Nasty bug

[Linton]

has anybody had any experience of dealing with adspy/gdown?

[Reece]

No. but what would help is: What programs have you tried to remove this virus/trojan? assuming you are having problems trying to remove it!:hmmm:

[FIREWALL]

After an experience yesterday I'se recommend Avast. :yep:

Hope you get it fixed Linton. :)

Free and 1yr FULL Home version trial : http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Works with XP and Vista Great.

[Linton]

This pretends to be a piece of adware but it stops you getting into control panel,system restore even getting on to the internet.I used Avira and an anti malware to remove it.

[Reece]

Excellent, yes some of those are damn nasty, I always Ghost regularly, and if a really bad one causes too much damage I just re-ghost, whole system restored unattended in around 45 minutes!:up:

[Linton]

The whole thing took me 9 hours.This was due to some of the scans taking 4 hours at a go.

[NeonSamurai]

I assume you tried fixing this stuff in safe mode, as its nigh impossible to get rid of a lot of them if you try to do it while booted up normally. A few of the more malignant ones will even penetrate safe mode, which can require using a custom boot disk environment to bypass and disable it while you clean up the mess.

[Linton]

I did scan it in safe mode and normal boot,but thanks for the advice.