Archive for February 10th, 2006
How to get rid of SpySheriff:

“I have a malware infection on my laptop, i go into safe mode and look into
the files and the virus file comes up as spysheriff with an icon.”

How do i get rid of it?
Is it easy to get rid of?
How did i come accross it?

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How to get rid of it?

Check out my site:

http://elamb.blogharbor.com/hacked/removespysheriff.htm

If you have already, try this:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/How_to_remove_SpySheriff_Winstallexe_Spysheriffexe-t22402.html

The Easiest Way to get rid of it:
Another way you may be able to remove it is to do a system restore:

http://www.elamb.org/hacked/systemerror384.htm

This is what I had to do because I had stuff going on even in Safe Mode.

How did I get it?
I was surfing some serial/crack/warez sites.  They are absolutely
INFESTED with malware. Some porn sites are bad, but warez sites seem to
be the worst.

On way to Prevent it is to use FireFox:
See top of this blog.