Virus Removal Tool

Is that advertising trying to sell you, one (or more) of these useless products? If it is one of these, then it is likely an infection called Smitfraud that is causing the phony warnings. It is scam advertising trying to swindle you. And a link to a free removal tool is down at the bottom.

AdwarePunisher,
AdwareSheriff,
AlphaCleaner,
Antispyware Soldier,
AntiVermeans,
AntiVermins,
AntiVerminser,
AntivirusGolden,
AVGold,
BraveSentry,
MalwareWipe,
MalwareWiped,
MalwaresWipeds,
MalwareWipePro,
MalwareWiper,
PestCapture,
PestTrap,
PSGuard,
quicknavigate.com,
Registry Cleaner,
Security iGuard,
Smitfraud,
SpyAxe,
SpyCrush,
SpyDown,
SpyFalcon
SpyGuard,
SpyHeal,
SpyHeals,
SpyLocked,
SpyMarshal,
SpySheriff,
SpySoldier,
Spyware Vanisher,
Spyware Soft Stop,
SpywareLocked,
SpywareQuake,
SpywareKnight,
SpywareSheriff,
SpywareStrike,
Startsearches.net,
TitanShield Antispyware,
Trust Cleaner,
UpdateSearches.com,
Virtual Maid,
VirusBlast,
VirusBurst,
Win32.puper,
WinAntiSpyPro
WinHound

If so, then you most likely have a serious Smitfraud infection and a free removal tool called SmitFraudFix with the removal procedure is here:
http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/SmitfraudFix_En.php

More infomation and another free removal tool called RogueFix can be found here:
http://www.internetinspiration.co.uk/roguefix.htm

Most "All-Purpose" malware apps such as AVG, Norton, Spybot etc unfortunatly can not remove or even detect this vile pest called Smitfraud.

Good luck.

i had to wipe the hard drive clean…go to best buy or the geek squad

Adaware from lavasoft is a great program indeed and included in this free tool.Give it a try.
Anti-spyware program combines up to six popular engines to maximize removal effectiveness.

Features in Hitman Pro (translated from Dutch):

- Installs and downloads automatically external antispyware software.
- Hitman Pro AntiSpyware with heuristics checks important system and register values or to this processes have been coupled which do not make themselves in the correct manner (or not at all) confessed. This is a common case for many well-known spyware, viruses and Trojan horses are found.
- Uses versions bought of possible person present of external antispywaresoftware (such as Ad-Aware and Spy Sweeper).
- Limit Internet-toepassingen well-known with SurfRight the system rights of such as Internet Explorer, Outlook Express or Microsoft Office Outlook and MSN knife-narrower ones limiting as much as possible to contagion by to misleiding.
- Automatically the external antispywaresoftware serve. Carries out inspections, removes automatically found spyware and places protection against malicious activeX besturingselementen.
- Automatically the est updates download (without Hitman pro the user this frequently handmatig must do).
- External antispywaresoftware are configured automatically for the best result.
- Possibility to take part in the fighting against spyware by anonymous spywarestatistieken at uploaden to the Hitman pro web server. Statistics realtime on the Hitman are reflected pro Internet site.
- Generates of all carried out actions report so that the user gets a clear picture concerning contagion and protection.
- A number of Internet Explorer-instellingen checks so that this browser cannot knowledge of the user install without software.

Well, depending on how long this has been going on, it may be too late to suggest this, but in XP, you could try a system restore on a date when you first recollect the problem *not* happening. That would pretty much clear out any registry entries that the malicious code has inserted to cause the spyware to start up with your computer.

However, System Restore will undo any other program installations that you’ve made to your computer since the problem started happening, so hopefully it hasn’t been happening for so long that you can’t safely return to a restore point.

I’m guessing you tried Spybot… Ouch! Don’t kick me for suggesting another download… it’s just that I’ve had great success with Spybot, but no solution is perfect, because hackers will continue to work around the programs. Sometimes it just takes time for the spyware folks to release updates… just like anti-virus programs need updates once they find a cure for newer viruses.

When this pop-up occurs, right click on it to get the properties. Then go to your "Control Panel" from your start menu, next to "Add or Remove Programs".
Look very carefully at the programs to see if there is something there that matches.

My husband had a real pesky adware the other day, in spite of using McAfee and having it up-to-date and also SpyBot <which I recommend-it’s free>, and running both of these checks through several times, we went into the control panel and found the problem. I did look up the "property" listed from the pop-up on google to see what others said about it. We had to go from Add or Remove to the adware site to get the d### thing off, but it did finally go!

It is frustrating! Good Luck!

If you get Spy Bot, you need to download updates weekly or so. Then scan and remove problems and finally immunize. I use this on my daughter’s computer and my own and we’ve stayed clean, by and large.
I also use AVG free anti-virus. It’s been great.

Keep Scanning again and again using different Spyware Programs

All the Best