Re: Report: bad news

The instructions I had were printed from the website. Step 9 says to press
2 to start Trend, step 10 says to observe the window, step 11 says to click
exit, step 12 says to press 4 for Kaspersky.

Do all of these have to be done in order? Also, would it be beneficial,
when in safe mode with restore turned off, to run Spysweeper?

The first sweep, with Sophos, locked up on a file that I know is useless.
I'll find and delete it, and try this out again.

I've got the impression that the file(s) I'm looking for have no telltale
signs of being vicious. There's some instruction somewhere in the registry
that tells windows to put this link on the bottom corner, and who knows --
the program itself may have been caught and deleted. But the only way to
find out might be to click to install, and if still there it could make a
mess of things.


--
Gary E. Tayman/Tayman Electrical
Sound Solutions For Classic Cars
http://www.taymanelectrical.com



"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:B%V2g.1256$yI1.1048@xxxxxxxxxxx
From: "Gary Tayman" <gtayman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| The McAfee was not in the instructions that I printed out. I was
curious as
| to why it's in there, but not to use it. Actually I have McAfee
installed
| on my computer.
|
| No, I haven't made a dos disk. That's something else I'll try.
|
| As for Puper, I'd be happy to do something with it if I could find it.
I
| tried search and it comes up empty.
|
| What I've done so far -- the dealer I bought my computer from, takes all
of
| the old files, programs and all, and puts them in a folder called old_c.
| I've has this computer for over a year now (does that qualify as
antique?)
| and I've noticed the old_c folder takes up plenty of time when running
| spyware stuff over and over and over, so I just deleted it.
|
| I'm also wondering if Spysweeper may do more in safe mode. I'll try
again
| when I have several hours to kill.
|

Gary:

Re-read those insttructions...
"The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and
Reboot the PC."

Chances are you have the retail version of McAfee VirusScan which does NOT
include the
McAfee Command Line Scanner (CLS). That is what the Multi AV Scanning
Tool provides. The
CLS can be more effective then the GUI and it has a Win32 and DOS
version. Thus the DOS
version can be used from a DOS Boot Disk. Please read the included
included PDF Help File.

As for finding the file it is most likely marked as a Hidden & System file
and you have to
make sure to search for Hidden & System files and have Explorer show
Hidden & System files.

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




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