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Help!
My XP Home (SP2 and all MS-issued updates) machine has fallen victim to "The
Adware Meanies" (not to be confused with "The Blue Meanies" of Sgt. Pepper
Fame).
Microsoft Antispyware Beta 1, Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad Aware SE
Personal (all updated) have all found the following Spyware on my machine:
Transponder.AbetterInternet
Transponder.AbetterInternet.Aurora
Transponder.AbetterInternet.DrPMon
ShopAtHome
IEPlugin
All three (3) Ad/Spyware removal programs find these threats, but they
cannot seem to remove them.
Spybot S&D comes the closest, and reports that upon the next bootup, Spybot
will clean and remove the offending critter. S&D does indeed run during the
following bootup, but reports finding no problems.
The other piece of bad news that I've noted is that System Restore no longer
operates. When attempted to run, System Restore reports that it cannot
restore (no matter what date I request) and that no System Changes have been
made.
An interesting behavior characteristic that I've noticed is an executable
located in C:\Windows\System32 that keeps changing names (to avoid being
cleaned and removed perhaps?)
Has anyone had successful experience in removing the aforementioned nasties,
or is my only salvation an XP re-load?
Thanks VERY much in advance for any assistance!
- Bill
Help!
My XP Home (SP2 and all MS-issued updates) machine has fallen victim to "The
Adware Meanies" (not to be confused with "The Blue Meanies" of Sgt. Pepper
Fame).
Microsoft Antispyware Beta 1, Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad Aware SE
Personal (all updated) have all found the following Spyware on my machine:
Transponder.AbetterInternet
Transponder.AbetterInternet.Aurora
Transponder.AbetterInternet.DrPMon
ShopAtHome
IEPlugin
All three (3) Ad/Spyware removal programs find these threats, but they
cannot seem to remove them.
Spybot S&D comes the closest, and reports that upon the next bootup, Spybot
will clean and remove the offending critter. S&D does indeed run during the
following bootup, but reports finding no problems.
The other piece of bad news that I've noted is that System Restore no longer
operates. When attempted to run, System Restore reports that it cannot
restore (no matter what date I request) and that no System Changes have been
made.
An interesting behavior characteristic that I've noticed is an executable
located in C:\Windows\System32 that keeps changing names (to avoid being
cleaned and removed perhaps?)
Has anyone had successful experience in removing the aforementioned nasties,
or is my only salvation an XP re-load?
Thanks VERY much in advance for any assistance!
- Bill