In message , Martin Brown
writes
Do you have another computer that you can use to make a bootable CD to
scan this machine for any known malware? Corrupting IE to make it show
adverts or hijack keystrokes is unfortunately all too common.

Only my wife's laptop (running Vista) This sounds to be beyond my
current skill set:-(

If it has a combo rw CD drive it shouldn't be. ISTR all the major AV
players have some sort of daily disk image that you can download and
run (and provide instructions for how to do it). You obviously have to
tell the PC to boot from CD first instead of HD but many are already
set like that by default. It shouldn't be too hard to do this. No
harder than downloading the right file from your AV vendor and
following a few simple instructions. It has the advantage that you are
then using software that is familiar to you. Leaving it three days
after the malware got past a decent AV product is usually enough time
for their countermeasures to have caught up enough to zap it.

You can't trust the main machine any more. There are some tools that
use enough obfuscation that they might be able to detox an infected
machine without being noticed by the malware. I have found
MalwareBytes to work fairly well on other peoples infected PCs YMMV

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebyte...-10804572.html


OK Noted. Thanks

As Fred said download it from their main site Cnet will try and flog
you stuff and add its own relatively benign adware if you are careless.

Increasingly lots of updaters have default settings to install annoying
destablising plugins adware "tools" for browsers - Adobe for instance.

OK Done. I ran the quick version and removed some items. Others I left
due to nervousness:-)

Full scan tonight!


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Tim Lamb