Antispyware Soft / Hijacker

BrownHound · May 29, 2010

I got a virus called "Antispyware Soft", and it completely hijacked my computer. It would close all programs that I opened up, including the taskmanager. It was pretty nasty. I'm not very knowledgable with viruses / malware removal, but I managed to go in through Safe Mode and delete the broken .dll file. It removed the fake spyware program out of my taskbar, and my programs were no longer exited out.

But, I still feel the effects of the virus.
I downloaded a complete new set of anti-malware / anti-virus programs, along with a new Firewall.

I downloaded Malware bytes, scanned, deleted all the malware it could find.
I downloaded Spybot-SD Resident, scanned, deleted all the issues.
And I downloaded Comodo firewall, and ran it's virus scan, and of course, deleted all the issues.

But for some reason my Host process keeps crashing.. everyday..
And everytime I follow a link, it either redirected to some bogus rip off page, or it opens a new tab in my browser to a bogus rip off page..

So, obviously i'm still being hijacked. But, i've done everything in my knowledge to do..

I ran "HijackThis" and it wouldn't allow me to adjust the Host process..

Any help into this? I've heard that this virus is very, very common.

TimW · May 29, 2010

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Antispyware Soft / Hijacker

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