SpyAxe/MovieLand...

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Just had my first experience trying to eradicate "SpyAxe" and all
the associated junk with it. Customer had fully update AV (eTrust)
and MS ASW with latest defs - no detection ? Anyone else had
any experience with this Spyware ?
 
There are references to fixes in this forum here:

Subject: Another victim of SPY AXE !!!
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:36:02 -0800

Subject: Spy Ax
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 18:45:02 -0800
 
If you still need help with this check the thread above yours which is
"Please Help -Desktop Frozen" as it applies to your infection as well, There
is a fix tool for SpyAxe called SpyAxe Fix from Noahdfear but its also been
written into his other fix tool Smitrem so that will remove the infection and
repair any damage that may of been caused.

Regards Andy
 
It would be nice if Microsoft ASW even saw this.
I made use of smitrem to remove it.
Even Adaware only saw two registry keys.
 
Scott;

SpyAxe is in reality a variant of the Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c malware
infection.
http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/

At the present state of malware removal, there exists:
Anti-Virus specialty programs
Anti-Spyware specialty programs
Anti-Trojan specialty programs (examples of which are Ewido, a-squared Free,
and TrojanHunter)
....and a whole host of specific malware detectors/removers.

Some degree of overlap may occur among all three categories. I understand your
desire to have MSAS be an end-all solution to all malware problems application,
but it's just not designed to do everything that might go wrong.
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_...e-infection#Roll_your_own_Free_Security_Suite

Also, I'd encourage you to keep your and your clients Windows Security Updates
current.

'Microsoft released several security patches on December 13th that will prevent
the method of installation of SpyAxe and the related Smitfraud trojans. If you
are currently infected by SpyAxe, then proceed with the instructions below. Once
you are done, you should immediately go to Windows update and choose the express
install. Install all updates it finds. Once you are updated, you shouldn't be
able to get infected by SpyAxe again.'
http://malwareremoval.com/plog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=48&blogId=3
 
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