Answer my spyware question please (not how to remove it)?

Question

I got spy shredder on my comp and i downloaded spybot and ran it and i found 15 spy shredder related things. i fixed problem and i re ran spybot to see if there were anymore and then i restarted comp and ran it again and found none. I also got 2 other spyware removal and scanned it still nothing. Its gone right?

Answer 1

The answer to your questions is, yes, if you don't see it, it's gone. Congratulations, spy shredder can be a bear to remove.

Answer 2

Should be but malware may still be lurking in your system restore volumes so it would be in your best interests to disable system restore, reboot then re-enable system restore when you log back on. What this does is protects you from reloading the malware should you ever need to do a system restore.

There are several ways to disable system restore but the easiest is to go to Control Panel, System, System Restore tab and tick the box to "Turn off system restore on all drives", click Apply, click OK and reboot. Follow the same steps when you log back on to re-enable system restore by removing the tickmark.

Answer 3

you also need to go to START, and then SEARCH, type in Spy Shredder and see if anything comes up that way also. My wife got spy shredder on her laptop, and that's what I had to do to get rid of it.. If anything comes up, right click on it and click DELETE. Then empty the recycle Bin

Answer 4

The correct and most through way to remove SpyShredder is to use the specialized SmitfraudFix removal tool to remove the Smitfraud infection that caused it.

The full procedure and link to the free removal tool is here:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic98791.html

Good luck.

Answer 5

Try these 2 tools.

http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php

http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php