WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

Xposted to the cpu help forum but no one reads that:

I don't understand how this happened.

I had some really weird stuff happening w/ my computer, so I reinstalled Windows. Everything went just fine, except for the fact that now I have something called Winfixer that won't go away -- it steals my browser window sometimes, but more often than not it opens up a new browser window that goes to WinFixer's home page and sometimes popups up a prompt box asking me to download it.

WTF is this spyware, and how do i get rid of it??

What I don't get is how this is already infecting my computer immediately after a Windows reinstall...I figured it would have cleared any spyware from the machine...i haven't even downloaded anything since the reinstall...

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

Tried AdAware and Spybot?

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

Did you format when you reinstalled? If so do you have any partitions or anything on your hd?

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

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Tried AdAware and Spybot?

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Thanks for the quick replies -- for the record, yes, I ran both Spybot and Adaware.
Each found a bunch of stuff (mostly tracking cookies), and removed them...but the Winfixer problem remains...

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

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Did you format when you reinstalled? If so do you have any partitions or anything on your hd?

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Not really quite sure what this means...but I used the Symantec PC Restore feature that comes preinstalled on all Dells (not the Windows XP Restore point feature). Returned my computer to its out-of-the-box state.

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

Teddy -

Try this link: Spyware Removal Guideline

They have instructions on how to remove WinFixer manually, or they have a link to download a Free 30 trial of SpySweeper, which will automatically remove it.


SF

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

i just saw this

maybe it ll help...

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

Also, check out MajorGeeks they helped me out during the summer when my comp was swamped with malware... Great site!

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

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Xposted to the cpu help forum but no one reads that:

I don't understand how this happened.

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Think this might have something to do with it?

Re: WTF is Winfixer and how do I get rid of it??????????????
 

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Xposted to the cpu help forum but no one reads that:

I don't understand how this happened.

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Think this might have something to do with it?

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haha - nice. but i never actually followed through on that plan. so nothing was downloaded.