Manual Removal Guide for Flyswat

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Flyswat" 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:

• adware
• spyware

Description:

Flyswat creates a User ID to every user.

Supposed Functionality:

Search Enhancement for IE.

Privacy Statement:

Privacy Policy: The flyswat service logs anonymous click-streams as users navigate the Web. This data has no personal or demographic information associated with it and will be considered only in aggregate form. flyswat uses this information for product enhancement and may also share it with our partners to use for product enhancement.
FAQ: If the flyswat application on your computer ever fails, it will automatically send a diagnosis back to the flyswat server, with information about the type of system and state of usage when flyswat failed."
(Both sources: http://accs-net.com/smallfish/flyswat.htm)

Links (be careful!):

Website: http://www.flyswat.com (unreachable)

Removal Instructions:

Start Menu:

Please remove the following items from your start menu.
To check where they are pointing to, right-click them and choose "Properties" from the context menu appearing.

• Groups named "Flyswat".

Autorun:

Please use Spybot-S&D, RunAlyzer or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.

• Entries named "FlyswatDesktop".

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 or RunAlyzer to locate and get rid of these entries.

• Products that have a key or property named "Flyswat".

Files:

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

• The file at "<$WINDIR>\FSUninst.exe".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\fssetup.dll".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\fsinstall.ini".
• A file with an unknown location named "flyswat20.exe".
• A file with an unknown location named "flyswat_win32-5000.exe".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Flyswat uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
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!

Folders:

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

• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Flyswat".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Flyswat uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
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 "Flyswat" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\".
• Delete the registry key "Flyswat" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\".
• Delete the registry key "{82B98006-7A56-11D2-A26F-00C04F962769}" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\".
• A key with a likely random name in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ that has "Flyswat Browser Helper" as its default value data.
• A key with a likely random name in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ that has "Flyswat Links List" as its default value data.
• A key with a likely random name in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ that has "CoFlyswatPopup" as its default value data.
• A key with a likely random name in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ that has "Flyswat" as its default value data.
• A key with a likely random name in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ that has "F&lyswat Content Window" as its default value data.
• A key with a likely random name in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ that has "F&lyswat" as its default value data.

If Flyswat uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer, RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.

Browser:

The following browser plugins or items can either be removed directly in your browser, or through the help of e.g. Spybot-S&D or RunAlyzer.

• Please remove Browser Helpers named "Flyswat Browser Helper".
• Please remove Browser Helpers named "Flyswat".
• Look for Internet Explorer extensions named "Show Flyswat".
• Look for Internet Explorer extensions named "Flyswat\showfs.html".
• Please remove Browser Helpers named "F&lyswat".
• Look for ActiveX software installed from "www.flyswat.com/acx.html".

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,

1. Please read these instructions before requesting assistance,
2. Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.