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God damn you, fraud antiviruses.
Caution:
I loving hate anyone who helped contribute to this. It's been stuck on my system forever, and the last visit to the shop didn't fix it.
I just ran a scan with SpyBot on my computer, and it found two piece of stuff programs it can't get rid of. SpyBot is a great program; it scanned my entire system and got rid of everything else except two things; Windows PolicePro, and Windows AntiVirus (WAV is fraud but SB got rid of it).
The last time my computer crashed was because of stupid WPP. When I got it back from the shop, I ran a scan and it came up clean. A few days later, I ran another scan with SpyBot (like I do every other day) and it found WPP again. I noticed it wasn't in my memory or system, so I just removed it manually since AVG, SpyBot, or WindowsCare couldn't. Deleted it, scanned, and it was gone.
But, today, I scanned, and it's back. I haven't gone anywhere I did before (I don't watch stuff) and AVG never caught it. It's back and it's embedded in my system, where I can't get access to remove it manually.
What should I do? I've done all I can think of, but some of you are rather tech savvy.
zz_tophat:
Google: rootkit
Inv3rted:
If it's really that stubborn, back up all of your files and then reformat.
Caution:
--- Quote from: zz_tophat on October 16, 2009, 09:43:28 AM ---Google: rootkit
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Am I looking at the download or the site?
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on October 16, 2009, 09:45:45 AM ---If it's really that stubborn, back up all of your files and then reformat.
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I'll probably have to soon.
zz_tophat:
--- Quote from: Caution on October 16, 2009, 09:49:34 AM ---Am I looking at the download or the site?
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You didn't google did you?
I have yet to see a single tech problem not be solved by a trip to google.
But just to make it easy, here is the first result for that search and what I was hoping you'd find:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit