really bad case of spyware, do you use HijackThis?

[Jtorres13]

Hi, I have a frriend that was careless accessing the internet without antovorus or antispyware software. Te PC wasn't updated to the latest patches Windows XP, not even SP1 and she got a bad spyware attack.

It's something called antispysolutions. This pop up keeps popping up ever two or three minutes whever we got to any URL. And worst of all, it's a bout selling us antispyware!

The Task bar doesn't want to come up to end it, it keeps hiding the Task Bar and makes interent connection super slow!

I Googled it and found several forums posts but they all post something called HijackThis. If you don't post this, you don't get help there. Do any of you know HijackThis? Is it safe to install?

Or, how do we remove manually remove the infection? Neither AdWare nor Spybot can find it.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Yes hijackthis is safe to use, although you dont install it. It shows you all things associated with internet and browsers. Download this program
and also hijack this from the link below.

http://www.ewido.net/en/

its avg anti spyware

Set the program under scanner settings, set it to delete what it finds. Run this program in safe mode. Then restart in normal mode if you can , and run hijackthis, choose do a system scan and save a logfile and post the logfile on here. On hijackthis , post it on here before you do anything to it because not everything it finds is bad. We will show you what to remove.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

(hijackthis)

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon

 

[G0AOZ]

Type MSCONFIG at the RUN command, and click on the STARTUP tab. This will show you some of what's being loaded at startup, and you may be able to stop it from there until you can give the machine a good clean with what's been suggested. You'll need to reboot for changes to take effect.

Also, try booting in SAFE MODE - that will probably stop some of the blighters from being loaded!

Another way is to look in SERVICES under Computer Management. You may find something untoward running which you should be able to stop.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[BadBigBen]

1.) follow the advice above...

2.) I would just go ahead and start from scratch... meaning, copy the personal files and data to a DVD/CD or another partition... then FORMAT that C Drive (or where the xp install is located at) and do a FRESH INSTALL...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[Jtorres13]

I'm very inclined to wipe out the hard drive and start from scratch. They don't use the PC for much than internet access.

I'll give one try to Hijack this. If it gets ugly I'll wipe out. thanks. the name doesn't inspire much competent-company-name feelings, you know: "Hijack This".

 

[sggaunt]

It is an odd name however, HiJackThis is and has been for several years the 'first run' tool for detecting rouge software on PC's.
This year the author sold the rights to Trend Micro, one of the worlds largest Antivirus companies.

It works because it is in the most part simply a scanner, bad stuff finds it very hard to block.







Steve [The sane]: Delphi a feersum engin indeed.

 

[Infinity306]

Just a note that Hijackthis has been now sold to trendmicro due to the original author not having much time to update and work on it.. trendmicro is planning to continue to provide it as a free tool.. they have 2.00 up as a beta here

http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/threat_analytics/hijackthis.php?page=download