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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Last night I spent the whole night fixing my computer - again. This time was my own fault. I downloaded a program from a torrent site, and when I ran it, suddenly Firefox started up with a preferences dialogue and proceeded to import all my Internet Explorer bookmarks, passwords, etc, but at the same time I lost all my Firefox extensions, add-ons and bookmarks. I was totally p'd off.
For hours I ran antivirus and spyware remover programs, and every time I restarted the computer, yes, you guessed it, it was back. I ran Spybot in safe mode and it came up clean. I rebooted to normal mode, re-ran Spybot and there it was again. Just two registry entries, and I couldn't figure out what the trigger was. I deleted the initial program, had the Task Manager open to see what new programs started, and was baffled. I upgraded everything I could think of, the antivirus updates, the version of Spybot. Every time it ran it said it successfully removed the thing but it kept coming back.
Twice I did a system restore. To a few hours prior to downloading the trojan, and then two days previous. Nothing worked. Just a week ago I vowed not to continue using Spyware Doctor because it failed to fix the problems on Carly's computer. I reinstalled and updated it, ran it, and it cleaned it up. No more Fake.Wget.
I found 1 reference to Fake.Wget on the Spybot forum, with a registry fix. Wish I'd looked there first.
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