4crests - 7:26 pm on Apr 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

I had a nasty one recently. It installed a couple different viruses, a dialer and a bunch of different Adware/Spyware. It was like a big combo of a bunch of junk that installed onto my computer all at once, like a VIRUS BOMB or some darn thing. Was horrible. Took a day and a half, but finally got rid of everything.

Go to START and RUN and type MSCONFIG, then into the STARTUP tab in MSCONFIG. Go through each item and do a google search on each item. You can find out if each item is supposed to be there or not, and if not, how to get rid of it. Also, do a CTRL-ALT-DELETE and click on the Processes tab, and do the same google search on each item. Also, go to CONTROL PANEL, ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS and remove anything that shouldn't be there.

Along the way, I found LAVASOFTS AD-AWARE program very useful. But some stuff was still not going away. Finally, I purchased NORTON INTERNET SECURITY suite, and it finished fixing the rest. I also at some point used HIJACKTHIS and CWSHREDDER.

Good Luck