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How to Scan More Than Just Your C: Drive for Spyware

This post provide virus protection tips to protect your computer. Have Spy Sweeper scan other hard drives or removable devices for spyware and adware

If you have several hard drive or hard drive partitions on your system, you may want Spy Sweeper to scan these drives, and not just your C: drive, for spyware and questionable content. To make this change:

1. Double-click the Spy Sweeper icon in your Windows taskbar. If it is not present, you can click "Spy Sweeper" in your "Programs" or "All Programs" menu.

2. Click the "Options" button on the left.

3. Click the "Sweep Options" button on top.

4. Underneath "Select Drives to Sweep", click the "pull-down".

5. Checkboxes will appear representing your available drives. Check the boxes next to the drives that you want scanned (swept) for spyware.

6. Click the "Apply" button.

Now, when you do a "Sweep Now", these other drives will be checked for spyware.

Written by magakos on August 19th, 2009 with no comments.
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How to remove Winweb Security 2008

This post provide spyware removal tips and Winweb Security 2008 is another malware that tries to get money disguised as a security tool. Winweb Security causes various problems instead of protecting a computer. It loads large amounts of pop-ups, it slows computer?s performance and it hijacks web browser. These are symptoms of computer parasite, so taking WinwebSecurity as anti-spyware and purchasing it is not recommended.This post provide steps to remove winweb Security 2008 from your computer

Steps to remove Winweb Security 2008 sfsd

Download and install Hizack This.
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis
Run HijackThis. Click on the Do a system scan only button.
Locate for these lines and place a checkmark against each of the following, if still present

O2 - BHO: BHOws Object - {D5DF7C9D-6069-4552-8B0C-D02A912FC889} - ws.dll (file missing)
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [adpws] ?C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\5689887B.exe?
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [{90BF8224-CD63-4081-A4C7-EF9A2CF6596F}] ?C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\[RANDOM_NAME].exe?
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RANDOM_NUMBERS] ?C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\[RANDOM_NUMBERS]\[RANDOM_NUMBERS].exe?
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [WinwebSecurity] ?C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WinwebSecurity\WinwebSecurity.exe?

Note: Few examples: [RANDOM_NUMBERS] - 764082672, 1612374962;RANDOM_NAME - 5828ADFF.exe, A974FA49.exe
Click on Fix Checked when finished and exit HijackThis.
Click Start, then Run and type regedit.exe.
Locate the following registry key and delete
Warning: Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run | WinwebSecurity
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run | adpws
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run | {90BF8224-CD63-4081-A4C7-EF9A2CF6596F}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{D5DF7C9D-6069-4552-8B0C-D02A912FC889}
Close the registry editor.

Locate the following files and delete:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\5689887B.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\A974FA49.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\5828ADFF.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WinwebSecurity
Download MalwareBytes Anti-malware (MBAM) http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php. Close all programs and Windows on your computer.
Double Click mbam-setup.exe to install the application. When the installation begins, keep following the prompts in order to continue with the installation process. Do not make any changes to default settings and when the program has finished installing, make sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes? Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes? Anti-Malware, then click Finish.
If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
Once the program has loaded, select ?Perform Quick Scan?, then click Scan.
When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
When disinfection is completed, a log will open in Notepad and you may be prompted to Restart.
Restart the computer.

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Written by magakos on June 18th, 2009 with no comments.
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