Removing stubborn adware

[silverfox1961]

Morning all technical bods.

 

For ages now my MSE has detected and quarantined this gem

 

SoftwareBundler:Win32/OneClickDownloader

 

MSE gives me the location of it but for the life of me, I cannot find it

 

 

Anyone have an idea??

[Seminole]

Have you tried www,malwarebytes.org? I've found it helpful in the past.

[silverfox1961]

Hi

Should really have said that I have tried these so far

 

Malwarebytes

Spybot Search and Destroy

Combofix

CCleaner

 

Nothing has worked so far

 

This adware was downloaded with a Beta version of a hidden object game and that game has been removed.

 

I am using Win7 pro and in 'Computer'. I cannot find anything to allow me to see hidden files

 

Thanks for the response Seminole

[gerson]

Hi Silverfox,

 

If you have the MENU options active then select 'Tools' - 'Folder options' - 'View' and then ensure that the 'Show hidden files' is ticked, if not tick it and 'Apply'. This should then allow you to see all system and hidden files..

 

If you have no menu options active try activating using the ALT key - then follow the above

 

Good luck

[dx100uk]

run combofix in safe mode with networking.

 

delete all saved system restore points first.

 

dx

[steveod]

Morning all technical bods.

 

For ages now my MSE has detected and quarantined this gem

 

SoftwareBundler:Win32/OneClickDownloader

 

MSE gives me the location of it but for the life of me, I cannot find it

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyone have an idea??

 

Download superantispyware. Before scanning choose options for full scan and deeply infected system. Also you can down load winpatrol which should help stop,it running and help pinpoint its location.

[Michael Browne]

http://malwaretips.com/blogs/software-bundler-win32-oneclickdownloader-removal/

[silverfox1961]

Thanks guys. I will try Michael's link. Back in a few...hours?

[silverfox1961]

Update.

 

I tried every option mentioned and nothing worked.

 

I should have mentioned that the adware was on my back-up drive (G), not on my 'C' drive.

 

In the end and after checking what was on the drive, I erased everything, formatted the drive, then did a fresh back up. All fixed even though it was probably a little extreme.

[dx100uk]

it was

 

no scanner will find that unless you tell it to scan that drive

 

now unerase the drive

and cure the MBR virus.

 

dx

[dx100uk]

thread is more than a year old.......

 

 

dx

[tobyjugg2]

thread is more than a year old.......

 

 

dx

 

 

But a perennial problem.

I find malwarebytes to be one of the best for getting rid of PUP's, as is suggested in this thread, but do run it in safe mode for some of the difficult ones, which doesn't appear to be suggested.

 

PUP = Potentially Unwanted Program (includes virii, spyware, spamware etc)