Sp.dll

[walrus]

Calling people who know about computers (I envy you).  I've got a trojan horse on my PC called "sp.dll" which basically hijacks Internet Explorer and loads a search engine and a series of advertising pop-ups.  Has anyone had an experience of this and know how to get rid of it?

It's very memory intensive as its slowing down my PC, and irritating as it means I'm forced to used Mozilla Firefox, and I don't like the idea of there being a virus on my PC!  These advertising viruses are insane - like anyone would buy from a company who has damaged their PC!

[STFC_Chris]

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

This is supposed remove all viruses and neutralise Trojans, might do the job.

[walrus]

Thankyou.

Only problem is that it does not support Mozilla Firefox and everytime I open the page in Internet Explorer it then loads the search engine page.  Any way round this?

[strooood]

we had to re format  :shock:

[blinkpip]

How did you know it was sp.dll or how you know you got one.

[Simon Pieman]

i found this on a website:

Steps to removal:


1. look in your windows folder. if there is a file sp.dll of 1k in size, delete it. it's not a dll file but a registry file.
2. fire up regedit
3. go to local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
4. delete the line that says regedit -s c:\windows\sp.dll
the above line may not look exactly like that, but if it contains regedit -s and sp.dll, delete it.

Don't delete anything else unless you know what you are doing.


My advice:

Install zone-alarm or another good firewall, this means if any odd filenames (especially exe files) try to access the internet, you can stop them from doing so. Zone-alarm will also give you the location of the file in the program control list, and thus you can find the file and delete it forever. This is because the exe file that puts the shit on your pc is quite often not deleted by and anti-virus or spyware software.

What i normally do if i have a problem is do an anti-virus scan, scan with ad-aware, and also spybot search and destroy. NB do a full sytem scan not smart scans. Get rid of the crap that is detected. Then if my firewall is asked access to the internet by an exe file i deny it acccess, and delete it.

Hope you get it fixed, these things can be bastards to get rid of



 :evil:

[Simon Pieman]

oh yeh, if your anti-virus finds sp.dll, quarantine it and delete it. it isn't a legit .dll  file