Re: I need some help in removing a nasty BHO Ad-aware in my WinXP

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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> M. B. wrote:
> > I have a nasty Ad-aware "BHO" ware sitting in my system with the
> > filename of REQ.DAT (in my C:\windows\system32 directory).
> > Thankfully the program "BHODemon" allows me to disable this pest at
> > boot-up, but I can't figure out how can I manually delete it
> > completely from my system!
> >
> > I have tried Ad-Aware Pro, Spybot Search and Destroy and Norton's
> > Antivirus 2005. Only Norton flags it, and when I follow the
> > instructions to "reboot in Safe mode, scan again and then choose to
> > delete it", for some reason, Norton can't even find it!
> >
> > Anyone have any further ideas?
> >
> > Here is what Symantec folk's write about this REQ.DAT:
> >
> >
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.look2me.html
> >
> > and here is a link to BHO Demon (it's free!) for those who need help:
> >
> > http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm
>
> Might want to try the Microsoft Antispyware Beta ?
>
> Also, you've posted this in a hardware group. I suggest posting in
> microsoft.public.security.homeuseers.
>
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