Adware.AdSponsor/ISM Removal Help please

Spybot is not reporting anything. Let's do this:

Please Disable Spybot's TeaTimer

* Run Spybot and click Mode
* Select Advanced Mode.
* Then click Tools and select Resident.
* Now in the right window pane, uncheck TeaTimer.
* Also while this is open, in the left column now select IE Tweaks
* and then in the right pane make sure all the Miscellaneous locks are unchecked.
* Now quit Spybot!

Run this: Disable/Remove Windows Messenger to remove Windows Messenger. Do not confuse Windows Messenger with MSN Messenger because they are not the same. Windows Messenger is a frequent cause of popups.

Please use add/remove programs to uninstall:
Viewpoint Media Player

Now Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixME.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.

Now use windows explorer to find and delete:
c:\windows\system32\SETF6.tmp

Now re-run MBAM and see what it reports.

 

Please download and install Registrar Lite

Run Registrar Lite navigate to each of the following keys (one at a time) and take ownership of them (I explained how to do that further down).

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{12da1bc4-5384-42fd-a119-3c99d2d146a2}

To take ownership of the key do the following:

* Copy & Paste the registry key from above into the Address bar of Registrar Lite and hit the enter key. This will bring you to the registry key.
* Click-on Security in the top Menu
* Select Take Ownership
* Repeat these steps for all of the registry keys given above before continue to the next steps below.
* Now leave RegistrarLite running and continue
* Now run the fixME.reg REGISTRY PATCH below in this message.
* Tell me the results. Any error messages?
* Now in RegistrarLite click View and then Refresh
* Now navigate one at a time to each of the above keys we took ownership of to make sure they were deleted.
* If any of the keys still exist, move on down to PART 2 - Setting Permissions for Everyone below!.


Here is the Registry Patch

Now Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixME.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.

PART 2 - Setting Permissions for Everyone

Run the below if some of the registry keys still exist after running the above steps.

Now I want you to use Registar Lite again to navigate to each of the below keys (one at a time) by pasting them into the Address Bar and hitting return. But this time click the Security menu item and select Edit Permissions so we can change permissions to everyone ( I describe this down below the list of registry keys).

After click Edit Permissions , here is what I expect you to see in the Group or user names area of the form:

Everyone
SYSTEM

Select Everyone by clicking on it. Now at the bottom in the Permissions box click the check box for Full Control. The click Apply and then OK to get back to the main Registrar Lite screen. Nowright click on the registry key and select Delete. The click View and Refresh. Check to see if the registry key just deleted truly deleted. If so, move on to the next to work thru the whole list. If it does not delete, I want you to boot into safe mode and repeat these exact same steps to see if we can do it from safe mode.

Then reboot your PC!

 

We will try this again, hopefully with better luck:

Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixME.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.

Tell me if you get a success message.

Then do a search for those keys after a reboot.

 

You are welcome....If you are not having any other malware issues, then: