rrogge
2006-03-06, 09:51
Since a couple of weeks, a tool called SpywareStrike 2.5 is living on my computer. I ran a few times a Norton anti-virus scan without results. I also ran Spybot-S&D after downloading the latest updates. It detects SpywareStrike, but even after reboot with Spybot-S&D scan, SpywareStrike 2.5 is still there.
I posted a thread on the more global Spybot-S&D forum but as asked by tashi I now open a thread on the malware forum.
I sent a copy of the files I find in the /Program Files/SpywareStrike folder to MacSurf a few days ago, but didn't receive any response after that.
Who can help me to get rid off that :mad: damned :mad: SpywareStrike thing ? :confused:
Sorry but I'm not a computer nerd, so please dear helper, don't get to technical. :bigthumb:
Thanks at beforehand. :D
Regards,
rrogge
Below a list of the abnormal things that occur on our computer since SpywareStrike 2.5 made our computer his home :
The message that SpywareStrike keeps on showing down right my screen is :
Your computer is infected!
Dangerous infection was detected on you PC
The system will now download and installl most efficient
antimalware program to prevent data loss and your private
information theft.
Click here to protect your computer from the biggest malware
threats.
When closing the message it reappears a few seconds later.
There is a SpywareStrike directory in the Program Files directory.
Also in the All programs program list, SpywareStrike is present, even with an Uninstall option. When I start the uninstallation, a popup appears asking me the confirmation of the removal of SpywareStrike from the Program Files directory. When I confirm, I do not find SpywareStrike.exe anymore in the processes list of task manager but the infection message keeps on appearing.
After rebooting my computer, everything is back again : the message, the directory, SpywareStrike.exe
At each reboot, a (fake) scan by the SpywareStrike anti-spyware is executed. It terminates after a few seconds with a message indicating how much threats were found. That number of threats seems to increase slowly with the number of reboots.
From time to time, some popup advertisement for a casino or erotic site shows up on our screen. We can simply close it, but it shouldn't appear at all.
The startpages we defined for our internet explorer were removed or replaced by some page we do not want to see.
So that's all folks. Hope this helps you to find out how to remove this :mad: damned :mad: tool from my and others computer.
I posted a thread on the more global Spybot-S&D forum but as asked by tashi I now open a thread on the malware forum.
I sent a copy of the files I find in the /Program Files/SpywareStrike folder to MacSurf a few days ago, but didn't receive any response after that.
Who can help me to get rid off that :mad: damned :mad: SpywareStrike thing ? :confused:
Sorry but I'm not a computer nerd, so please dear helper, don't get to technical. :bigthumb:
Thanks at beforehand. :D
Regards,
rrogge
Below a list of the abnormal things that occur on our computer since SpywareStrike 2.5 made our computer his home :
The message that SpywareStrike keeps on showing down right my screen is :
Your computer is infected!
Dangerous infection was detected on you PC
The system will now download and installl most efficient
antimalware program to prevent data loss and your private
information theft.
Click here to protect your computer from the biggest malware
threats.
When closing the message it reappears a few seconds later.
There is a SpywareStrike directory in the Program Files directory.
Also in the All programs program list, SpywareStrike is present, even with an Uninstall option. When I start the uninstallation, a popup appears asking me the confirmation of the removal of SpywareStrike from the Program Files directory. When I confirm, I do not find SpywareStrike.exe anymore in the processes list of task manager but the infection message keeps on appearing.
After rebooting my computer, everything is back again : the message, the directory, SpywareStrike.exe
At each reboot, a (fake) scan by the SpywareStrike anti-spyware is executed. It terminates after a few seconds with a message indicating how much threats were found. That number of threats seems to increase slowly with the number of reboots.
From time to time, some popup advertisement for a casino or erotic site shows up on our screen. We can simply close it, but it shouldn't appear at all.
The startpages we defined for our internet explorer were removed or replaced by some page we do not want to see.
So that's all folks. Hope this helps you to find out how to remove this :mad: damned :mad: tool from my and others computer.