[zerombr]

Yes, well, first off, thanks to this forum for assisting me at all.

My problem is that I've got something that is shutting down my spyware sweepers in mid scan. I believe it's related to a program I thought I removed, called AVnet, that claimed to be a spyware sweeper that snuck onto my comp.

I don't remember where I saw it, but there was an analysis that said that it's mostly masquerading as svchost.exe which makes sense, since I see 4 of them, only I know not which is the real one, one takes up 200 b, 26kb two others take up about 1kb.

I have Search and Destroy, as well as Malware-Bytes, but neither are allowed to finish. after I re-install it, I get a message saying that I don't have permission to access it.

I also have Process Explorer up and running if that helps.

I'm rather novice in these parts, and would appreciate any assistance.

[zerombr]

ok it looks like that Total Security bug, I'm on the site looking at that, hope it works.

[zerombr]

I definitely had some stuff from it on my comp, which I deleted from the registry, but I'm not certain what the program it is that I need to manually shut off, to get Malware-Bytes to load properly.

[rodi]

Hi,

have you tried to run MalwareBytes in safe mode?

[zerombr]

that's next up, suppose I should've tried that earlier now that I think about it...

thanks

update: nope, can't run Malware Bytes in safe mode.
I renamed the setup file, and the actual .exe file and still nothing
also, it seems to affect any games I play, in that, it's only played in a window on the screen, instead of full size

[zerombr]

ok, now I can run malware bytes, but I still can't get spybot S&D to work, maybe I just need to redownload it?

[rodi]

Yes, install a fresh copy of Spybot, it might help.