I hope someone can give me a pointer to a definitive way to remove adware from this computer. I’m computer savvy but this has me stumped. I installed Spybot, I bought “Spysweeper” by webroot and ran that. I even installed SpywareBlaster which is supposed to block activeX installations and a bunch of other things. I bought McAfee antivirus and ran that as well. These applications all find something during each run through, for example, Spysweeper finds something if I run it twice in a row, makes me believe it removes the offensive item, but when I run it again, the malware is there again! (in this case, something called “ClientMan”, but there are others)
I restart my computer and all this stuff is back worse than ever. What’s more, I keep getting “just in time debugger” messages - and they usually coincide with new popup windows.
The most irritating thing about this whole thing, is that I installed mozilla firefox as my browser, but I still get popup windows in internet explorer even if I never touch it. How is that possible?
I notice some unfamiliar programs in my msconfig startup list, and I tried disabling everything, but here they are back on again when I reboot. How do I completely remove a program from the msconfig startup list and also from “services”? I figure that might help. Then again it might not.
I went to CEXX and another famous site (forgot the name) and tried their procedures. That didn’t help either. I need some systematic advice. Why can’t I get rid of this stuff?
If your running XP , turn off system restore and then do your scans for malware. Delete them ,then reboot. By having the system restore turned on , when its infected ,your just re-infecting yourself everytime you boot.
Once your system is clean , then re engage the system restore.