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December 17th, 2007

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AdwareRemover2007 Removal Instructions

AdwareRemover2007 Descriptions:

AdwareRemover, also known as AdwareRemover2007, is counterfeit anti-spyware / anti-malware software. SpyShredder usually installed itself onto your PC without your permission, through Trojan, virus and fake software. Spy Shredder will display fake security alerts or notifications to trick user to buy the paid version of Spy Shredder. It is very important to remove all the components of Spy Shredder and all the malware and trojans that it might have come bundle with (such as zlob.trojan, trojan.vundo and Trojan.Downloader)

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility

Manual Removal Instructions:

Stop SpyShredder Processes:
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AdwareRemover2007.exe

Unregister SpyShredder DLL Files:
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AdwareRemover20070.dll
AdwareRemover20071.dll
AdwareRemover20073.dll

Find and Delete these SpyShredder Files:
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AdwareRemover2007.exe
AdwareRemover2007.lic
AdwareRemover20070.ar
AdwareRemover20071.ar
AdwareRemover20070.dll

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Written by Karen on December 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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Trojan.Win32.StarField Removal Instructions

Trojan.Win32.StarField (also know as Trojan.Win32 or Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq) used to be a real virus, now fake anti-spyware software like IE Defender will display Trojan.Win32.StarField as their scan result to trick user to buy the fake anti-spyware program. The fake anti-spyware program usually get installed onto your PC without your permission, through Trojan, malware and virus (or you could get it by installing a fake video codec). fake anti-spyware will display the Trojan.Win32.StarField fake system alerts or fake security alerts to trick user to buy the Paid Version of the fake anti-spyware program.

The possible error messages are either “Your browser was hijacked by Trojan.Win32.StarField”, or “Your browser was hijacked by Trojan.Win32.Agent.akk”. As discussed previously, these messages are completely misleading. You can safely remove Trojan.Win32.StarField by following our manual removal instructions if you are familiar with regedit and dll files. Good luck!

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility

Manual Trojan.Win32.StarField Removal Instructions:

Unregister Trojan.Win32.StarField DLL Files:
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windivx.dll
vipextqtr.dll
ecxwp.dll
stream32a.dll
websrc32.dll
msvideo.dll
pmspl.dll

Find and Delete these Trojan.Win32.StarField Files:
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windivx.dll
ecxwp.dll
stream32a.dll
websrc32.dll
msvideo.dll
pmspl.dll
popnetnpr.dll
ttvbonvgl.dll
ssqppol.dll
blopenvxdt.dll
esent9.dll
urqnomm.dll
mlljh.dll
cjvy.dll
vtssp.dll
gqagksr.dll

Remove Trojan.Win32.StarField Registry Values:
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A19926CE-CA09-9EAE-7806-B9891B5461C8
D17CFF74-A19C-4C36-821A-E074E4F889CA
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15EB9F40-D775-4463-B75B-8687B3C66BB7
6D64B03B-3B93-4AF2-BFC6-01264A4C7F2A
6A719349-BDF5-4268-9019-4ACA0C2562D2
B3E45A9B-7756-46A2-AB14-90175CD374F9
69B98C68-D2B8-4A4E-9CB7-E85B6F3A7014
31E3F653-ED88-4355-B83E-FB263CD355E3
202EBB90-ABD4-46CC-BB5A-4F0ECC67B331
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BBB05D9E-0297-404D-A6BF-D8F2876B84A6
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BBB05D9E-0297-404D-A6BF-D8F2876B84A6
F9EAAA11-DF98-4615-A2C7-7D03C86A6BE9
A19926CE-CA09-9EAE-7806-B9891B5461C8
2108b3c96d285f8e199d0b6ec7900493
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6f973c2872167d995f43d5f6c826b0d9
4c6b3b935e9334d0d3228d1b3a5cc414
90ee460548431a21cd75e63b280801e6
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57061de6849138f4a8d4ed7302a10cd9
197feaf08c364b566ce4738a3d8fbeb5
39d36d9a908aa2073344c55fc40289fb
26d1f64e03534cde99b0973289b2e20d
4f34bc2ae8c5c42ff6b8381e5781c03e
69396cb178a3a5283b62dd0cd6f0be7a
39d36d9a908aa2073344c55fc40289fb
5469c3ee08fbcc2569d26c1930b682e0
2108b3c96d285f8e199d0b6ec7900493

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.

