[X] My Assistant

Just a question: Does anyone who got the virus have something called "aaa" with a java icon on their Add or Remove program list

If in doubt, delete the bastard. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I would if it let me... When I click on it, it says it doesn't exist but that I don't believe... I don't want to lose track of it so I kinda left it alone.
I google'd it and the only topics I found on it were posted February 2011. something new? Anyone have this? I am pretty sure it has something to do this...

This post has been edited by LastLuck: Feb 19 2011, 04:59

The name won't tell you much. It might as well be random. This could be an orphaned entry. That is, the program was manually deleted (Say, by AV) but the entry still exists in Add/Remove Programs list. Spybot can usually find those and remove them for you.

First Google result for 'spybot orphaned add/remove programs':
[www.techiehq.net] http://www.techiehq.net/diy-computers/reco...rams-69967.html

The [www.petri.co.il] hard way.

The [orphan.softalizer.com] super-lazy way. Bah, of course he removed it. It seems though, that 99% of Sobol's programs are infact macros much like VBScript or AutoHotKey. Heh, stuff like automatically stripping URLs from MS Word documents.

This post has been edited by lovehcomics: Feb 20 2011, 03:19

Thank

Not sure if it has been mentioned yet or if it's even related to the problem but a couple of things I do when I get pop-ups is press alt-F4, never the pop-up itself. If it's a site that's constantly popping up, go to your host file (Drive name\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts, might be different based on OS), open it in notepad and at the bottom add a line that says 127.0.0.1 and then the url of the site that's causing problems, then save the file. If it's one of those pop-ups or pages that won't let you go away, doing that allows you to close it.

This post has been edited by Warren: Mar 14 2011, 10:22

If you're having problems with popups, it's probably because you're not allowing cookies. Some of those ad networks break on that.

I'v had to deal whit this virus before and here's a few tips.

Running a system restore as a administrator will get rid of it over 90% of time.

Get the trial version of spy hunter 4 while the trial version won't delete it - it will tell you exactly where it is then you can manualy get rid of it. Also the Active .exe guard of spy hunter 4 will usually prevent the virus from executing.