Advice on SmitFraud/ MalwareWipe

Hi i'm new so be gentle please!

I have been recently plagued by pop ups and spyware.
I am using Mozilla Firefox but get pop ups from IE when i'm not even running it. I inadvertently clicked on a warning triangle in my tool tray which opened up MalwareWipe which I have subsequently found to be suspect! I ran Malwarewipe (I know, i'm stupid!) and it told me I have a smitfraud virus.

I have searched the forums but cannot find any examples of these problems.

Any help greatly received,

Many thanks

Bill

 

Thanks Chas. I was looking on the site whilst on work time so wasn't able to look very well I admit LOL.
I'll give those a go and get rid of this darned spyware! I had a problem with a CWS Hijack a while back and used the excellent methods from Major Geeks so should be able to manage these pesky things.

I'll let you know how I get on!

Many thanks

Bill

 

Hi Chas
I ran everything and all the spyware went away, but I think (ok I know) that I didn't turn off system restore in safe mode and its all back again LOL!

I'm going to do a total reclean tomorrow and will post logs etc then.

One question I have is this though; Once you have saved the reg file to your desktop, (in the Malwarewipe removal procedure) it says this in the instructions;

"Now copy the contents of the below Quote Box to Notepad. Then click File and then Save As. Change the Save as Type to All Files. Name the file fixmwipe.reg and then click save. it to your Desktop. We will use it later after a reboot into safe mode."

But it doesn't say to do anything with the regfile after. Am I missing something? I clicked on the file in safe mode and it changed the registry files. Was that correct? It seemed to work

Thanks again

Bill

 

Hi Chas
Strange as this may seem, I booted up my PC at the weekend, my AVG kicked in and discovered a virus. I clicked to 'heal' it and it appears to have sorted out my malware problem! It also healed a 'zlob' file which i believe was to do with the pop ups i was experiencing. All seems to be fine.

Could AVG have 'caught up'? If so, how well do you think my problem been sorted.

Would you recommend I still scanned/ cleaned my system? ( I think thats probably a no-brainer, right?)

Thanks again

Bill