XPost: alt.windows-xp   
   From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   Mr Pounder wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "Lynsey Doyle"  wrote in message   
   > news:4e84e7b6$0$30780$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr...   
   >>   
   >>  a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion :   
   >> ofh98752jdp0vjgnk4dre78a50p6b2vtcu@4ax.com...   
   >>>  I need some serious help here with malware (?).   
   >>> (an XP Pro machine with all updates)   
   >>>   I downloaded a piece of software billed as   
   >>> a system cleaner (registry, files, and privacy   
   >>> info) -- Comodo System Cleaner. It has been a nightmare   
   >>> It seemed to work fine but having other problems, I decided   
   >>> to remove it. I looked in Control Panel/Add,Remove Programs   
   >>> and clicked to uninstall it --- the screen went to the green screen   
   >>> that appears just before desktop icons are set up. And nothing   
   >>> was uninstalled. I tried to drag it to the recycle bin but it   
   >>> wouldn't drag. Having a partitioned hard drive, I emptied one   
   >>> partition and dragged it to that partition. It simply copied   
   >>> itself and left a copy then in two partitions! I tried to format   
   >>> the partition which contained only it, but format couldn't   
   >>> run for that partition!   
   >>>  I did a registry search ans eliminated all references to it.   
   >>> Then I could delete the software ( the findable parts).   
   >>>  But now, it shows up by name in MSConfig services and I can't   
   >>> get rid of it. I "disable" it there but to apply I have to reboot   
   >>> and it's back again! And I can't make MSConfig do a "normal"   
   >>> startup. I check it as normal, have to reboot to apply, and I back   
   >>> again to where I was!!   
   >>>   Any helpful ideas would be greatly appreciated.   
   >>   
   >> "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing"   
   >>   
   >> Download and run Malware Bytes. Download and run Glary utilities.   
   >> >   
   >> Comodo System Cleaner isn't malware. Go to Administrative tools in the   
   >> Control Panel, then Services and disactivate the Comodo services there.   
   >> have a look in the Start/startup menu too, if it's there delete it.   
   >   
   > Malwarebytes leaves a rootkit.   
      
   Prove it.   
      
   --   
   Okay, yes, it sounds far-fetched...   
      
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