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There was a post in here the other day asking if anyone has tested
Microsoft's AntiSpyware program.
I have been using the program on my home machine and 5 of my office's 20
machines since it's release. Today a number of users were hit with massive
spyware attacks. 5 machines had MS AntiSpy installed. The others had only
Spybot installed. The machines with Spybot are updated and scanned frequently
so they were pretty much clean prior to this.
I ran Spybot on the first machine. Spybot locked up while trying to remove
the threats. None were removed. I ran Spybot in Safe Mode and was able to
remove some but not all in the long list of threats, although they all
immediately reinfected the system on reboot. These were mainly new spyware
programs that I have never seen. Virtual Bouncer and People on Page were the
only old, known threats and Spybot has never been able to remove them before
anyway.
It was not easy but after turning off most of the spyware in Task Manager, I
installed MS AntiSpy. After updating it, I went back into safe mode and ran a
Quick Scan. A ton of problems were found (54) and all but 2 were removed. I
chose Remove instead of the recommended Quarantine on those two. After
reboot, I ran another Quick Scan. The last two problems were found and
quarantined. Finally, I ran a Deep Scan and no threats remained.
The results were the same on all remaining machines.
I read a post saying that the SpyWare makers were gearing up for this attack
and I thank the Microsoft AntiSpyware Team for helping me look like a hero
today.
Good job !!!
HJ
There was a post in here the other day asking if anyone has tested
Microsoft's AntiSpyware program.
I have been using the program on my home machine and 5 of my office's 20
machines since it's release. Today a number of users were hit with massive
spyware attacks. 5 machines had MS AntiSpy installed. The others had only
Spybot installed. The machines with Spybot are updated and scanned frequently
so they were pretty much clean prior to this.
I ran Spybot on the first machine. Spybot locked up while trying to remove
the threats. None were removed. I ran Spybot in Safe Mode and was able to
remove some but not all in the long list of threats, although they all
immediately reinfected the system on reboot. These were mainly new spyware
programs that I have never seen. Virtual Bouncer and People on Page were the
only old, known threats and Spybot has never been able to remove them before
anyway.
It was not easy but after turning off most of the spyware in Task Manager, I
installed MS AntiSpy. After updating it, I went back into safe mode and ran a
Quick Scan. A ton of problems were found (54) and all but 2 were removed. I
chose Remove instead of the recommended Quarantine on those two. After
reboot, I ran another Quick Scan. The last two problems were found and
quarantined. Finally, I ran a Deep Scan and no threats remained.
The results were the same on all remaining machines.
I read a post saying that the SpyWare makers were gearing up for this attack
and I thank the Microsoft AntiSpyware Team for helping me look like a hero
today.
Good job !!!
HJ