You can also download the free version of Avira Antivir to remove the spyware (update)

Trojan.Win32.StarField Variants: Trojan.Win32, Trojan.Win32.agent.akk and Trojan.Win32.Obfuscated.gx

Written by Sam on December 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq Removal Instructions

Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq (also know as Trojan.Win32 or Trojan.Win32.agent.akk) used to be a real virus, now fake anti-spyware software like IE Defender will display Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq as their scan result to trick user to buy the fake anti-spyware program. The fake anti-spyware program usually get installed onto your PC without your permission, through Trojan, malware and virus (or you could get it by installing a fake video codec). fake anti-spyware will display the Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq fake system alerts or fake security alerts to trick user to buy the Paid Version of the fake anti-spyware program.

The possible error messages are either “Your browser was hijacked by Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq”, or “Your browser was hijacked by Trojan.Win32.Agent.akk”. As discussed previously, these messages are completely misleading. You can safely remove Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq by following our manual removal instructions if you are familiar with regedit and dll files. Good luck!

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility

Manual Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq Removal Instructions:

Unregister Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq DLL Files:
(Learn how to do this)
windivx.dll
ecxwp.dll
stream32a.dll
vipextqtr.dll

Find and Delete these Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq Files:
(Learn how to do this)
windivx.dll
ecxwp.dll
stream32a.dll
vipextqtr.dll
gebca.dll
bkfgnqhm.dll
enhtb.dll
cpwvehup.dll
ddcdedd.dll
advpac.dll
tdlRMS.dll
lcxmehhg.dll
orkbobob.dll
tuvttrr.dll

Remove Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq Registry Values:
(Learn how to do this)
bb5be1c92c299a1c6bcfe67655b0a0c7
69c9be662f7f284aae171adeb136cb24
1bc5752bd72f44f004d9f061dd7f9e00
3ba096caa45ab117721e725079cc53a1
40613dee6ad5fec910606c25b25262fd
1057a2dcd13130963be0a51c41dc4d1c
9a9f57899a28547b04fc2da3700c95cf
7a329404de21925daacbbbee093ff6dc
2982068d063848ddb0b8029750411a84
fe6e6a62a572e84e9eaee12eb3ee8a2b
bcf3a381bbe26d9c1ec24bac8b18f567
9ceecf911241c9890541167edf53739f
7d4b39e4cab018496e2fe9bf9c3234b2
396955766b2e512bc3545a24bc485dbe

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility.

You can also download the free version of Avira Antivir to remove the spyware (update)

Trojan.Win32.Startpage.fq Variants: Trojan.Win32, Trojan.Win32.agent.akk and Trojan.Win32.Obfuscated.gx

Written by Karen on December 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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Generate a System Health Report in Windows Vista

In Windows Vista, users can have an extensive System Health Report generated for them in helping troubleshoot performance and reliability issues on their PC or to see how healthy their PC is in general. For the average user, this probably won’t mean anything. But for me, I’m the type of user that really likes having the ability to create reports that tell me about my PC so I was really excited to find this ability in Windows Vista.

This evening I decided to generate a report on my main desktop PC for the first time and see what it says. To have a System Health Report generated:

  1. Open Start Menu.
  2. Right-click on “Computer” and click “Properties”.
  3. In the System Properties window, click on your Windows Experience Index rating.
  4. In the Performance Information and Tools window, under “Tasks” in the left-hand options pane click “Advanced Tools”.
  5. Under Advanced Tools window choose “Generate a system health report” at the bottom.

The report generates after about 60 seconds of testing. Here is my System Health Report I generated this evening:

As you can see, any sort of errors or warnings for your system are displayed first at the top of the report. You can see from my report, my HP Photosmart C5100 Printer is disabled giving an error. This is because I recently switched my HP Photosmart C5100 from being connected to my PC via USB to being a network printer. I can ignore this error. Under warnings, my CPU was being consumed more than 50% by the EncoderUI.exe process. This is Microsoft Expression Encoder. I was encoding a HD video using Microsoft Expression Encoder at the time of running the System Health Check Report. Nothing to worry about there. Once the encoding was finished, I re-ran the report and my CPU usage dropped to an acceptable level.

In generating the System Health Report, a series of basic system and performance checks are completed. You can also check out your Software and Hardware configurations as well. The information in these tests is pretty detailed. Under Network and TCP you can see outbound and inbound IP traffic for example from when the report was generated or the exact amount of memory being used by processes.

You have the option to save your report as an HTML document if you would like. For me, if I need to save a report, I just print to an XPS document.

For folks using the latest version of Windows Live OneCare, you also have the ability to pull up monthly reports displaying information on PC scans, your monthly subscription, and firewall protection. By default, after a monthly tune-up is run your monthly report is displayed.

Written by Brandon LeBlanc on December 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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