For a little over the past 24 hours, I have been dealing with an uninvited anti-spyware that came disguised as a "needed media reader" for some pictures that I wanted to download. (OK, so the pictures were porn.
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Instead I recieved warnings of viruses and spies that needed to be removed for which I "needed" to download their software. Instead i tried running the Norton, Spybot, and Ad- aware that I already have.
Norton determined that I had some Office 2003 to update - thankx, but that's not solving this problem
Ad-Aware found nothing
Spybot found files under PestTrap that ended with "pmsngr.exe" and removed them. the problem was that the warnings continued. I also recieved critical warnings of a "spyware.cyberlog-x" that was effecting my sytem.
Manually, I went to "My Computer" to remove the anti-virusware. This helped but not completely.
After several back-and-forths to Spybot (3x with the same result) and using search engines for the keywords, I finally discovered that the key file giving me the "critical warning" with a Yellow triangle/exclation point icon, was located in a File directory named "WinMediaCodec".
IF ANYBODY FINDS A DIRECTORYWITH THIS NAME ... REMOVE IT!:unch:
Removal of this directory - which may require rebooting - will remove this plague of a virus disguised as anti-virus programming. If you want to use windows search program under my files, the key word/ or part of a word is "Codec"
Having removed this file directory, All Systems Normal!:grinthumb
) Instead I recieved warnings of viruses and spies that needed to be removed for which I "needed" to download their software.
Instead i tried running the Norton, Spybot, and Ad- aware that I already have. Norton determined that I had some Office 2003 to update - thankx, but that's not solving this problem
Ad-Aware found nothing
Spybot found files under PestTrap that ended with "pmsngr.exe" and removed them. the problem was that the warnings continued. I also recieved critical warnings of a "spyware.cyberlog-x" that was effecting my sytem.
Manually, I went to "My Computer" to remove the anti-virusware. This helped but not completely.
After several back-and-forths to Spybot (3x with the same result) and using search engines for the keywords, I finally discovered that the key file giving me the "critical warning" with a Yellow triangle/exclation point icon, was located in a File directory named "WinMediaCodec".
IF ANYBODY FINDS A DIRECTORYWITH THIS NAME ... REMOVE IT!:unch:
Removal of this directory - which may require rebooting - will remove this plague of a virus disguised as anti-virus programming. If you want to use windows search program under my files, the key word/ or part of a word is "Codec"
Having removed this file directory, All Systems Normal!:grinthumb
