[Mark Bennett]

My computer is slow at login and has some spyware symptoms. I ran MS
Antispyware and it returned nothing. I ran Spybot Search and Destroy and it
returned two items WildTangent and AdRoarPlugin. It was able to fix
WildTangent, but couldn't do anyting with AdRoarPlugin. Why didn't MS
Antispyware identify AdRoarPlugin and what can I do to get rid of it? Please
advise. Thanks.

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Mark Bennett" <MarkBennett@discussions.microsoft.com>

| My computer is slow at login and has some spyware symptoms. I ran MS
| Antispyware and it returned nothing. I ran Spybot Search and Destroy and it
| returned two items WildTangent and AdRoarPlugin. It was able to fix
| WildTangent, but couldn't do anyting with AdRoarPlugin. Why didn't MS
| Antispyware identify AdRoarPlugin and what can I do to get rid of it? Please
| advise. Thanks.


1) Download the following item...

Ad-aware SE (Free personal version)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

2) Update Adaware with latest definitions.
3) Disable System Restore
http://vil.nai.com/vil/SystemHelpDocs/DisableSysRestore.htm
4) Reboot your PC into Safe Mode
5) Using Ad-aware SE, perform a Full Scan of your platform and clean/delete
any parasites found.
6) Restart your PC and perform a "final" Full Scan of your platform using Adaware
7) Re-enable System Restore and re-apply any System Restore preferences,
(e.g. HD space to use suggested 400 ~ 600MB),
8) Reboot your PC.
9) Create a new Restore point


* * * Please report back your results * * *

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

[Shenan Stanley]

Mark Bennett wrote:
> My computer is slow at login and has some spyware symptoms. I ran MS
> Antispyware and it returned nothing. I ran Spybot Search and Destroy and
> it
> returned two items WildTangent and AdRoarPlugin. It was able to fix
> WildTangent, but couldn't do anything with AdRoarPlugin. Why didn't MS
> Antispyware identify AdRoarPlugin and what can I do to get rid of it?
> Please
> advise.

Why didn't MS AntiSpyware identify it?
Could be because it is MS AntiSpyware "Beta".

I would suggest asking/commenting on that in the newsgroup for such things
from the download page for MS AntiSpyware Beta:

Also, no one Antispyware application can do it all - yet. I suggest Spybot
Search and Destroy, Lavasoft AdAware, SpywareBlaster and IE-SpyAd to
scan/clean/immunize against malware.

Lavasoft AdAware (Free and up)
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/atdn )

Spybot Search and Destroy (Free!)
http://www.safer-networking.net/en/download/index.html
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/atdk )

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner (Free!)
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate3 )

SpywareBlaster (Free!)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate6 )

IE-SPYAD (Free!)
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate7 )

CWShredder (Free!)
http://www.softbasket.com/download/s_8114.shtml

Hijack This! (Free)
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
( Tutorial: http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.com/ )

ToolbarCop (Free!)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm

Browser Security Tests
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/BrowserSecurity/

Popup Tester
http://www.popuptest.com/

The Cleaner (49.95 and up)
http://www.moosoft.com/

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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