Surf Sidekick removal...

From: Phillip (phillip_at_terrance.com)
Date: 09/22/05 

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:55:46 GMT

This is the second time in a week my computer's been infected with spyware,
the first time was Zenon or something similar which I managed to remove,
and now it's Surf Sidekick which I can't remove no matter how hard I try.

I've already tried Hijack This! as suggested by a number of websites, but
each time I delete the several entries they re-appear instantly. Ad-Aware
seems to have gone commercial and my reference file won't update since
last October, and SpyBot made things worse by freezing my computer up with
hundreds of alerts about attempted registry changes.

How the *** did it get on my computer? I don't recall having installed
any new programs recently, and my previous problem with unauthorized
download/installation seemed to have been fixed with the SP2 security
upgrade. Is there a newly discovered vulnerability in XP? And how do
I get rid of Surf Sidekick and is it malicious other than forcing me to
view ads? And isn't there any legal remedy for assholes who do this? It
seems to be about as ethical as breaking into someone's house and erecting
a billboard in their living room without their permission.

Also, I've downloaded several copies of Linux images that fit on a single
CD-ROM in an attempt to boot off CD into Linux to remove the files
manually, but even though F12 offers an option to boot off CD, it never
does and always boots directly into Windows. Why?

Quantcast