Manual removal instructions for SpywareThis

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "SpywareThis" manually.
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Categories:

• malware

Description:

SpywareThis is an anti spyware/anti adware application. When tested, it only found cookies although several adware products (like Zango) were installed. The misleading price for the product shown on the website was about half the price displayed on the billing formular, which is most probably intended.

Desktop:

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

• Shortcuts named "Spyware This.lnk" and pointing to "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This\spywarethis.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 or RunAlyzer to locate and get rid of these entries.

• Products that have a key or property named "{D0B92048-3A58-4F4A-8542-C405A8790F71}".

Files:

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

• The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\spyware.this!\spyware.this!.lnk".
• The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\spyware.this!\Uninstall.lnk".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This\RegistrySpylist".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This\Spylist".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This\SpywareCookies".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This\spywarethis.exe".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This\images\Thumbs.db".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If SpywareThis 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!

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.

Folders:

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

• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This\images".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This".
• The directory at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\spyware.this!".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If SpywareThis 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 "SpywareThis" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\".
• References to the file "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Spyware This\spywarethis.exe" at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDlls\.

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


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