From: "Walt Bilofsky" <bilofsky@toolworks.com>

| Uniblue SpyEraser found a number of "threats" on my PC that were not
| detected by any other program I tried. Is this a cause for concern?

| I downloaded and ran the free (scan only) SpyEraser from
| http://www.liutilities.com/products/spyeraser/ . It found a lot of
| problems, and suggested that the product be purchased in order to
| clean them up.

| Among the threats it found were Screenspy, Mainpean Dialer, and
| AdultLinks QABar. I scanned my system with Norton Anti-Virus 2006,
| Spybot 1.3, and Ad-Aware SE Personal, and none of them found any of
| these (or anything else worth worrying about). The Symantec web site
| lists files and registry keys for these threats, none of which were
| present on my PC.

| SpyEraser also listed threats called NX Client, Viewpoint Media
| Toolbar, TinTel dialer, and VX2. Symantec doesn't list any of these
| as threats.

| So - what's going on here?

P.S.:: It wasn't so easy to uninstall SpyEraser, either. And when I
| got the uninstall to run without errors, it left the program files on
| the hard drive anyway.

Symantec is not a good non-viral anti malware detector. Ad-aware SE and SpyBot S&D are.
However, you need to remove SpyBot S&D v1.4 and replace it with v1.4, then update it.

I haven't heard of SpyEraser and it isn't on the Rogue list on Spyware Warrior. The
installer also scans clean at Virus Total. However, it may be a new Rogue. One that
repoerts malware that isn't there and one that won't allow easy removal.

I suggest adding the following to Ad-aware and SpyBot
SuperAntiSpyware -- http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...freevspro.html

then perform the following...

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *




--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm