vista anti spyware 2010

[Thomas93]

this is installed on a friends PC, what is the easiest way to remove this as scanning doesnt seem to do the trick!

+ rep for anyone whpo fixes it.

 

[villej]

That program seems to be spyware itself, so I would try to download and run a real antispyware program like Malwarebytes Antimalware: http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5756

 

[thevictor390]

That, or Spybot, or Ad-Aware.... try as many as you can. There might also be a manual removal method...

.... like this http://www.myantispyware.com/2010/0...are-2010-vista-antivirus-2010-vista-guardian/

 

[Jacobfox]

Use Malwarebytes.

 

[LeMans GTR]

SuperAntiSpyware.

Works a dream

 

[Thomas93]

Alright, I will get her to bring the offending laptop roud on Monday. Tried Malwrebytes (or something like that) but had to leave before it had finished scanning.

Cheers!

 

[awdrifter]

Boot into safe mode, then run a scan with a real anti-virus. I suggest NOD32 with Potentially Unwanted Program detection on. It should be able to detect and remove the program.

 

[AiR]

Any respectable antivirus should clear those out right away. Symantec has more on the modus operandi of these fake spyware scanners.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs9XG3ZGm7A[/YOUTUBE]

 

[thevictor390]

It's always a good sign to see a comma in a U.S. price :lol:

 

[AiR]

I think in that video it showed the attackers using a ukrainian server so it's probably that they don't know US uses dots instead of commas, I myself didnt notice it.

Since I'm the resident Symantec whore I'm going to post yet another video (lest we should create a "scary stuff that goes on on the internet"-thread) about some of the stuff that goes on out there. I posted a similar video in the random thoughts thread, that was about Zeus, an impressive botnet with 24/7 customer service provided by the authors and an impressive updating pace to counter antivirus definitions.

This one is another demonstration of a toolkit avalible (Ghostnet, comes with a very nice GUI), only this one also includes advertisement footage from the creators. That part comes on at ~3:35 and it's pretty scary stuff.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz-gg8hxaVQ[/YOUTUBE]