Spyware report

For anyone interested, I went through the applicable steps in the "Do not post until you have read this: How to: Spyware, Trojan and Virus Removal".

The procedure succeeded in removing Gator and a few other things I wanted to get rid of.

For geeks, here are more details . . .

1. Spybot found/flagged Spyhunter.
I did a Spyhunter scan yesterday (without first asking about it here) and Spyhunter claimed to have found all sorts of things including lots of Hotbar items. But as far as I can tell, none of the programs recommended in the "Do not post" thread flagged Hotbar, so I wonder if Hotbar was/is really present? Would the other programs on the list have found, flagged and/or removed Hotbar without me noticing?

I used add/remove programs to remove Spyhunter yesterday (upon advice here), but Spybot still found it after this.

2. A question about AdAWare. I noticed that it quarantines items and then asks about removing them. If I click on "yes" to removing them, are they removed from the computer or still in quarantine? The programs lists a high number of quanantined items, but maybe this refers to items that were quarantined *and* removed?

3. Here is what the various programs reported:
- Spybot found Spyhunter and nothing else
- CWShredder found 0 items
- AdAWare found 5 items
- Kill2Me searched for Look2Me
- SpywareBlaster: I wasn't sure what to do with this (menus not designed for dummies), but I did run something and it reported that I'm Protected Against Checked Items (I left them all checked).
- Norton Anti-Virus reported no viruses (whereas it had reported Gator and trickler.exe before running all the above programs).
- Trend Micro Virus Scan reported "no malware alert"
- McAfee Stinger didn't appear to give a report

4. Concerning the part about removing MS Java, I looked in my programs and didn't see this particular Java prog. I did see Java2Run Envirnment and Java Web Start. Are these okay or should they be removed?

5. I didn't use about.Buster or HSRemove (not applicable).

Thanks!

Laurie

 

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