Spydawn crap, ever had it?

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INTELCRAZY

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Anybody ever had that Spydawn infection? I remember when I got it off of a supposed Active X control, thanks to PC eye, he found me something to remove it. If I remember correctly, it was called a Smit Fix or something like that. If you know what I am talking about, gimme a link, plz. I am gonna put it on a disc and throw it in my toolkit.


Thanks
 
You are fortunate I happen to be in the area I think? You could have easily pmed on this one or simply ran a quick search. The link here offers not only the link for the SmitFraudFix tool but some others that leave you wondering? http://www.2-spyware.com/articles/removal guides/92.html

The best results were seen when using one of the two manual removal methods with both using Killbox. With the second method HiJack This is used instead of the SmitFraudFix tool. Besides downloading the three main tools there you may want to save the link as well. That provides the information.
 
Don't feel too bad there. The new 500gb sata added in is already over half full with backups of things that will work on Vista as well as XP. I have run into a snags with the latest Ad-Aware 2007 beta hanging half way through a scan however. It works well on XP but now takes far longer for a quick scan. Ican imagine how it take for a full system scan with three hard drives here. :confused: :eek:
 
yeah what exactly does it do?

Also, "Del" I like your sig haha "just imagine your worst nightmare and downgrade once or twice"
 
It is fraud, basically, it installs as a trojan horse through Active X controls. It scares you into buying their spyware remover program, it gives constant pop-ups about you having viruses and that you need to remove them and the only way to remove the fake viruses is to buy their program. You will know if you have it, I knew something wasn't right. They try to fake an MSN security update, too, the web page to do that on didn't have the Windows logo everywhere so, I knew it wasn't real. Use that link to the Smit Fix PC eye just left, that is the fastest and easiest way to remove it, probably the best.
 
Darn, that's not what's on either of the computers here. :(

Thanks vonfeldt, problem is it's true unless the person reading it has a worse computer curse than I.
 
INTELCRAZY said:
It is fraud, basically, it installs as a trojan horse through Active X controls. It scares you into buying their spyware remover program, it gives constant pop-ups about you having viruses and that you need to remove them and the only way to remove the fake viruses is to buy their program. You will know if you have it, I knew something wasn't right. They try to fake an MSN security update, too, the web page to do that on didn't have the Windows logo everywhere so, I knew it wasn't real. Use that link to the Smit Fix PC eye just left, that is the fastest and easiest way to remove it, probably the best.
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That's a more commonly practiced gimic then people realize. But I get shot down when trying to explain why other sharewares do the same thing exact thing. Spyware Doctor, Webroot's Spy Sweeper, and others will point out that you have all this but not to buy the full version to see them removed. I get told "well AVG and Ad-Aware and other don't find anything while "blank" does find these 200+..." blah! blah! and they buy into it! :rolleyes: At least when Trend Micro's PC-cillin and others were tried out for the 30day or whatever trial period they proved their own worth without the con job!
 
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