- Jan 6, 2002
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I good portion of what I do day to day is clean spyware off computers. I have my routine and programs I use and it's always worked for me. Last week I encountered one that isn't letting me do shit. Even if I boot into safe mode I still can't do shit and the spyware still comes up. XP Defender Pro is one of them that comes up. I googled and this in itself shouldn't be hard to remove. But it's not letting me, so something else is throwing a monkey wrench in. If I install anything, even in Safe Mode it won't run. It won't let me edit the register as it says the Administrator has restricted access to editing it. I did find a program on Google that is supposed to fix this, but since I can't install anything it's not going to help me.
Spybot is on there, with some older definitions, I ran it and it found plenty of stuff, had some in memory and had to reboot to run again - fine. But, when it reboots the spyware pops up before Spybot is even loaded again. Spybot has always ran before anything else opens up when it runs on a reboot. I think what I need is some sort of boot disc with something like Spybot on it. I can find some A/V boot discs but nothing for spyware. I'm not the type to reinstall XP as a fix, I consider cleaning the PC back to a usable state to be fixing it. This one is pissing me off. Also it looks like the spyware is doing something to make the CD drive inaccessible. I thought perhaps if I put the programs I need on a CD they could install. But it's not even coming up in my computer.
any ideas here??
Spybot is on there, with some older definitions, I ran it and it found plenty of stuff, had some in memory and had to reboot to run again - fine. But, when it reboots the spyware pops up before Spybot is even loaded again. Spybot has always ran before anything else opens up when it runs on a reboot. I think what I need is some sort of boot disc with something like Spybot on it. I can find some A/V boot discs but nothing for spyware. I'm not the type to reinstall XP as a fix, I consider cleaning the PC back to a usable state to be fixing it. This one is pissing me off. Also it looks like the spyware is doing something to make the CD drive inaccessible. I thought perhaps if I put the programs I need on a CD they could install. But it's not even coming up in my computer.
any ideas here??