Trojan won't die

I'd find someone who knows how to either remove all malware or wipe the drive and reinstall the operating system, and pay them to do it. You might also pay them to show you how not to use Internet Explorer but install an alternative. And also how to run as a user instead of an administrator (if your operating system allows it).

If you had an illness you couldn't get rid of then you'd call a doctor wouldn't you?

If you're not going to call a doctor then a combination of safe mode and the following may help, but no guarantee.

Try running Spybot in windows safe mode.

It looks to me like you probably have registry entries pointing to files that do not exist (didn't get downloaded/installed or were deleted). Try a registry cleaner that will remove entries that are broken and see if NoAdware still complains.

Clean with SpySweeper (webroot.com) and flush your reg with tuneup (tune-up.com).

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Clean with SpySweeper (webroot.com) and flush your reg with tuneup (tune-up.com).

Nosguy(at)comcast(dot)net Let's kill Spyware everywhere... I recommend:

I had something similar a day or two ago, with some adware that adaware couldnt remove. it turns out that this was because the processes respawned themselves when killed. After some playing around, I found I could kill them using the task manager's "processes" tab.

Find one of the offending processes, right click on it and "kill process tree". Adaware then worked.

Having said this: I *DONT* know how *YOUR* tronjan will respond to this. It's is *JUST* possible that it will do nasty things. So you have been warned. If you want to try it - dont blame me if it blows up in your face.

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Make sure restore is off and find somthing which cleans the registry to remove all the bad pointers , I use fixit , then if all else fails work out where the file is ( only works in fat 32) then dos floppy boot and remove it or you can drop the drive in another well protected machine and kill it that way if you dont want to format . also try the dos floppy boot and run fdisk /mbr your fat file may be corrupt. good luck

I would guess that you have gotten an email worm known variously as laris, ariss, assiral-B or Assiral.c. This is a relatively recent but widespread worm. The nasty thing about this worm is that it downloads one or more secondary worms (including Ist.Bar aka Downloader.1st.Bar) and disables antivirus and anti-spyware software.

I think Symantec also has a removal procedure for it on their web site.