Spybot s&d warning!

[YellowDog]

Um....no....who does?????

Mate, try starting in Safe mode and do a system restore to before it got buggered up. OR put in your origninal OS CD (XP I presume) and run the Fixboot utility.

Good luck!

[Max Preload]

Um....no....who does?????

I do. Every week a full ghost of the bootable partition to a 1TB external drive, daily synchronising between my work & home PCs using my 16GB USB drive & SYNCBACK SE and a twice weekly backup of other partitions to the 1TB.

[Ixion]

I do an image of the lap top HD to a second HD mounted in a caddy which goes in the DVD drive bay (IBM T series). That's actually through the Linux partition cos I can mount the Windoze partition under Linux. I can't say I do it EVERY week. But a couple of times a month. Or more if something's changed. Beauty of that is I can load and read it on anything, it doesn't rely on the geometry remaining the same.

[mister.koz]

I back up all my important data in a few locations, i found that when i did need and use ghost images i ended up deciding against using it so i could set it up better.

Quote:
There's 2 types of people, those who back up and those who haven't lost anything.

[Winston001]

All very interesting but I'm still trying to find "hamsterductapesex.dll." Looks like Bill Gates forgot to put it in my OS.


Incidentally as well as Spybot I also run Windows Advanced System Care - nice utility for all sorts of cleaning.

[mister.koz]

All very interesting but I'm still trying to find "hamsterductapesex.dll." Looks like Bill Gates forgot to put it in my OS.


Incidentally as well as Spybot I also run Windows Advanceed System Care - nice utility for all sorts of cleaning.

I would advise not to use "Windows Advanceed System Care" primarily as programs with silly names are normally not good. Its not an exact science but i have been working with this type of computing for some time.

I use:

• Mcafe Stinger
• Spybot s&d
• Adaware se
• Malwarebytes Anti-malware
• Symantec antivirus corporate edition

And apart from irish viruses i have no troubles at all, but then i also use fire fox and never Internet explorer, I use a linux firewall (gentoo/iptables) and i don't click on porn banners or allow websites to install anything.

(ps. irish virus means you break shit yourself)

[Winston001]

I would advise not to use "Windows Advanceed System Care" primarily as programs with silly names are normally not good. Its not an exact science but i have been working with this type of computing for some time.

I use:

• Mcafe Stinger
• Spybot s&d
• Adaware se
• Malwarebytes Anti-malware
• Symantec antivirus corporate edition

And apart from irish viruses i have no troubles at all, but then i also use fire fox and never Internet explorer, I use a linux firewall (gentoo/iptables) and i don't click on porn banners or allow websites to install anything.

(ps. irish virus means you break shit yourself)

Sensible advice and when I originally ran Advanced Windows Care 2 years ago, I was a bit nervous. However it immediately fixed a problem which other utilities couldn't. It sets a Restore Point and a Registry Restore when first downloaded.

But you are dead right - silly names should be avoided.

[imne1]

do a clean instal of windows. that is the best solution. consider installing a program called deep freeze - which will save the whole system as it is. no need for anti anything, just reboot and its all back to normal.

[sinfull]

the hun . com is really good for spyware ! there you will find links to all sorts of sites, that will download malicious adware and trojans on to your system !
It's an unbelievable challenge to stay ahead of them !

Reboot is my friend !
Never paid for anti virus or spy killers !
Using Avast free virus at the mo and it seems to be doing its job picking up a couple of trojans in the last few weeks and blocking them !
Have Malwarebytes but dont seem to be picking up anything lately so might delete it and only download it when i'm hunting a trojan thats got loose in my system !
Run adaware daily and (depending where i been) i usually pick up between 10 and 50 spyware !~ Even your so called clean sites have spyware !

Had a call last night from a mate who (against my advice, cause he has no idea) bought a new laptop with vista (yuck) screaming for help cause he's all frozen up already after 2 weeks lol

[Hoon]

I don't bother with any of that crap, it just slows down my computer. As long as you know what to click on and what not to you are pretty safe from viruses. It may not be 100% foolproof but neither is the best AV software.

[mister.koz]

I don't bother with any of that crap, it just slows down my computer. As long as you know what to click on and what not to you are pretty safe from viruses. It may not be 100% foolproof but neither is the best AV software.

Dude honestly thats like saying you don't need a helmet and leathers to ride a bike, just never crash.

I frequent security portals and hacking sites looking for new threats to my servers and the servers at work, without anti virus i wouldn't get far at all.

The right anti virus and the right precautions can save you all sorts of trouble. I run Linux on my main machine so its not susceptible to that sort of harm but 99% of people just want a computer to protect itself.

[DEATH_INC.]

This problem with a false positive for "hellzlittlespy" occured in July 2008 for those Spybot users who did not upgrade their version from 1.3. The removal deleted a registry setting referred to during the boot up procedure.

Check your version by opening Spybot and going to Help>About on the menu bar. The latest version is 1.6. If you are still running 1.3, upgrade NOW to avoid more false positives.

If anyone with Spybot 1.5.2 onwards gets a positive for this, I would suggest checking with the forums at the Spybot website before attempting to remove the keylogger. Search on Google and you can find a number of removal instructions for the real "hellzlittlespy."

Always keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware products up to date.

Strange that, I just did the upgrade before it all went wrong.....

[DEATH_INC.]

I do. Every week a full ghost of the bootable partition to a 1TB external drive, daily synchronising between my work & home PCs using my 16GB USB drive & SYNCBACK SE and a twice weekly backup of other partitions to the 1TB.

Um, do you speak english???

[mister.koz]

Strange that, I just did the upgrade before it all went wrong.....

Its a good idea to do a registry backup before you run spybot and other programs like it, i am pretty sure you can do it in spybot but otherwise use the "export" feature in the regedit program, can give you a step by step if you don't know what i mean.

[DEATH_INC.]

The problem is that ya can't get back into windows at all, not in safe mode either.....we're working on it, there's a few cures out there, I just wanna have a go at fixing it myself......then I'll ask for some help after I stuff it up