Help - Virus / Spyware problem
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I am no computer numpty, and am very security conscious (running hardware firewall, ZoneAlarm, AVG, and SpyBot S&D), but seem to have picked up a nasty on my laptop.
At first it used to go mental and open window after window of coolwebsearch.com pages, as well as constantly resetting my homepage. Was very difficult to eradicate - AVG / Spybot cleaned it off, but it was business as normal after a reboot. Eventually after a couple of 4am bedtimes and finding a utility called CWShredder I managed to kill it permanently.
Or so I thought.
I have noticed that occasionally it will pop up a DUN dialague box, trying to get to a CWS page, and I get the odd alert from AVG Resident Shield:
"Virus: Trojan horse Dialer.7.B is found in file C:WINNTSystem32servicesdale.exe"
(this is on Win2k professional)
Running AVG/Spybot (which is complaining "DSO Exploit") and CWShredder will claim to remove it, although the latter will make me reboot to remove the version in memory does nothing, even when it says the system is clean it appears again.
This happens when the machine is not connected to the internet / LAN / doesn't have any floppies/CDs inserted.
Anybody any idea how I can get rid of the damn thing once and for all before I low-level format the hard drive? :rant:
Edited to say: has come up as several different Trojans when I have run AVG in the past.
>>> Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Thursday 22 July 19:41
At first it used to go mental and open window after window of coolwebsearch.com pages, as well as constantly resetting my homepage. Was very difficult to eradicate - AVG / Spybot cleaned it off, but it was business as normal after a reboot. Eventually after a couple of 4am bedtimes and finding a utility called CWShredder I managed to kill it permanently.
Or so I thought.
I have noticed that occasionally it will pop up a DUN dialague box, trying to get to a CWS page, and I get the odd alert from AVG Resident Shield:
"Virus: Trojan horse Dialer.7.B is found in file C:WINNTSystem32servicesdale.exe"
(this is on Win2k professional)
Running AVG/Spybot (which is complaining "DSO Exploit") and CWShredder will claim to remove it, although the latter will make me reboot to remove the version in memory does nothing, even when it says the system is clean it appears again.
This happens when the machine is not connected to the internet / LAN / doesn't have any floppies/CDs inserted.
Anybody any idea how I can get rid of the damn thing once and for all before I low-level format the hard drive? :rant:
Edited to say: has come up as several different Trojans when I have run AVG in the past.
>>> Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Thursday 22 July 19:41
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