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[Oppressed]

Hi,

It's *great* that there is a fix for this issue?

A little to late for me who turned off the TeaTimer and ended up getting infected with SpyAxe and its buddies

[tashi]

Hello Oppressed.
Sorry to hear you had an infection, I am curious as to which security programs you have on your system and whether they (and windows) were all up to date.

[Oppressed]

Hello Oppressed.
Sorry to hear you had an infection, I am curious as to which security programs you have on your system and whether they (and windows) were all up to date.

Thank you for the reply

I have only had the computer online for a little over 1 week. It is running with Windows XP (using built-in Firewall?) and NAV 2006. (I believe both are up to date. NAV for sure and XP patch Nov 23) Almost the first, if not the first new software I installed was SpyBot. Within hours I noticed the problem when a Flash Player update /plugin tried to occur. Strangest part of this is I searched (google from my homepage) using TeaTimer Fix and SpyBot Resident Fix and I think I got no hits that helped? I arrived here yesterday on a SpyAxe Search.

Anyway for now I'm using a differant computer as the other has a Browser Hijack happening :(

[tashi]

Hi Oppressed.

For the infected computer, please go here and follow instructions.
Before you post a log

Start a topic here:
Malware Forum

Someone will then take a look at the system and advise you on any malware removal needed.

It wouldn't hurt to read this:
So how did I get infected in the first place? By Tony Klein

Personally, although the Windows XP firewall is better than nothing; I do not recommend it when there are other firewalls that do a far better job.

Anyway please post a log in the malware forum and we will do our best to help you clean up the infection.

Cheers.

[Oppressed]

tashi,

Thanks for the reply.

That other computer is pretty much toast now anyways!

I've tried various online scanners already and either couldn't get to them or SpyAxe plays games when I try to use them. (ie. a message my C drive is being deleted or windows pop up installing more Trojans.)

Also I don't have that HiJack program installed so I can't make a log.

Maybe sometime in the future when I can get that computer running again I'll load it up with all the programs suggested in the one Link and the TeaTimer Fix posted here.

One last question, if I may? I'm confused, I did use the immunize feature in SpyBot but I guess it didn't know about this security issue yet? Or when I turned off the Resident did I disable the immunize feature too?

[tashi]

Also I don't have that HiJack program installed so I can't make a log.

You could try downloading hjt onto the working computer, burn to a CD and then run it on the infected system to get a log.
That might work if you would like to take a go at it.

I'm confused, I did use the immunize feature in SpyBot but I guess it didn't know about this security issue yet?

Security issue? Not sure what you mean.

How Spybot-S&D protects against the installation of Spyware/Malware

A good explanation by md usa spybot fan, hope that helps.