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Fadedo
2008-09-23, 10:22
I've been using S&D for awile now beutiful program love it never had real problems occur on my pc until now. i have read a few other posts from people with the same virtumonde issue with S&D asking for a scan on reboot and it just keeps repeating although it says it has fixed the issue i scan again and guess who's back in action virtumonde. any help to get rid of this menace would be Excellent it makes me uneasy having this lurking around :(

ken545
2008-09-24, 19:00
Hello Fadedo

Welcome to Safer Networking.

Please read Before You Post (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288)
That said, All advice given by anyone volunteering here, is taken at own risk.
While best efforts are made to assist in removing infections safely, unexpected stuff can happen.

Download Trendmicros Hijackthis (http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/_download/HJTInstall.exe) to your desktop.

Double click it to install
Follow the prompts and by default it will install in C:\Program Files\Trendmicro\Hijackthis\Highjackthis.exe
Open HJT Scan and Save a Log File, it will open in Notepad
Go to Format and make sure Wordwrap is Unchecked
Go to Edit> Select All.....Edit > Copy and Paste the new log into this thread by using the Post Reply and not start a New Thread.

DO NOT have HijackThis fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.