Spy Ware
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My step father has litterly tons of spyware living on his machine. When I see him I useally am asked to look at his computer its acting funny. (Tell him to be more carefull but it dosn't help.. Last time I even installed Firefox and told them not to use IE, but they did anyway... Sigh) Today was just such a day: I found "SpywareStrike" and after a long drawn out battle managed to kill it, however it has a baloon tooltip in the system tray. While the spyware is not installed anymore the baloon tip remains. (Its really annoying its huge and never goes away) Anyway, I hid the baloontip from the UI -- Its still their you just can't see it. My question is, is there a program like Spy++ that can grab the tray icon and tell me the dll attached to it. Spy++ can only see the TrayNotifyWnd not the icons in the tray. Matthew Hazlett Sometimes I miss the simpler DOS days of Borland Turbo Pascal (but not very often).
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My step father has litterly tons of spyware living on his machine. When I see him I useally am asked to look at his computer its acting funny. (Tell him to be more carefull but it dosn't help.. Last time I even installed Firefox and told them not to use IE, but they did anyway... Sigh) Today was just such a day: I found "SpywareStrike" and after a long drawn out battle managed to kill it, however it has a baloon tooltip in the system tray. While the spyware is not installed anymore the baloon tip remains. (Its really annoying its huge and never goes away) Anyway, I hid the baloontip from the UI -- Its still their you just can't see it. My question is, is there a program like Spy++ that can grab the tray icon and tell me the dll attached to it. Spy++ can only see the TrayNotifyWnd not the icons in the tray. Matthew Hazlett Sometimes I miss the simpler DOS days of Borland Turbo Pascal (but not very often).
Hi Matthew, I've also encountered that "SpywareStrike" thing on my PC and it's really annoying to have a baloon tool-tip that always pop-up on your system tray. It always disturbs me. I have no concrete idea on how to solve that but i will share to you my experience and what i have done to remove that thing. First step that i have done is trace a certain suspicious exe program which is currently running while the pup-up appears and delete it. You can view all running processes on windows task manager. Sad to say i have forgotten the name of that exe files. But there's still a pop-up coming out so i tried to run my anti-spyware programs (Ad-Aware SE, etc) and stills nothing happens. Lately i've realized that pop-up only runs on current computer account infected, once you have logged out and used another pc account, the pop-up can't be seen again. SO i've deleted my currenct user account and created new one. Finally, to make sure that my pc is really clean from spywares, i've downloaded "Smartcop" antivirus, and know what? I've found some virus and spies that other anti-spyware and anti-virus cannot be detected. That's all... Hope this would help a little bit. But it was just my experience. You must also consult other who can handle and solve this problem accurately.. Thanks! ChitzDacs Computer Programmer, Philippines..... :) -- modified at 1:11 Friday 3rd February, 2006
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Hi Matthew, I've also encountered that "SpywareStrike" thing on my PC and it's really annoying to have a baloon tool-tip that always pop-up on your system tray. It always disturbs me. I have no concrete idea on how to solve that but i will share to you my experience and what i have done to remove that thing. First step that i have done is trace a certain suspicious exe program which is currently running while the pup-up appears and delete it. You can view all running processes on windows task manager. Sad to say i have forgotten the name of that exe files. But there's still a pop-up coming out so i tried to run my anti-spyware programs (Ad-Aware SE, etc) and stills nothing happens. Lately i've realized that pop-up only runs on current computer account infected, once you have logged out and used another pc account, the pop-up can't be seen again. SO i've deleted my currenct user account and created new one. Finally, to make sure that my pc is really clean from spywares, i've downloaded "Smartcop" antivirus, and know what? I've found some virus and spies that other anti-spyware and anti-virus cannot be detected. That's all... Hope this would help a little bit. But it was just my experience. You must also consult other who can handle and solve this problem accurately.. Thanks! ChitzDacs Computer Programmer, Philippines..... :) -- modified at 1:11 Friday 3rd February, 2006
I finally ot rid of it compleatly. There were a bunch of files in the \windows directory. I found a document online listing all the files from all the versions and found one that matched. Forget the URL but heres the jist. Use Windows Explorer to locate and delete any of the below if found: * c:\wp.exe * c:\bsw.exe * C:\WINDOWS\ZLOADER3.EXE * C:\Program Files\Security iGuard <--- the whole folder * C:\Program Files\SpySheriff <--- the whole folder * C:\Program Files\SpyAxe <--- the whole folder * C:\winstall.exe * C:\Program Files\AntivirusGold <--- the whole folder * C:\WINDOWS\System32\winnook.exe * C:\WINDOWS\System32\hookdump.exe * C:\Program Files\AdwareDelete <--- the whole folder * C:\Program Files\Daily Weather Forecast <--- the whole folder * C:\WINDOWS\system32\netwrap.dll * C:\WINDOWS\system32\wiatwain.dll * C:\WINDOWS\system32\replmap.dll Delete Files in: * C:\Documents and Settings\(Name)\Local Settings\temp... * C:\temp It hides in the temp areas.. Matthew Hazlett Sometimes I miss the simpler DOS days of Borland Turbo Pascal (but not very often).