These things are a real pain. If you don't get all of the registry entries and the baggage that these things installs in odd places, you will continue to have it return. You need to go into System Restore and turn System Restore off. Then I recommend either getting HJT (HiJack This) as someone else s***ested earlier, along with Spy Bot Search and Destroy, and a nifty little application I found a few months back that seems to work really well... CCleaner (crap cleaner). I use all of the above along with AdAware. If you don't know much about computers and what is safe and what isn't as far as deleting a bunch of stuff, just leave the CCleaner set to its default settings and run it. Anyhow, once you have run at least one of the above, restart your computer (make sure System Restore is turned off). SR has all of the restore points, which means it has files of the virus/malware saved. When you turn it off and restart, this ***** all of those restore points. I wouldn't run HJT and try to fix the entries myself if I wasn't certain what I was looking at though. If you have questions, try posting your HJT log here on the forums and having someone who knows how to pick out the problems help you out. Oh... You want to remember to turn SR back on after the reboot.
Good luck!
Last edited by Erotes; 10-01-2004 at 05:11 PM.
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