Re: removing spyware (ezula)

[Jim McCaw <jmccaw2003 () ucsd edu>]

It was enough to just run pestpatrol as each user to remove the 'pests' 
from their profile.


Jim
At 10:56 AM 5/21/2003 -0700, Chris Berry wrote:
> > > > > At 05:39 PM 5/16/2003 +0200, McCleskey, David wrote:
> > > > > I am having a very difficult time removing ezula from a nt 4 box.
> > > > > Every time I uninstall it, it reloads itself during the next logon.
> > > > > I have ran Ad-aware, and Spybot Search and Destroy in combination with 
> > > > > the ezula uninstall.
> > > > > Does anyone have any experience with the removal of this nasty adware 
> > > > > program?
> > > > From: Jim McCaw <jmccaw2003 () ucsd edu>
> > > > I have used PestPatrol, which seems to do the job.  However, when a new 
> > > > user logged in, some of the spyware returned.  But, another run of the 
> > > > PestPatrol would get rid of it.
> > >
> > > From: Chris Berry <compjma () hotmail com>
> > > You wouldn't happen to be using roaming user profiles would you?
> >
> > From: Jim McCaw <jmccaw2003 () ucsd edu>
> > Yes, we are using roaming profiles.
>
> Then that's why it's reloading every time you log in, pest patrol only 
> cleans your local files, not the stuff on the server.  Clean it again, 
> then delete your profile stored on the server, when you log out it will 
> save your clean profile to the server and you'll be aok.
>
> Chris Berry
> compjma () hotmail com
> Systems Administrator
> JM Associates
>
> "All I want is a few minutes alone with the source code for the universe 
> and a quick recompile."
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Jim McCaw, M.S.E.E., C.N.E., M.C.P., jmccaw2003 () ucsd edu, (858) 534-2577
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Economics Department
University of California, San Diego


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