Spybot results

valor

When I run spybot search and destroy it always tells me I have about 40 problems - I clean them, and run it again and It still has the same problems

Virus check is clean, I have a firewall

The ones it finds are

Advertising.com
Adviva
Avenue A, Inc
CasaleMedia
CoreMetrics
Double Click
FastClick
HitBox
HitsLink
MediaPlex
TargetNet
WebTrends live

anything to worry about?

Mike...

Get rid of them all..

valor

Obviously I Clean them, but they are back next time I scan

Fanny Cradock

What is the time interval between scans? If is a long period of time then it possible your machine is just getting infected again.

If they aren't being removed at all you may want to reinstall the programme as well as downloading AVG antispyware, Adaware and Defender. The programmes can run together without causing any sort of conflict and they will increase your chances of catching any nasties. You should consider switching to Firefox and install some of the security extensions like 'NoScript' etc.

Taradusk

Make sure you check the items you want removed. Re start and run again. You should also run Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE free edition and compare results. Only download from Lavasoft site. Its spyware free as well.

Have you a search bar running? It may be generating the spyware.

Ruu_Old

Scan in Safe Mode perhaps or somethings Spybot will ask you if it can scan on the next reboot before anything gets a chance to load and also give AVG Anti-Spyware a go.

Capt'n Midnight

if you are sure your computer is 100% stable you can disable system restore (this will paint you into a corner though) and clean and then renable it

I prefer to give me full rights to the system folder so I can keep the system restore but am able to do a full scan on it too.

the command in DOS is something like -
cacls "c:\system volume information" /e /t /g administrators:F

Fanny Cradock

Taradusk wrote:

You should also run Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE free edition and compare results. Only download from Lavasoft site.

I find that programme almost worthless to the point of redundancy. I think the last infection it detected was nearly a year ago.

Black Swan

Have you tried CCleaner? It's free at www.ccleaner.com

Fanny Cradock

It's a great programme, but it wont help with this guys issues

Black Swan

Valor...
You never named the AV programme you have currently installed? If it's Norton AV 2007, it is incompatible with Spybot S&D per Norton Security Inspector, which may be part of the problem?

admiralofthefleet

have you immuneised after you have updated

BostonB

Clear your browser IE/FF cache and cookies etc and it will clear these.

Then re re run spybot