Malware Removal Programs....

[Doin]

I stupidly downloaded a torrent client called torrentq (avoid it at all cost).

It dumped spy/mal/evil/bastard/arseholeware onto my PC and I am having a hard time getting rid of it. I have downloaded several lovely adware removal programs that quite gladly scan your hard drive, make you sit there for 20 minutes while it does so, reports the malware on your PC and then asks you to pay for it so that you can access the removal feature.

Bloody annoying! They should not offer a trial download if it doesn't bloody do anything!

Adaware doesn't seem to get rid of it either.

Anyway, that's my bitch for the day.

PS - I have something called tagasaurus which is supposedly difficult to remove.
I believe that the creators of these things should be subject to extreme punishment to the full extent of the law...and then some.

[MetDream]

Have you tried spybot search and destroy. It is free and it works pretty well.

http://www.spybot.info/

[Fadingtoblack]

I also use Adaware and as a more powerful one, Hijackthis:

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

That will actually clean dodgy entries out of the registry which can be needed to kill some of those bastards

[Doin]

Well, here's the postscript....

I emailed the people at torrentq asking how to get rid of the spyware they put onto my computer.

The guy told me to read the FAQ and it said that all I needed to do was go into Control Panel, then Add/Remove and remove a sponsor program. So after all that stuffing around with various malware removal programs - and I did eventually grab Spybot - it wasn't malware after, hence the reason these programs wouldn't fix the problem.

However my gripe still stands with free programs that work till the point of where they're about to do what you downloaded it for in the first place. It's like an adult film that ends when the first button is undone...(only analogy I could come up with...)

[Fadingtoblack]

Yeah those programs are pretty pointless. Like an audio ripper that will only rip 5 second blocks every 5minutes or so, or a video encoder that will only give you sound while the video's a bloody great watermark...

Good to hear you got it under control though!

[damage jackal]

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwa ... fault.mspx

[Sepu]

check this one, is very good but trial.

http://www.ewido.net/en/