sUBs:

i had one silly n00bie question here, about the eZula TopText. Removed it using search & destroy. even restarted the pc (as directed by S&D). the adware/spyware seems to be gone, but the directory in c:\program files still exists and cannot be deleted.

1. does this mean i am still infected? (thorough search + scan and no ezula running tasks in the services)

2. any way to remove the annoying files that end w/ *.tmp? i tried many software but still cannot remove the annoying drectory.

thanx

edit: problem 1 and 2 solved. my trust bitdefender deleted the *.tmp files, and thus letting me delete the annoying directory. however, new prob arises:

In the add/remove dialogue, the TOPTEXT, MYSEARCH and SEARCH ASSISTANT still exist.

1. does this mean I am still INFECTED?

2. can i just delete it from the registry entries manually?

3. any way to remove it w/o using registry edit?

edit : PROBLEM SOLVED. multiple software used to deal all this.

sheesh... just ONE wrong click, and i pent 2 hours cleaning each and every parasites... how did this happen? my 8 months w/o spyware record has been busted

This post has been edited by lucifah: Aug 24 2005, 12:57 AM

sUBs: problems all solved. thanx to your guides and tips.

time taken to be infected: less than 1 minute
time to clean: 2+ hours

here are the list of softwares that i've used:

1. BitDefender (the main s/w that alerted me 2 hours ago and stopped system wide infection)
2. Spybot Search & Destroy (sUBs recommendation)
3. Spyware Blaster (again, thanx to sUBs)
4. AdAware (long time forgotten s/ware tucked inside my hard drive)
5. RegCleaner (the registered version by the great Juno) - this is used to delet all the annoying add/remove lists


identified spyware:

1. 180solutions
2. search assistant
3. my search
4. ezula toptext


This post has been edited by lucifah: Aug 24 2005, 01:03 AM