have come this far, you will want to reboot, and repeat,
looking at your processes to see what is running, or if you have missed
anything. Some of the virulent programs will manage to redo everything
you have undone, so just be aware of those.

If you are still having issues browsing, and want to give up, then you
can try an alternative to internet explorer, firefox. In general it does
much more than internet explorer, but is a little bit slower. It does not
however suffer from the activex control crap that plagues IE. (and those
pages will not work, but really, who uses the feature for legitimate
purposes)

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[JIMINATOR]

that's it. Please post your experiences, good or bad...

[merkwannabe]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Jul 6 2004, 03:32 PM
Probably a better program to use instead of taskmanager is process explorer
from http://www.sysinternals.com/ it gives more details about the processes
running and you can get a better idea of what is good or not.

I have over 30 processes running all the time.

Wish me luck, I already downloaded the file.

Awesome thread.

[dude]

Hi Jim,

Very nice and very helpful series of posts........
I would like to add my like experience with spyware pukes. I got something, somewhere from someone don't know and Spybot and Adaware could not detect or remove it. But with a lotta luck I found this page that removed my crap. This guy works at home and developes software specifically for a number of spyware types.
If anyone has problems with removing spyware after trying Spybot and Adaware, try this site out. It may just work........




http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html

[dude]

Oh by the way, you don't have to purchase the Bazooka software. Search the data base for your file and each file has removal instructions.

Worked for me...............

[FUS1ON]

This deserves to be pinned, Nice work Jim

[Die Hard]

Great post Jim, Thanks.

These are all my running processes. I'm not sure about all the svchost stuff plus some others. Any suggestions?

[JIMINATOR]

i think you are fine. the svchost stuff is windows, the rest of your
stuff looks like it is dsl, virus and firewall related, although if you
are using zonealarm, you will want to turn off the windows firewall.
(alg.exe i think)

[Die Hard]

Thanks Jim

[DiTomasso]

I use this website to check the programs that are running in taskmon.

tasklist

I use:

Spyhunter
Spybot search and destroy
Ad-aware

and after all these programs cleaned everything

Spy Sweeper found some more.

check it out