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.

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[zz_tophat]

Google: rootkit

[Inv3rted]

If it's really that stubborn, back up all of your files and then reformat.

[Caution]

Google: rootkit

Am I looking at the download or the site?

If it's really that stubborn, back up all of your files and then reformat.

I'll probably have to soon.

[zz_tophat]

Am I looking at the download or the site?

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

[DaSord213]

Happened to my cousin, he was listening to music on a site and somehow the virus installed itself and called it "Anti Virus Pro 2010." We've removed it in safe mode and it reinstalled itself. So handicapped.

[Nitramtj]

One time I got an msn virus, it was actually extremely fun removing it. I got to go into the registry, clear some values and then I made my own program that deleted the virus' files because it wouldn't let me through explorer or command prompt. I hope I get another chance to remove a stubborn virus again someday!

[Caution]

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

Yes, I Googled it. I wasn't sure if you were referring to the download at the top of one of the pages.

[zz_tophat]

Yes, I Googled it. I wasn't sure if you were referring to the download at the top of one of the pages.

If it is something you can't remove even during safemode then the only thing that could keep it hidden is a rootkit.

[(Hit Man)]

Reformat and backup your BL and stuffz, something said way before

[Rughugger]

Sometime those viruses will use your current antispyware to spread the infection. Short of a total reformat, I don't see you losing it any time soon.