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Originally Posted by erooup
Yes, a full reinstall is the only way to go. The OS have been compromised, and no matter what he does, he can never be sure that is going on with the systemfiles, because polymorphic file infectors like Sality, leave the malware code virtually untraceable if the client OS was succesfully infected.
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he's has a spyware and it just mess with the browser/connection functions in order to get you to visit a pages. formatting and reinstalling is the lazy way of fixing things. its not going to stop the problem from happening again in the future so it good to learn how to manually remove the problem. Malawarebyte does a good job of removing the files. Windows (vista/7) will tell you if a system file has been altered or changed. Formatting and reinstalling definitely my way maybe considered the hard way but you learn whats happening and will pick up on threats long before they take effect after a reboot.