please help

[Xanth]

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

[Ron]

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/

[Xanth]

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/

[Ron]

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

[Dustin Cook]

"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