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Friday
2008-11-28, 18:04
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "AntiSpywareSoldier" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:
malware

Description:
AntispywareSoldier is related with Smitfraud-C. which often shows you popups telling you that your computer is infected with spyware. If you click on these popups AntispywareSoldier gets downloaded and the user cannot cancel the process. Once installed it finds a lot of problems that all are brought to you by AntispywareSoldier. When the user wants to solve these problems he has to buy a licence.
Removal Instructions:

Quicklaunch area:

Please remove the following items from your start quick launch area text to the "Start" button in the taskbar at the bottom.
To check where they are pointing to, right-click them and choose "Properties" from the context menu appearing.

Quicklaunch symbols named "Antispyware Soldier.lnk" and pointing to "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\antispysoldier.exe".

Installed Software List:

You can try to uninstall products with the names listed below; for items identified by other properties or to avoid malware getting active again on uninstallation, use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) or RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) to locate and get rid of these entries.

Products that have a key or property named "Antispyware Soldier_is1".

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.

The file at "<$SYSDIR>\mshtml32.tdb".
The file at "C:\Windows\System32\mshtml32.tdb".
The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\Antispyware Soldier\Antispyware Soldier on the Web.lnk".
The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\Antispyware Soldier\Antispyware Soldier.lnk".
The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\Antispyware Soldier\Uninstall Antispyware Soldier.lnk".
The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\antispysoldier.exe".
The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\antispysoldier.url".
The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\bz.dll".
The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\pkill.exe".
The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\interface\English.lng".
The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\sounds\crit.wav".
The file at "<$DESKTOP>\Antispyware Soldier.lnk".
Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If AntiSpywareSoldier uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) to remove them.

Folders:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these folders.

The directory at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\Antispyware Soldier".
The directory at "<$LOCALAPPDATA>\AntispywareSoldier".
The directory at "<$LOCALAPPDATA>\AntispywareSoldier\DB".
The directory at "<$LOCALAPPDATA>\AntispywareSoldier\DB\run_backup".
The directory at "<$LOCALAPPDATA>\AntispywareSoldier\DB\snapshots".
The directory at "<$LOCALAPPDATA>\AntispywareSoldier\Logs".
The directory at "<$LOCALAPPDATA>\AntispywareSoldier\Quarantine".
The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier".
The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\interface".
The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Antispyware Soldier\sounds".
Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If AntiSpywareSoldier uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify folders!

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.

Delete the registry key "AntispywareSoldier" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\".
If AntiSpywareSoldier uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.