SpyAxe 3.0 Created 18 years ago2005-11-20 13:31:31 UTC by Elon Yariv

What is this program? My mother work me up and said a popup poped in the computer saying that if she wont download a certain program that will delete a virus that we have in our computer we will be flooded with porno popups and stuff... Since my mother doesn't know a thing about computers she pressed yes. Now this program is in my computer, I can't remove it(tried already), it actually took over my computer...internet explorer doesn't work and instead of showing yahoo(my home page) it shows a diffrent page. This isn't a big problem since I use opera. Now it floods my computer with blank popups and windows update is going mad. I really don't know what I've done but this SpyAxe program poped up and started scanning my computer. (It took it only a few moments which looks pretty suspisios to me) It says I have viruses in my computer. I'm not sure I should try to clean them with this program for if this program is the spyware who knows what might heppen also some of them are in the system folders. Please help me!!!

A file being in a system folder doesn't make it important. Now go and run Spybot and Ad-aware.

Ran them both...what is this program? :

Ad-aware will sort most of it out but your computer could be scarred like mine, everytime I boot my PC a folder called System32 pops up :/ I have to close it.

Sorry Elon i have no idea. That is if you're not willing to format the drive

Habboi, check if it's in Autostart

I'm willing but still I don't want to if I don't have to. :

This program is annoying, one of my friends got it while he was surfing pr0n sites using IE

He had to reformat, Ad-Aware and SB couldn't remove it.

I had that exact thing Elon.
Except I had on my vista beta when I was trying it out! (secure my ass!)
Fortunately I imaged my drive just after i installed vista.
(I got infected within 3 hours. (cant say I wasnt trying to get infected though...))

Anyway you probably dont wanna hear how fortunate I was so heres what i recommend:

-Check how your program starts..................
-Try every single anti-virus/spyware/adware known to man (I recomend the microsft one because they have spynet and it also has anti-IE hi-jacking stuff which may solve youre problem)

PS. sorry for the crappy spelling..............im in a rush.

Habboi, check if it's in Autostart

I don't know everything about computers so could you explain where Autostart is.

Habboi: run msconfig

To the Google!

Thank God for bugmenot!

@Chickenfist: Elon has to pay money to see the answer to that.

@Elon: It seems to me that SpyAxe might be spyware disguised in as an anti-spyware prog so people would be conviced to download it. It's happened to me: Several times I've recieved pop-ups looking like error messages saying "There might be spyware on your computer." Well, there isn't, and it's just a gimmick.

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:bE-fbNCVMRcJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Win_Security/Q_21625410.html+&hl=sv&client=firefox-a
then.

Yeah, it worked fine for me when you originally posted it, Chickeh.

Crap, the second link doesn't display all the post.
But I think that experts-exchange let's you read the posts when there's a low traffic, because now I can read it normally again.

Me too. Interesting.

just use bugmenot!

Get:

HiJackThis
AdAware
Spybot Search & Destroy
CWShredder

:> k

SpyAxe 3.0 is a spyware disguised as a antispyware. I tried all these programs, many found SpyAxe but couldn't deal with it. So I reformated my computer. Everything is fine now.

@ Elon - You could have booted in Safe Mode then ran those programs..
It most likely would have gotten rid of it then.
(Press f8 when booting up on most computers)
Also, Security Task Manager does a great job of closing down those programs so you can remove them with the Adware/Spyware removal programs. (Link to Download in "HL2 F*cked" thread, or in my journal)

@ Trapt - I wouldn't recomment Hijack This to n00bies, you can screw up your computer if you dont know how to use that program. Whats CW shredder, is it some kind of Cookies/History Clearing program?

@Habboi - Go to Start > All Programs > Startup and get rid of it from there, its easier than going Start > Run > Msconfig and using this Microsoft Utility.

@4thGen - Of course Vista is Insecure, they found over 40 serious security flaws, before the beta even was released.. and Its a resource hog, I wouldnt recommend using any less than 1.5 Gb RAM on a Vista machine. One + is that it supports 64 bit processing, so you can finally make use out of your AMD 64.

@all - The moral of this story is - Don't let your Mom look at pr0n on your computer.

Dorian shut up, she was looking in wikipedia! It was my brother..

http://www.xblock.com/update_free.php?bn=38655&ba=1&bc=0

hope this link works, x-cleaner from xblock works well, it checks for changes in your registry and cleans computer internet activity very well (like nasty pop up porn spyware) these pop ups usually put themselfs in your registry and will self activate when you are on the net and if you dont know the name/auther of the nasty bug/program then it could be hard to find it in the registry......Hope that made sence lol

@all - The moral of this story is - Don't let your Mom look at pr0n on your computer.

Correction: don't use IE. Ever.

May I suggest never using IE to look for pr0n...Go on freepay website and you get free pr0n