Thursday, May 14, 2009

Spyware Alert: Scareware

My recommendations for removing this little bug.

Turn off system restore
Kill all iexplore
Uninstall all java version 5

Search and remove the following from registy
{AFD4AD01-58C1-47DB-A404-FBE00A6C5486}
{BBD4551A-9B23-41cd-9BCD-818AA2DA7B63}
{8E3C68CD-F500-4A2A-8CB9-132BB38C3573}
helper.dll (only from c:\program files\common)
iehelper.dll (only from c:\windows\system32)

Delete files
c:\program files\common\helper.dll
c:\program files\common\helper.dll
c:\windows\systemgard.exe
c:\windows\system32\iehelper.dll

install most recent java ver. 6.13 from http://java.com/en/