Comments on: Antivirus 2009 Spyware Scam

By: janis horsley

janis horsley — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:49:38 +0000

I had a friend come over to combat spyware thwarts (which included massive porno background display as well as disabling me from using my Dell). He installed ESET. Things seemed to be ok for a couple days, but …

I was still having Dell printer problems, called support, and they kept me on phone for 3 hours via India. Looks like they actually installed undesired spyware, charged me $140 tried getting me to buy more warranty on windows software and never actually fixed printer, still not working. You might think I'm stupid (sort of but this was my husband's computer. He died last year and I'm trying to use his elaborate (to me) technology. I might be too 20th century; kind of easily duped and don't know shite from shinola.

Printer has popups to get me to buy toner and won't function, and hey I had already bought and installed the effin toner.

Janis

By: Nelson

Nelson — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:47:10 +0000

Hi Kris. Most likely the virus is disabling write permissions in your computer. There is a script that re-enable permissions in the registry, search in this blog for it. Let me know if you need further help, I might be able to help through email.

Regards,

Nelson

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:27:58 +0000

I get to the registry, but it doesn't let me delete the files:
HKEY_USERSS-1-5-21-1172441840-534431857…..

(Cannot delete : Error while deleting key.)

Then the virus system alert comes back up.

Any recs to get around this or am I hosed?

By: Star Carlton

Star Carlton — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:04:25 +0000

There is no way to really track what Spywareblaster is blocking – they should have a section that shows what has actually been blocked to know it is working.