tashi,
First off, thanks for moving this exchange to it's own Thread.
What I meant by the comment re: security issue is that a definition had not yet been added to the detection & block list that might have disallowed the SpyAxe install.
Regarding helping me with the removal issue. Someone on another Forum was able to walk me through installing the HiJackThis tool and also directed me to a Free Trial Version of a Security Suite called ewido. Luckily I was able to DL and install and scan using it; it found and removed most of the bad stuff so my new Computer is close to clean now.
Which leads me to these comments I found on the original Thread I posted to.
mikey said:
Bugs happen.
Perhaps you may have noticed in this thread as well as others that it has been noted often that it will be fixed in the next release.
Perhaps you think PMK should do an upgrade and cause tens of millions of DLs(a large expense for a free product) just to fix what is considered by any other than the greenest user to be a very MINOR bug(one which is extremely easy to fix manually).
Seems to me that you may have very little understanding about application support...especially for a freeware product used by so many. I would hope that most would have a more reasonable understanding.
I'm not cool with being looked down on because I don't know as much as a Tech, of course I don't, just like lots of others.
So, just to be clear, yes I am one of those "green" users who knows squat about manually fixing bugs on my computer. The world is full of us. (This is one major reason why I now run McAfee Security on my Windows 98SE computer and not NIS. No way in hell support was going to get me to edit my registry, period. Especially as I have something like dyslexia when it comes to #s.)
Also, when I searched online for a fix for the TeaTimer the only relevant hits I received were one's that suggested "green" users should turn it off because we were to stupid to use it correctly and the one that showed me how exactly to do it.
Do I hold the software designer responsible for my infection, of course not! Spybot is a great product

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Sorry though, and this might be over simplistic, but I wonder if there is a new DL available that addresses Skins for the Color Blind why it is so hard to provide an automated fix for the Resident issue? I'm not saying include it in the Updates but maybe put it prominently on the Spybot Homepage? I went there and looked for one and then I looked for a Link to these Forums and didn’t find that either. Google searches I preformed also didn’t find these Forums for me when I was looking for a Fix.
For me this was a cumulative failure. I am most pissed that my Keyword search on Google failed to get helpful results at the time but it got me here after I was infected!