List of Removable Malware

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AndyManchesta

The following is a list of malware and optional fixes
that places an entry in the Start -> Control Panel ->
Add/Remove Programs list.

If any of these appear in scans, they should be
uninstalled from Add/Remove Programs then use the
scanners again to see if any traces still exist.

List of Malware
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180 Search Assistant
180Solutions
Active alert
Ad Service
AdTools
AdTools Service
Alexa toolbar
BargainBuddy
Bullseye Networks
CashBack
cosmi
EasySearchBar
Elite Sidebar
Elite Toolbar
GAIN
Gator
Hotbar Outlook Tools
Hotbar Web Tools
HuntBar
Internet Optimizer
ISTbar
ISTSvc
MaxiFiles
Media Access
Media Gateway
NavExcel Search Toolbar
NavHelper
ncase
Oemji Toolbar
Open Site
Preview AdService
Search Toolbar (HuntBar/WinTools)
ShopperReports by Hotbar
Sidefind
SideSearch
Slotchbar
Software Update Manager
SurfAccuracy
SurfSideKick
Upspiral Toolbar
VBouncer
WareOut
Web Rebates
Web Search Toolbar (WinTools)
Webhancer
WeirdOnTheWeb
Windows AdService
Windows AdStatus
Windows ServeAd
WinTools
WinTools Easy Installer
WSEM Update

List of Optionals
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Download Accelerator Plus
Kazaa
Kontiki
Messenger Plus
MySearch
MyWay Search Bar
MyWebSearch
NewDotNet
P2P Networking
Viewpoint
Viewpoint Manager
Viewpoint Media Player
WildTangent


Regards Andy
 
Thanks - that's a very useful list. I've regularly been browsing add/remove
programs on machines I touch, but I don't always know what I'm looking for.
I've been regularly removing some of the optional stuff you note, with no
complaints yet.
 
Thanks Bill & Engel

Its never usually as simple as just removing the malware
from Add/Remove screen but generally it should be the
starting point and does remove most of the junk then
using scanners can remove the remaining traces, as always
with this junk there is many variants that do not enter
themselves into Add/Remove like some Elite variants but
its still worth checking first to be sure then you can
kill them with scanners if needed.

Andy
 
Andy,
While the current version of SurfSidekick (SurfSidekick 3) is (correctly)
detected as spyware/adware, the software does not come with an uninstaller
and resists all efforts to remove it from my system.

I have run the beta1 version of Microsoft's anti-spyware software with my
system booted normally, in safe mode without networking available and in safe
mode with command prompt. In all cases Microsoft's anti-spyware software
finds the SurfSidekick software and claims to have successfully removed it.
Following the requested re-boot, another scan reveals SurfSidekick software
is still present on my system.

Do you have any suggestions
 
Andy will have useful cleaning instructions, I suspect. The suggestion I
have is the bureaucratic one--submit a Tools, Suspected Spyware report from
Microsoft Antispyware, if possible, please? This is the way to bring this
issue to the attention of the development team.

If this function results in a proxy message on a network where there is no
proxy involved, you are hitting a bug in beta1, for which we have no
workaround.

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