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Stopping Unstoppable Malware?
A frustrated troubleshooter asks: "I've recently been asked to fix a friend's computer, and for once, I'm stumped. There is a piece of malware on his computer that puts up Aurora popup windows. Neither Spybot nor Ad-Aware detect this, so I've had to try to manually clean the system. However, the files re-write themselves, making the malware grow back as fast as you can remove it. The only "solution" is to run an uninstaller written by the people who wrote the Aurora pop-up itself. Has anyone dealt with this particularly painful piece of pop-up programming, and if so, how have you successfully removed it?" What other pieces of Malware have you found that was difficult to remove? Aside from using programs like the afore mentioned Spybot and Ad-Aware (and others of their ilk), what other methods of Malware removal have proven to be the most successful?
Boot into Safe-Mode first, then... ...do everything else that will be suggested here.
You can't stop an unstoppable malware program, by definition. So, to say that you can stop an unstoppable malware program would imply that he program wasn't truly unstoppable.
Which leads me to the next question: God is omnipotent, so I wonder, could God create a malware program that even HE could not remove? If you have a computer that is behaving badly, start it working on that problem. While it's distracted and busy trying to figure it out, WHAM, you hit it in the head, just like Captain Kirk in that M-5 episode.
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Quite frankly, if I ever meet the bastards who wrote this crap [and who thought that it would be some kinduva nifty-cool business plan to go around inserting "infinitely large" subtrees into people's registries], then I will be sorely tempted to shoot them and throw their God-damned corpses in a swamp.
Perhaps you can find a 'registry' to shove that 'infinitely large tree' up.
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