[jaws-uk] ABI network - vicious spy ware
- From: "Stephenson, Phil" <phil.stephenson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:33:29 +0100
Afternoon,
Have got major probs with my home pc and some real malicious spy ware
that's got onto it which I can't get rid of - am sending this from work
pc which is clean so don't panic about me sending viruses.
I think it stems from me downloading a wav file which when I did AVG
popped up saying there was a virus. I thought AVG had dealt with it but
when I went onto the web I was getting 100's of pop ups and when I
looked in the add/remove programs I had all sorts of new programs
including 'The ABI network'. I've run Ad aware, AVG and the MS Spy ware
software several times which has found lots of spy ware and Trojans.
However every time it says it's cleaned the system when I reboot and go
onto the web the ABI network programme is back and so are the pop ups.
As far as I can tell the Windows firewall is on and working as is the IE
pop up blocker etc.
I had a friend round last night who works in IT and he's tried all he
can but reckons he's going to need to take the machine away and do some
registry editing - just wondered if anyone else out there has had
experience of the ABI Network / Aurora partnership and if so what you
did to kill it.
Oh yeah am using Jaws 6.10, Win XP home, AVG 7 free edition and Ad
aware.
Your help much appreciated.
Cheers,
Phil
I've
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