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Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by willdread, Apr 30, 2006.

  1. willdread

    willdread Private E-2

    Tried Adaware and Spybot to remove this. They claimed to find and remove it, but my home page was still hijacked (claiming my computer was being controlled), and system tray popups still kept appearing.

    Your procedure seemed to do the trick. :)

    Many of the files were missing, but that may have been due to my other attempts at removal.

    One point I noticed, twain32.dll was present, although it isn't in the list of files to remove in the instructions. I removed it anyway as Sophos found a trojan in it. I trust this isn't needed by anything else(?)
     

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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    It is a Generic Procedure covering many forms of the infection. For that reason, you will not always see all the files.

    It most certainly is part of the procedure. It is the fifth hidden DLL file listed.


    Happy to hear it got your problems resolved.
     
  3. willdread

    willdread Private E-2

    Thanks for your reply, chaslang.


    It is in the list of dlls to rename, but it is omitted from the list to delete
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Thanks for the heads up!

    You are correct about it not specifically being listed to delete. But that paragraph does begin with :
    That was meant to cover all files since the list seems to keep growing. I have rewritten this paragraph to be more clear and to cover any file renamed from DLL to DDD.
     
    Last edited: May 1, 2006

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