Posted on 12/23/2008 3:44:00 AM PST by PJ-Comix
My computer has been infected with the Spyware Guard 2008 virus and now I can't get rid of it. Does anybody out there know of some way that I can get rid of this virus? Apparently a lot of people seem to be having problems with the same virus. I let someone else use my computer yesterday so perhaps that is when it got infected.
Format and reload is the only thing that worked for me.
Complete instructions:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/remove-spyware-guard-2008
Spyware Guard 2008 is a particularly insidious little bug that most spyware and virus protection software won’t detect. The only thing I found that could remove it was SuperAntiSpyware, and it took three tries to root out everything. Thankfully, the program is free. You can download it at http://www.superantispyware.com/.
Here is something I found on the Net. Not sure if it will work, but you can give it a try.
Go to Start/Control Panel/Display/Appearance and look for the file bg. Go to Search and under All files anf folders type in bg and voila! you will find bg.jpg and bg.bmp. Delete both files and you will have removed the last remnant of this vicious and nasty rogue application
Dude! This is the second time in 24 hours you’ve beat me (within a couple minutes or less) of posting the same exact thing.
Are you my long lost twin brother or something? Jeesh!
Accdg to one website (http://www.malwarehelp.org/spyware-guard-2008-analysis-and-removal-2008.html),
Superantispyware will remove it (http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispyware.html?rid=3596)
Another website:
http://www.xp-vista.com/spyware-removal/spyware-guard-2008-removal-instructions-spywareguard2008
You can try Malwarebytes - it depends on which variant you have.
They keep moving the location of the files and renaming them. Ultimately you may end up reformatting and reloading the machine though.
I can't believe the efforts the computer virus people use to mess with your computer. You would think they would put those skills to good use.
Trend-Micro is a worthless AV program. It is apparently good against some lightweights.
goto housecall.trendmicro.com
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As was said, it’ll get rid of most of the variants...
Save all of your stuff on an outside hard drvie, then use the restore disks, That is the last option. but I must say that I had to do that, over 50% of the time.
If you can still boot up, spend 30 or 40 bucks to back up your personal stuff, on an a hand held drive. if you can’t boot up, well, I can only suspect that your computer crashed upon trying to establiblish Microsofts SP2. My computer crashed four times trying to do that. Absolute solution, purchase a cheap serial port thing to back up tour stuff, disconnect it, then follow the Mfr’s thing to place your computer to an out of the “out of the box state”, if you have patience, you can do this. I’m saying if your off of the internet, you cant access the internet, you can’t be infecetd. Good luck.
It sounds easier to download and run that superantisypware.
The glory days of virii (have I dated myself with that word?) have long past.
Nowadays, most of the malware is produced to generate revenue.
prisoner6
SuperAnti is a great program. I use it to weed out stuff every day, and it keeps the PC running smoothly.
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