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Swizzor

Old 28th June 2006 | 10:37
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Swizzor

Hi,
My daughter has managed to get her PC infected with the Swizzor Trojan downloader, Does any one have any ideas for removal? Adaware and spybot dont seem to find it,
Cheers.
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Old 28th June 2006 | 13:14
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Devlin.
Which Anti-virus are you running?....
This particular trojan is a nasty little bugger. You will need to disable System Restore before you attempt to remove as it can regenerate itself from here.
Once this has been done, do a full system scan (assuming the Anti-V you are running has found it, & it should be removed. Restart before you reactivate System restore .
According to Spybot themselves, that particular program can detect & remove this spyware/trojan so do an update from them & re-run With the system restore OFF.
I know its a little vague but hope it helps.
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Old 28th June 2006 | 15:06
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Visit:
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols3.shtml
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Old 29th June 2006 | 07:55
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Thanks Chaps,
Apparently if you know where it lives you can just delete it, so I'll have a mooch around.and I've put a block to the website it uses in my hosts file.
DBTL,
Cheers will try it.
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Old 29th June 2006 | 17:12
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Don`t forget to disable System Restore before you restart .
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Old 1st July 2006 | 09:22
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Sorted it,
It was in a folder called cprogram files\adverts\uninst
Deleted and all is well,
got another problem now though, Adaware locks up when it reaches the registry address-hotkey local software.
Any ideas?
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