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To: JoeSixPack1
Spyaxe is a "RAT", not adware so to speak and not a virus.

Spyware and viruses are two different animals. Generally- viruses are about control and destruction, and spyware is about money; E.G getting ads in your face and tracking your browsing to see what ads are most likely to get you to spend money- and then it puts them in your face.

I haven't fought Spyaxe in particular, but now that it is becoming more widespread- I will 'contaminate' a test unit and play with it.

64 posted on 12/06/2005 9:27:16 PM PST by Riley ("Bother" said Pooh, as he fired the Claymores.)
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To: Riley

There is an embedded file named msearchnet.exe or something real close to that naming that is the root problem. Undeletable through medium powered attack tools as stated throughout these freeper threads and system protected against simple deletion, but not uncurable.

I went after the file through DOS and was rebuffed twice, so being the excitable type and not wanting to play with it I cursed and reloaded.

I first cleared my task mgr of it. Then the embedded program files in sys dirs. Then it regenerated. I isolated the above file, but like I said, by that time I was into it and close to a cure I needed my blood pressure medicine and went a different route.

Weekly norton ghost backups are a wonderful thing. :-)


69 posted on 12/06/2005 9:36:38 PM PST by JoeSixPack1
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