thaxor

Spyware is frustrating, then later on becomes hilarious.

A laptop came in from the field that had the internet connection hijacked. It would only go to some bogus anti-spyware site, and occasionally opens a bunch of popups.

I ran hijackthis without a problem, then I try to run spybot.

And when I hover over the “ok” this happens.

So that made me laugh. Real sneaky.

Finished up by running LSPFix.exe and removing a dll hook reported by Hijackthis. Finally a reboot and update of Nod killed everything and the internet worked again.