[Sussex] XP pain

[Mike Diack]

Once you get the problem fixed up on the XP box and they are clean, for 
goodness sake, switch all of the users over to limited accounts, not 
administrator.

As a test, after I'd cured my friends PCs I tried to get infected (just to 
check) and lo and behold, it can't happen if you don't run with elevated 
rights.
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Macdonald-Wallace" <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] XP pain

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 17:08 +0100, Paul Shepard wrote:
> Help needed.
>
>
>
> In windows XP, yes I know it serves me right, I have a symbol in the
> running program bar flashing between a yellow warning triangle and a
> blue circle with yellow X.
>
> This keeps giving me a system alert! which leads to an IE link to a
> spyware sales site at this address: http://www.spylocked.com/?aff=334
>
> AVG and AdAware show all clear and right click won’t say what it is.
>
> There appears to be nothing in the prog menu relating to it.
>
> How can I get rid of this please…

Google for "spylocked", its a piece of spyware that we've had to deal
with a lot at work.

There are various registry hacks to remove it, including some VBScripts
etc.

Cheers,

Matt

-- 


__
Sussex mailing list
Sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
E-mail Address: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sussex LUG Website: http://www.sussex.lug.org.uk/
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex