Official Anti-Spyware Thread

[ZhengHe]

X-Cleaner is also an excellent spyware remover and cleaning tool, athough you do need to update it every 30 days or to obtain every advantage of new builds.

]Jv16 Power Tools is registry cleaning and optimization client, which can do much insofar as getting rid of registry entries that spyware leads behind. It Also can do much to get your system running more efficiently so that if you are infected you would know a bit sooner.

[Methious]

I just got done with a PC AVG antivirus/spyware, Geede.exe slipped right past both, and so did xpx? ( ? being a special character ) root kit. I been using Avg AV and Windows Defender so I checked my system32 directory and fortunately I'm clean. If you find Geede.exe or Geede.dll in system32 (and there are a bunch of other lettered names it uses) it's a bad one. Even in safe mode you can't delete the .dll, and after reboot the .exe is back. Edit Geede out of the registry and the machine hangs at "windows is loading" forever. AVG root kit did detect and try to remove it but to many files were infected.

Common names GEEBB.EXE,GEBYV.EXE,DDABY.EXE,SSTTU.EXE,PMKJH.EXE,AWTST.EXE,GEBCA.EXE,DDCYY.EXE,SSTTQ.EXE,DDAYX.EXE,AWVTR.EXE,GEEDE.EXE,MLLMJ.EXE,
MLJJI.EXE,MLLJG.EXE,MLJGF.EXE,AWTSS.EXE,VTURR.EXE,SSQPQ.EXE,SSQRQ.EXE,PMKJI.EXE,PMNNO.EXE,GEBYA.EXE,JKHFF.EXE,DDCCD.EXE,DDAYA.EXE,
VTURS.EXE,MLLMK.EXE,AWTQP.EXE,DDCCY.EXE,SSQPM.EXE.

Summary : Trojan.Downloader-ConHook.Process
Description : Conhook/Vundo-related downloader component

Here's the scary part, he got it from a 3dmark06 he downloaded from some game site. Thought I'd pass the info. By the time I got the machine he had over a hundred infections (he downloaded it yesterday), had to reload his rig.

[skier]

what was the site he got it from?

[ibleet]

The gamer site I use for all my downloads is Gamershell.com...never a problem.

[Methious]

He didn't remember what site he got it from, he had the same version I have but his was 23k larger. I suspect GEEDE and the rootkit came from the benchmark as the antivirus reported it as infected, why it failed to catch and clean it I don't know.

The other infections probably came from all the key generators he had, I'm surprised he didn't come in with an eye patch and a parrot on his shoulder. I could get the AVG to scan and find them, but every time it tried to clean any thing immediate reboot. He needed it done cheap so I gave up quickly and reloaded it. (By quickly I mean an hour) Darn shame seems like losing all that porn was like losing a long time pet to him. Every time I download I right click the file and click scan just to be safe, saved me more than once.

[Softix]

AVG Free is the most popular free solution available at no cost to home users and provides the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computer

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/0

[skier]

AVG Free is the most popular free solution available at no cost to home users and provides the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computer

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/us/frt/0

ummm, you dont happen to work for AVG do ya

[unfaithfulsfan]

We use these on a regular basis to remove spyware, malware, and viruses in general here at the shop:
SuperAntiSpyware www.superantispyware.com/
Dr Web Cureit www.freedrweb.com/cureit/

They both work great and both are free. SuperAntiSpyware is more thorough in safe mode

[Major_A]

Malewarebyes' Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

[nightblood]

I use Superantispyware and combofix to get rid of spyware infections on my client pcs.