Defender removed Trojan Dropper;Win32/Messenger Skinner

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rongarden

Guest
Defender removed this trojan on 12thApril but I am left with an entry in All

programs showing "Messenger Skinner2" and I cannot remove it.Does this mean

that the trojan has not been removed completely and can anybody tell me what

to do about it as I am still getting threat notices from a "Phoney Windows

Security" site and full page adverts from all sorts of firms?

Thanks if you can help.

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Ron Sutton

 
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Carey Frisch [MVP]

Guest
Download and run Ad-Aware:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

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Carey Frisch

Microsoft MVP

Windows Desktop Experience -

Windows System & Performance

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"rongarden" wrote:

Defender removed this trojan on 12thApril but I am left with an entry in All

programs showing "Messenger Skinner2" and I cannot remove it.Does this mean

that the trojan has not been removed completely and can anybody tell me what

to do about it as I am still getting threat notices from a "Phoney Windows

Security" site and full page adverts from all sorts of firms?

Thanks if you can help.

--

Ron Sutton

 
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Kayman

Guest
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:45:01 -0700, rongarden wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> Defender removed this trojan on 12thApril but I am left with an entry in All

> programs showing "Messenger Skinner2" and I cannot remove it.Does this mean

> that the trojan has not been removed completely and can anybody tell me what

> to do about it as I am still getting threat notices from a "Phoney Windows

> Security" site and full page adverts from all sorts of firms?

> Thanks if you can help.</span>

Ad-Aware and SuperAntispyware (both free) together with WinDef are

must-have applications. After you downloaded/updated the software perform

scan in safe mode.

 
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rongarden

Guest
Hello Carey-I have managed to remove the Messenger Skinner Program from the

Startup and All Programs Menus but I am still getting about 12 different Full

Page Ads of various sorts including Phoney Security Centre messages saying

that 45 Threats have been found and giving a link to download an Antispyware

program.Have you any ideas how I can remove these Ads? i installed and ran

Adaware,Super Antipyware and Spyware Doctor in turn and some Threats were

found but the Ads keep coming.

According to the Microsoft description of the Trojan the Ads can continue

for 3 months after the Trojan has been removed!

Thanks

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Ron Sutton

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> Download and run Ad-Aware:

> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

>

> --

> Carey Frisch

> Microsoft MVP

> Windows Desktop Experience -

> Windows System & Performance

>

> ---------------------------------------------------------------

>

> "rongarden" wrote:

>

> Defender removed this trojan on 12thApril but I am left with an entry in All

> programs showing "Messenger Skinner2" and I cannot remove it.Does this mean

> that the trojan has not been removed completely and can anybody tell me what

> to do about it as I am still getting threat notices from a "Phoney Windows

> Security" site and full page adverts from all sorts of firms?

> Thanks if you can help.

> --

> Ron Sutton</span>

 
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Engel

Guest
Hello rongarden,

Have you tried Kayman's advice to Perform the scan in in Safe Mode?

Using all your cleaning tools.

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"rongarden" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> Defender removed this trojan on 12thApril but I am left with an entry in All

> programs showing "Messenger Skinner2" and I cannot remove it.Does this mean

> that the trojan has not been removed completely and can anybody tell me what

> to do about it as I am still getting threat notices from a "Phoney Windows

> Security" site and full page adverts from all sorts of firms?

> Thanks if you can help.

> --

> Ron Sutton</span>

 
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rongarden

Guest
Hello Engel,

Yes I did scan with AdAware and Spyware Doctor in Safe Mode and I also ran

the Windows Live Onecare free scan and Windows Disk Clean Up and they all

disclosed some threats which I removed with no apparent effect on the

Messages and Ads but I have not received any of the Messages for the last 48

hours so I am thinking one of the scans did have some effect and stopped them.

I will stop some of the scans and see what happens.

Thanks for your help.

Ronswold

"Engel" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> Hello rongarden,

>

> Have you tried Kayman's advice to Perform the scan in in Safe Mode?

> Using all your cleaning tools.

>

> - -- ---

>

>

> "rongarden" wrote:

> <span style="color:green">

> > Defender removed this trojan on 12thApril but I am left with an entry in All

> > programs showing "Messenger Skinner2" and I cannot remove it.Does this mean

> > that the trojan has not been removed completely and can anybody tell me what

> > to do about it as I am still getting threat notices from a "Phoney Windows

> > Security" site and full page adverts from all sorts of firms?

> > Thanks if you can help.

> > --

> > Ron Sutton</span></span>

 
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Engel

Guest
Hi Ron,

That's good to hear, glad we were able to help.

Thanks for the report.

Another very good antimalware app is SuperAntiSpyware. There is a free

version (on demand scanning only), the paid for version includes active

monitoring, similar to Windows defender:

<http://www.superantispyware.com/>

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"rongarden" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> Hello Engel,

> Yes I did scan with AdAware and Spyware Doctor in Safe Mode and I also ran

> the Windows Live Onecare free scan and Windows Disk Clean Up and they all

> disclosed some threats which I removed with no apparent effect on the

> Messages and Ads but I have not received any of the Messages for the last 48

> hours so I am thinking one of the scans did have some effect and stopped them.

> I will stop some of the scans and see what happens.

> Thanks for your help.

> Ronswold

>

>

>

>

>

> "Engel" wrote:

> <span style="color:green">

> > Hello rongarden,

> >

> > Have you tried Kayman's advice to Perform the scan in in Safe Mode?

> > Using all your cleaning tools.

> >

> > - -- ---

> >

> >

> > "rongarden" wrote:

> > <span style="color:darkred">

> > > Defender removed this trojan on 12thApril but I am left with an entry in All

> > > programs showing "Messenger Skinner2" and I cannot remove it.Does this mean

> > > that the trojan has not been removed completely and can anybody tell me what

> > > to do about it as I am still getting threat notices from a "Phoney Windows

> > > Security" site and full page adverts from all sorts of firms?

> > > Thanks if you can help.

> > > --

> > > Ron Sutton</span></span></span>

 
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