Weird spyware icon on taskbar.

SlipSlice · Jun 29, 2007

I was on the internet today, and didn't have Avast on, and when i have it on nothing ever goes wrong, but i had it turned off because i turn it off for gaming, and forgot about turning it back off to get on the internet, and i got a pop up, and it gave me a virus or 2. Which those virus's should be gone no, i ran 2 virus scans, and it doesn't find nothing now.. I ran adware scans there good to.
Here is what is still on my taskbar though, and i can't exit it, when i click it takes me to an adware download program website. Any suggestions on what this is, and where it is coming from?

Screen shot:http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/7195/spywareiconrz4.png
i know its just a screen shot of what it looks like and that might now help u much, but when i click it, it takes me to this site(http://www.spylocked.com/?aff=334)..to download spywarelocker or something..its not a virus its just windows giving warning me to download a program..but i no longer have stuff on my computer and it won't go away...

so can anybody help me out here? :wtf:

-slip

russianboy · Jun 29, 2007

try out spybot-search & destroy.

oh I see, you have it.

well, go to the add/ remove programs, see if anything fishy is in there.

Clear cookies, cache etc (they can sometimes lurk in there).

type in run box msconfig, look for suspicious start-up proggies

show me your hijackthis log.

Read this aswell. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic85376.html

W1zzard · Jun 29, 2007

it's amazing how you could make a 640x480 png that's 1.5 MB in size.

as uncompressed RGB the file would be 921,600 bytes

SlipSlice · Jun 29, 2007

russianboy said:
try out spybot-search & destroy.

Thanks, but Ive tried that and it isn't showing any errors, ive deleted all of them, i still get that thing though...

zekrahminator · Jun 29, 2007

Google Smitfraudfix.exe .

d44ve · Jun 29, 2007

zekrahminator said:
Google Smitfraudfix.exe .

Damn beat me to it!

I have had to clean 5 differant computers from 5 differant clients this week with that program.

Jess Stingray · Jun 29, 2007

Run Windows Defender. You'd be surprised at what it picks up.

DRDNA · Jun 29, 2007

AVGRootkit will get rid of it as well.

Ehstii · Jun 29, 2007

it could be contra virus 2.0

i just had a few PC's come in this week at my shop that i had to clean it from, ill link up the removal tool when i find it.

russianboy · Jun 29, 2007

Ha! I beat you all to it.

Its all in the link

petepete · Jun 29, 2007

the logo looks like its Microsoft telling you that you dont have an active firewall/antivirus up..

pete

nora.e · Jun 29, 2007

I've seen these befor when I used Avast. I't a pain in the ass to get rid of. It inbeds itself int the boot menue of your OS. try running a system recovery from a time befor you got it, see if that helps. I also changed my anti virus to Prevx 2. http://www.download.com/Prevx2/3000-2239_4-10699286.html and between that and Ad-Aware 2007, have not had any thing hijack my rig sence. I'd sugjest uninstalling Avast try the free month Prevx, see if that will sove your problem.

zekrahminator · Jun 29, 2007

If you're any good with command line, I suggest you give this a try.

Polaris573 · Jun 29, 2007

Please put software questions in the software sub-forum, not in hardware.

Jonnycat · Jun 29, 2007

petepete said:
the logo looks like its Microsoft telling you that you dont have an active firewall/antivirus up..

Yep

SlipSlice · Jun 30, 2007

Well thx for all of ur help guys, i used Smitfraudfix.exe, because that was the first best suggetion and it was fixed in a flash. So thx to all im sur the others that u all listed were good as well.
-slip

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