Thread: An encounter with something nasty
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Old 08-03-2005, 00:22   #3
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Re: An encounter with something nasty
The dll or service is still running so despite what you do it recreates itself on startup. I had a similar experience not so long ago where I had identified the spyware, removed all traces of it in the registry and files but it still kept coming back and the virus checker kept reporting a file that did not exist, even a search in explorer could not find it. I was going to give up after about 1.5 hours until I remembered back to my DOS days and ran an attrib command to find the file and once I had done that I had it clean in under 10 minutes

I can't remember what one it was but I did a search in Google and all the so called solutions were as much help as used toilet roll. As long as you have removed all traces of the files from the hard disk and the registry, then a boot into safe mode and a check of the files using attrib can be very helpful because alot of spyware programs add the hidden attributes to the files so even a search in explorer won't, pick them up.
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