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  1. #1
    Xanth Guest

    please help

    Greetings all,
    I have a new icon in my lower right corner that is blinking, it is a icon of
    a shield that goes from a red X to a blue ?. It pops open a balloon above it
    a says:
    System Alert, click on the balloon to download a spyware software. I do it
    opens a IE window but goes no where. I have run Spybot S&D 1.5.1.15 with
    2/27 defs. It cleaned up alot but not this problem. I also have McAfee alert
    my of a Trojan and removed it for me.
    I tried to look in startup and figure it out but I could not figure out what
    is was to uncheck it.
    Does anybody have a clue on what it is or how I get rid of it.

    Thanks for your help.

    Dave



  2. #2
    Ron Guest

    Re: please help

    On Mar 3, 7:03 am, "Xanth" <xa...@att.net> wrote:
    > Greetings all,
    > I have a new icon in my lower right corner that is blinking, it is a icon of
    > a shield that goes from a red X to a blue ?. It pops open a balloon above it
    > a says:
    > System Alert, click on the balloon to download a spyware software. I do it
    > opens a IE window but goes no where. I have run Spybot S&D 1.5.1.15 with
    > 2/27 defs. It cleaned up alot but not this problem. I also have McAfee alert
    > my of a Trojan and removed it for me.
    > I tried to look in startup and figure it out but I could not figure out what
    > is was to uncheck it.
    > Does anybody have a clue on what it is or how I get rid of it.
    >
    > Thanks for your help.
    >
    > Dave


    Just reading over this (below) very quickly it looks like
    SUPERAntiSpyware will remove it.


    http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/in...520&forumid=20

    http://superantispyware.com/

  3. #3
    Xanth Guest

    Re: please help

    Ron,

    Thanks for your help,
    I dled the antispy program, it took 12 hours to do a complete scan.

    I did get rid of the blinking icon.
    Also do you know a good registry cleaner?

    --
    Dave Utell


    "Ron" <BigELilE05@msn.com> wrote in message
    news:493c9d62-a65d-42f7-9f47-77727b7106ff@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
    > On Mar 3, 7:03 am, "Xanth" <xa...@att.net> wrote:
    >> Greetings all,
    >> I have a new icon in my lower right corner that is blinking, it is a icon
    >> of
    >> a shield that goes from a red X to a blue ?. It pops open a balloon above
    >> it
    >> a says:
    >> System Alert, click on the balloon to download a spyware software. I do
    >> it
    >> opens a IE window but goes no where. I have run Spybot S&D 1.5.1.15 with
    >> 2/27 defs. It cleaned up alot but not this problem. I also have McAfee
    >> alert
    >> my of a Trojan and removed it for me.
    >> I tried to look in startup and figure it out but I could not figure out
    >> what
    >> is was to uncheck it.
    >> Does anybody have a clue on what it is or how I get rid of it.
    >>
    >> Thanks for your help.
    >>
    >> Dave

    >
    > Just reading over this (below) very quickly it looks like
    > SUPERAntiSpyware will remove it.
    >
    >
    > http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/in...520&forumid=20
    >
    > http://superantispyware.com/




  4. #4
    Ron Guest

    Re: please help

    On Mar 4, 7:38 am, "Xanth" <xa...@att.net> wrote:
    > Ron,
    >
    > Thanks for your help,
    > I dled the antispy program, it took 12 hours to do a complete scan.
    >
    > I did get rid of the blinking icon.
    > Also do you know a good registry cleaner?
    >
    > --
    > Dave Utell


    Here is a non-aggressive safe one
    http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

    Here is another one that's more aggressive.

    I use it, and I've never had any problems, but it IS a registry
    cleaner
    so use it at your own risk.

    http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_...ry_cleaner.htm

  5. #5
    Dustin Cook Guest

    Re: please help

    "Xanth" <xanth@att.net> wrote in
    news:ZNRyj.698182$kj1.241700@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

    > Greetings all,
    > I have a new icon in my lower right corner that is blinking, it is a
    > icon of a shield that goes from a red X to a blue ?. It pops open a
    > balloon above it a says:
    > System Alert, click on the balloon to download a spyware software. I
    > do it opens a IE window but goes no where. I have run Spybot S&D
    > 1.5.1.15 with 2/27 defs. It cleaned up alot but not this problem. I
    > also have McAfee alert my of a Trojan and removed it for me.
    > I tried to look in startup and figure it out but I could not figure
    > out what is was to uncheck it.
    > Does anybody have a clue on what it is or how I get rid of it.
    >
    > Thanks for your help.
    >
    > Dave
    >
    >
    >


    Sounds like a desktop hijacker... probably a vundo variant. If you want to
    download a copy of Hijackthis from trend micro, create a logfile and EMAIL
    it to me, I'd be happy to help you out. Please do NOT post the logfile
    here.


    --
    Regards,
    Dustin Cook - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk
    BugHunter v2.2e AntiMalware Removal Utility


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