Got me a virus or something

Well, I didn’t say WHAT they were doing on the motorcycle.

[quote=“sandman”]Well, I didn’t say WHAT they were doing on the motorcycle.[/quote]Riding ?

In a manner of speaking.
Anyway, the Microsoft antispyware that Irishstu suggested didn’t work and I still have the flashing thing in my taskbar.

avira.com/en/threats/ADSPY_W … tails.html

I hunted for a minute and found this.

Is this what you’re running into?

[quote=“thegoat”]http://www.avira.com/en/threats/ADSPY_WinAD_details.html

I hunted for a minute and found this.

Is this what you’re running into?[/quote]
No, it appears to be something called Spyaxe. I found this about it, but the “fixes” are just replies from anonymous people, I bet most are just further hacks and anyway, they’re much too complicated for me to attempt myself. Seems to have been just in the last few days, too.

tittypornforscots.comis not a great idea. Don’t click my link then.

I dare you not to.

[quote=“sandman”][quote=“thegoat”]http://www.avira.com/en/threats/ADSPY_WinAD_details.html

I hunted for a minute and found this.

Is this what you’re running into?[/quote]
No, it appears to be something called Spyaxe. I found this about it, but the “fixes” are just replies from anonymous people, I bet most are just further hacks and anyway, they’re much too complicated for me to attempt myself. Seems to have been just in the last few days, too.[/quote]

Hey Sandman, that site you linked to has a particularly easy way of ridding your computer of that spyware. It’s a pity it’s at work, or I would happily go through that for you.
I realise if you don’t know how to start in safe mode or play about with the registry then that will be above your head, and in fact I wouldn’t recomment you trying. And since that is the case, I think your best, if not only, option is to get your sys admin guy to either go through those steps (it will only take him a few minutes) or completely format your computer and reinstall Windows.

The guys that write this spyware really need to be punished.

One more thing. It is possible that Spybot or Adaware will be able to remove this in the future, once they figure out how to.

Well, I showed the sys admin guy and he didn’t rate it as much of a threat. He described it as more of a money scam – they give you spyware that invites you to pay them to remove it. Nice.
Anyway, he’s just going to completely reinstall the OS when I’m away on holiday, something he was going to do in any case. I guess I’m getting XP (whatever the hell that is).
Thanks for all your advice though.

You didn’t already have Windows XP? Oh well, time to upgrade, hehe. It’s only been out for about 4 years. :stuck_out_tongue:

Ha, found this about spyaxe,

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FireFox - SpyAxe

I was just browsing happily away, secure in the knowledge that FireFox is a much better browser than any other. It generally blocks pop-ups and so on, is more secure than any other, but

Erm… belgian pie, that’s the link that Sandman just gave us. :homer:

What link? Didn’t see a link because I was somewhere else, sorry … in fact I was using my brain … I was thinking :smiley:

Ok, I found the ‘link’ … but who writes ‘this’ is the … :s :blush:

[quote]OK, it seems the answer has come… I found it on some post, after digging thru google for a few hours… The spyaxe guys, Spware Axe’s creators say it was some farm out marketing genious’ idea and apologized, blah blah blah but here’s the link to get your pc cleaned, their programmers give you two files in a .zip just unzip them and run the first one, then a few seconds later run the second. reboot and you’ll be as happy as i was not to feel invaded any longer! I only scanned with McAffee Virus scan, both came up clean but they definetly worked, and then I went into windows/system32 and could finally delete that darned svchost.dll (not the other svchost they are good!) it was not being used so / right into the recycling bin!

Go to www.spyaxe.com/uninstall/uninstallers.zip
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