How do you find a baddie in the directory?

[ufkacbln]

I thought this thread was going to be about looking for evil henchmen in the Yellow Pages... I'm very disappointed now, as my plans to take over the world have been scuppered as the hired help have let me down and I can't find replacements.

Are they under "E" for "Evil" or "H" for "Henchmen"

Of course you will also need to go to "S" for "Sycophant" as well.

 

[RSV_Ecosse]

Folks - I didn't see this get mentioned so I thought I would post in here.

Before attempting to get rid of malware with your chosen program, turn off System Restore and then reboot your PC into Safe Mode and run the scan from within there. Get your system into Safe Mode by holding or tapping the F8 key as soon as your PC is started during the POST ( Power on self test ) where the black screen with white text shows or your manufacturers logo. Then choose Start Windows in Safe Mode.

Running a scan in normal Windows mode will most certainly miss things that can only be found by your anti-malware app in Safe Mode. Reason being that in Normal Windows mode most of the nasties will be running in the background and as a result are impossible to remove. In Safe Mode however, Windows only loads up the bare minimum it requires to run at boot up so the nasties dont get a chance to run.

And if you don't turn off System Restore before scanning, some nasties can hide themselves in the C:system volume informationrestore. What happens then is you run your scan in normal mode and think you have got rid of everything your anti malware app finds. You delete all the nasties and restart your PC where upon they simply drop back into your system via the restore volume and your back to square one.

After you have ran your scan, found the nasties and deleted them, restart yer PC in Normal mode and remember to turn System Restore back on and create a new restore point.

 

[swee'pea99]

+1 for spybot search & destroy. It's the business. Having said which, my daughter's laptop managed to get itself trojan'd recently (something called softcop, that kept popping up windows saying 'You computer is horribly infected - come and give us money to fix it), and spybot and avast both failed to detect it. Only when I uninstalled avast and downloaded the latest AVG did I kill it off.

 

[classic33]

I thought this thread was going to be about looking for evil henchmen in the Yellow Pages... I'm very disappointed now, as my plans to take over the world have been scuppered as the hired help have let me down and I can't find replacements.

IF you wanted, you could always try
http://www.instanthitman.com/

 

[ASC1951]

IF you wanted, you could always try
http://www.instanthitman.com/

Should we even ask....?

 

[classic33]

Should we even ask....?

Ask what??

 

[Lone Rider]

Before attempting to get rid of malware with your chosen program, turn off System Restore and ...

Very interesting, I'm going to try this, but ... how do you turn off System Restore?

 

[rh100]

right click 'my computer', select properties, click the system restore tab, tick the 'turn off system restore' box, confirm the warning prompt, click ok, reboot

 

[RSV_Ecosse]

And for best results - remember to reboot and scan in Safe Mode as well, Lone rider, after switching off System Restore.

 

[yenrod]

You DO have anti-virus and firewall software installed, don't you?

(Mind you, having said that my daughter still manages to infect her laptop with all the protection I've put on it - as a real IT technician has said, you can have all the protection in the world but you just need to click on a dodgy link and you're infected...)

Thats true = if you click an '.exe' then your ZEROED ! - installs in the registry and the only total way to get rid it is to do a total re-instal !!!!!!

 

[RSV_Ecosse]

True, a reformat sounds like a "cop out" but in truth it is sometimes the easiest option. That said, if you know what you are doing, 99.9% of "nasties" can be reasonably easily removed from the Windows Registry using a tool like HijackThis :-

http://download.cnet.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10379544.html

......but only if you know what you are looking at in the HJT log. Don't try it if you aren't sure what to remove or not or you could end up screwing yer Registry up!!.

 

[totallyfixed]

Having installed SuperantiSpyware free edition and it worked perfectly I thought I would give my computer another complete scan.....as you do. When I click on the icon I get this message: "Windows cannot access the specified device path or files. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item"

What is that all about??? Grrrr I hate Windows, HELP!

 

[RSV_Ecosse]

Are you running Superantispyware in "Safe Mode"?.

 

[totallyfixed]

Not the first time I ran it obviously, but have tried to run it in safe mode with same result - I don't have permission. Surely once it is loaded on to the computer I should be able to access it whenever I please to change scheduled scans etc?

 

[RSV_Ecosse]

Yeah, you should be able to run it any time you want.

Obvious question - Have you tried uninstalling it and then reinstalling it again from the downloaded setup file?.