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| Sunday, May 28, 2006 |
Overview:
McAfee(R) AVERT recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.
Characteristics:
This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program". It purports to be an system repair/maintenance application, but requires paid registration before any issues found can be fixed. Many of the "invalid" items found appear suspect. This has been reported to be distributed in wild via trojan Vundo. Other incarnations of this software exist with the same model and similar web presences (for example WinFixer).
Files and process known to be related to SysProtect are:
1. Activate.dat
2. bnlink.dat
3. df_fixer.dll
4. df_proxy.dll
5. FxCore.dll
6. MMFx.dll
7. SYP.url
8. StrRes.dll
9. sscan.sys
10. sr.exe
Symptoms:
Sysprotect Pop-Up, Taskbar Icon, Security Warning.
Source: MCAfee Threat Center
MCAfee User Removal: click here
Manual Removal:
1. Download Ewido and save to your desired location.
2. Install Ewido and download all necessary updates.
3. Reboot your computer in SafeMode.
- Press F8, after the power was turned on
- Select Safe Mode from selections menu
4. Run a full scan and delete infections that are detected.
note:If you are using Windows XP, proceed with these steps, Windows9x and ME please skip.
5. Reboot computer in SafeMode with Networking
- Press F8, after the power was turned on
- Select Safe Mode with Networking from selections menu
6. Connect to internet and scan with the following online scanners:
Trendmicro Housecall
Symantec Security Check
BitDefender Online Scanner
If Unable to Browse Internet, Fix the Damaged with:
Fix For XP Winsock
Internet Explorer Fix |
posted by hitech-leiza @ Sunday, May 28, 2006  |
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