Freaking DeepFreeze will NOT die

This sucker is worse that Michael Myers in the Halloween series.

I need some help / advice to rid myself of the remnants of this piece of s@*t DeepFreeze that are left on my machine <Windoze XP>. I need to move forward!!

Dumb me - DLed Deep_Freeze_62587.exe and without a lot of study, went ahead and installed it - BIGGG mistake. <Hey - sounded like a kool app.> Did not actually use it - just clicked it once to extract or whatever it does.

So - noticed 2 very peculiar things after a reboot. 1 - Stuff I had just installed was not only not on the machine, neither were their associated DL files. 2 - Noticed that stuff I had deleted from my machine was back. Now over the years, I have dealt with some heady stuff, but this was perplexing. Tardy, I did my due-diligence and discovered the dark side of this program. Reviewed dozens of sites, including Faronics, and scores of posts.

1 - Follow the instructions from Faronics as to un-installing their POS. After requisite reboot, on my Desktop there was their st00pid frozen pig icon. Also their main sys proggy deepfrz.sys was still there. Registry had ~ 6 innocuous entries. The rest including their uninstaller were gone.

2 - In regular windows, right click both files Delete, reboot, still there.

3 - In regular windows, send both files to Recycle & Empty, reboot, still there.

4 - Regular windows, right click both files Unlocker, reboot, still there.

5 - In regular windows, run both files thru Heidi Eraser, reboot, still there.

6 - Repeat Steps 2 - 5 in Safe mode

7 - Try KillBox - no change

8 - Bootsafe, go to DOS (or command prompt) and use DEL there. No change.

9 - Nope, did not lower myself to use a Restore. Actually all Restores prior to DF installation mysteriously vanished. Imagine that...

10 - Yep - tried move the Bios date ahead several months in conjunction with above.

So - at this point remaining options are:

1 - Beg for help here. 2 - Reformat. 3 - Horseshoe magnet 4 - Screwdriver

5 - 44 Magnum.

I have to admit that the d00dz who wrote this warez are definely 3l33t. But I am really starting to get p@#*ed off.:cry

 

Resolved - Not by Me: Re: Freaking DeepFreeze will NOT die

[Been awhile - had some major problems including illness.]

Sorry I posted this here, but many would likely consider this program not unmalware. Anyway, it took me longer to clean this up than any other malware I have had in over 20 years. Including conflicker.

Thanks for your post. Before I stopped by here, I read the entire Faronics web site including all DL docs, pdfs, etc. Twice. And not all but a lot from Google searches. I had also contacted Faronics and not heard from them in OVER a week. I needed that PC.

I followed their instructions VERBATIM and that is why I contacted them and posted here. That is one POWERFUL piece of SW. If the d00dz over at Goverment Security can't hack it, you know it is one tough cookie.

Anyway - I finally heard from Faronics. I dealt with 3 different people over the course of 4 days + a week-end and it took about 8 hours for them to figure out how THEIR SW had botched on the uninstall. They thanked me very much for bringing it to their attention. Heh. And I thanked them.

Any SW like this that has the power do do what it does should have more warnings at Install time. OBTW - we are going to RUN this app. Do your know what it will do? Are You Sure. Really? I mean seriously.. And so on. The Install not only installs it but it RUNS it without asking or telling you.

Any way - problem resolved. And everything as back to normal before over 10days of use. Oh and it also deposited nearly 1/4 million hidden link files on my HD. That remains for another post here or elsewhere.

In addition to learning a whole bunch about NTFS file structure, link files, autocompletes, and some other really cleaver stuff, I certainly learned my lesson.

Thanks & cheers - JoW