I was surfing and came across this doozy of a bad bug. It goes nuts with your system. you keep getting a warning from your microsoft bullseye (if you have MS antispyware) telling you that you've been infected. Every time you click it you go to "spyaxe's" website.
From what I have read on sites after being infected and getting rid of it, Spyaxe is a fast growing malware that is truly nasty. I did a search to see if anyone else has posted anything about it, but noone had soooooo....
The infected balloon just keeps coming up.
Norton goes crazy, NOTHING I had seemed to even touch it.
This thing blocks websites (switching browsers tho worked), it truly seemed to take over.
What I did was went in removed it through the start. Did a quick search found
http://www.thex.com/rd/2005/11/26/firefox-spyaxe and went there. He tells you how to get rid of it, but Hell I don't even know how to get into safe mode. (His way listed at end of post, for those of you who know what to do and how.)
So I searched again, found Spyware Doctor did the scan, it found 127 nasties including Spyaxe. Now it cost $29.95 but had great reviews from what I could tell. I bought it..... wham bam everything including spyaxe is gone.
Anyone know about either? Is Spyware Doctor as good as it seems or am I a sucker for buying it?
Here's the site's way to get rid of Spyaxe for you tech geeks who can know what you're doing and can just go in and bing bam boom take care of the nasty.
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FireFox - SpyAxe
I was just browsing happily away, secure in the knowledge that FireFox is a much better browser than any other. It generally blocks pop-ups and so on, is more secure than any other, but ‘lo what happens?
My FireFox browser shuts itself down without any warning. Then I look on my desktop, and I see a program called “SpyAxe” had been installed!! Without my say-so no less! Looking on the toolbar, I see two new icons next to my sound controls, network icon, panda anti-virus. The strange thing is, one is exactly like the Windows Update icon. It’s flashing, telling me spyware has been detected.
So I think to myself, how could this happen? Something fishy here. I run Panda, and its found two virii so far. I’ll run Spybot next. How could this happen when I’m running Firefox? I thought it asks if you download something, and certainly isn’t supposed to install things without asking!
Update: I saw a thread over at Spyware Warrior, talking about SpyAxe. One of the commenters said I didn’t post what I was doing so here is the update. I use FireFox for everything, browing blogs, my own coding (nothing nefarious, mostly blog coding, site coding). At the time I think I had Technorati, some computer security sites open (I was writing articles on Networks & Security), and some blogs that I clicked on from BOTD. Now it could be that one of those was “set up” to give out versions of SpyAxe, not sure. Also, I have no FireFox extensions, no 2nd party additions - I use a naked FireFox.
Anyway, here is the process I took to get rid of the SpyAxe *cursing noises*, so others can do it for themselves.
Download HiJackThis;
Reboot the computer into safe mode;
When in Safe Mode, remove SpyAxe.
Run HiJackThis, my “infection” was HomepageBHO, delete it;
Run regedit and find this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
SOFTWARE\
Microsoft\
Windows\
CurrentVersion\
policies\
Explorer\
run
You’re looking for the mssearchnet and nvctrl entries - delete them outright (right click, delete).
Reboot
That’s what fixed it for me. If this works for you, add a comment to the thread. If not, say so, we can work on it some more.
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I hope this helps all who need it......
But I also hope to see some posts that give honest reviews of Spyware Doctor, also.