Comments on: How to Remove Antivirus 2009, Spyware Guard 2008 and Other Malware

By: List My Search.com

List My Search.com — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:54:12 +0000

Malwarebytes is an amazing piece of software, will definatley recommend to my blog readers

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:28:24 +0000

It sounds as though you may have one of the variants sarah mentioned. When I find some time, I need to see if I can do further research and find a way to remove these variants that Malwarebytes fails to handle.

By: Albarnes

Albarnes — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:37:09 +0000

Can anyone help please. it seems antivirus2009 has infected my desktop. i have run some scanners including malwarebytesAM but it hasnt removed everything and now comes up clean. i downloaded and ran 'spyhunter' which found 5 'virtumonde' infections. i still get the antivirus2009 google tip on the google page and also regularly get blocked unneccessarilly. what can i do next or is it too complicated for someone as rubbish at computers as me??

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:49:35 +0000

There is a certain flavor of antivirus2009 that mbam will not detect.

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:05:43 +0000

That's quite a dilemma. Perhaps there is some other malware is preventing the scanners from being able to properly disinfect the system.

By: tim

tim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:33:56 +0000

Yes, my pc has the antivirus 2009 spyware and it appears Malwarebytes is not detecting anything malicious. I've also run Smitfraudfix, Combofix, Ad-Aware all to no avail.

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:26:08 +0000

You should not have any problems with malware or rogueware infections. Did
you have problems to begin with?

By: tim

tim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:52:31 +0000

After performing scan with malwarebytes, it did not detect any malicious files. What now?

By: Brani

Brani — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:07:37 +0000

Thanx a lot buddy! This really works and I appreciate sharing this info with others.
Brani from Slovakia

By: GeekLad

GeekLad — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:48:09 +0000

Excellent, I'm glad to hear renaming the executable did the trick and allowed you to install Malwarebytes. I may have to write up a quick blog post about that, but I'm glad the info is at least captured here in the comments.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:20:33 +0000

Thank you so much for this information…..every word of it had come true….although i didn't add the stuff….the pop ups continued…and the fake windows appeared…this page allowed me to know it was fake…excellent advice…thanks a heap…will come back and let you know the update after using the malwarebytes anti-malware…i had this scan already going when i read this…found it on What the Tech…formeerly Tom Coyote's page…God Bless…and say a prayer for me…it's very aggravating…i think we got it from my daughter downloading games to play…Rhonie

By: habib

habib — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:37:06 +0000

Worked by renaming the excutable file name and ran it in safe mode. Thanks a lots

By: Mats

Mats — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:18:07 +0000

I just run “fast scanning” and I say as Mak, Youssra and Habib,
thank you sooo much,worked perfect,thx !!!
Mats

By: Gecks69

Gecks69 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:12:47 +0000

1. with Superantispyware.com free download. Download on another uninfected computer. copy Superspyware install (.exe) file to infected computer and change the name of the install file (something.exe). Run this new file and change the name of the install location to
C:programfileSupertemp | Once this installation is complete, browse to that folder. I changed the name of the Superantispyware.exe file to Supertemp.exe (May not be necessary). There should also be a file in this folder named:bootsafe.exe! Run this application to restart your
computer in Safe Mode - Directory Services Repair. Once the computer restarts in this mode then browse back to the Supertemp folder and run the Supertemp.exe. It should now work and start scanning. Mine detected about 88 infections but you will specifically see the 7 or so files of spyware guard 2008. Reboot when the scan is done and you should be good to go!
I did not do definition updates during this! I did not want to access the internet during this process!
Note: The file name changes are required because the spyware guard 2009 won’t let them install/run. This is for spyware guard 2009 even though it detects 2008 and 2008/B.

By: Gecks69

Gecks69 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:11:31 +0000

By: habib

habib — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:19:39 +0000

no error nothing. I tried to run it from the command line and don't see anything, no error message nothing, it quit without displaying anything. I tried to run on safe mode same result.

By: habib

habib — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:34:04 +0000

you were able to start the executable without any problem?
thx

By: habib

habib — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:17:47 +0000

I copied the mbam-setup.exe Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware binary in to my machine and i was not able to run it It looks like the spywareguard is blocking any excutable to be ran. I copied also SUPERAntiSpyware.exe and sdsetup.exe and was not able to start them. Any help will be appreciated. Thx

By: Youssra

Youssra — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:36:05 +0000

Thank you sooooooooooo much
i was about to go mad .. that was perfect

By: Mak

Mak — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:14:24 +0000

WORKED PERFECT!!!!