Saturday, May 12, 2007

SpyLocked !!! - Damn you Spywares ...

I am putting this up so that someone who is in the same S**T H**E will find this post and do the right thing first ...

Reached Chennai this morning for a happy weekend at home ... First thing I did was to switch on my computer to check my mails .. There was this stupid annoying pop up message - "You system might be affected with malacious spywares .. blah .. blah" - coming up every 1 minute .. I right away went to my best friend "Google" to fix it ... a few hints to start off .. smitRem, xSoftSpy, Windows defender ... but nothing seemed to work ... Then I came across this spyrware removal utility "Spyhunter " .. http://www.enigmasoftware.com/ ... Installed it right away and ran the Quick Scan .. this guy was cool !!! .. it listed somewhere close to 90 infected entries .. but the only problem was that it was a FREE SCANNER not a Removal tool !!!
Now I was in a fix what to do .. then decided I have to get this spyware somehow out of my computer.. Had to take the hard route !!! Started deleting all the Cookies, Registry Entries, Files and many more entries manually ... Deleting the registry was the biggest pain in the whatever !!!

After about 45 mins of accurate typing and serious strain to my eyes, I was done with the list .. and rebooted my machine ... It worked !!!! Finally the pop ups vanished ..

Hope this post helps some deserted soul in the same Deep S**T as me ...

Happy browsing !!!!

bye ...

1 comment:

Amit Shah said...

Alternatively, you could just use firefox (preferably on Linux).