Thanks for the warning. Your blog is one of the most helpful I know of.

One suggestion though. Your screenshots are a little blurry because you convert them to jpgs. If you converted them to gifs or pngs you would find less distortion and a smaller file size.
mrobinson52 | 04.27.06 - 6:01 pm | #

it's a good point.
Alex Eckelberry (Siteowner) | Homepage | 04.27.06 - 8:12 pm | #

How i wish i can throw a bomb to this Spyware Soft Stop. Ok wait for my love letter!

Imagine it seems like a street vendor shouting very near to your ear!
johnny | 05.02.06 - 2:22 pm | #

how can i remove these spyware?

thnx
rs4ever | 05.12.06 - 2:41 pm | #

Run a couple of antispyware programs. Free ones here

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/...y-on- cheap.html
Alex Eckelberry (Siteowner) | Homepage | 05.12.06 - 6:02 pm | #

I've tried a host of spyware removers, regedit and even going into recovery console to try to manually remove files. Spyware Soft Stop is never gone. It always returns. If anyone discovers a method short of wiping the hard drive and reinstalling the OS, I would like to know it.
Matthew Brown | Homepage | 05.24.06 - 12:26 am | #

same problem here mate.. I ran spyware doc 1 times but there is no way to delete all the active runfiles. I cant find anything helpfull on the net either...
This SoftStop prog. is pretty tough!
If anyone could help preventing me to format...
rene | 05.24.06 - 2:09 am | #

hi
its very good
but, I havent serial nomber
please send that for me.
sanaa | 05.24.06 - 9:46 am | #

I got the bugger! The file that doesn't go away because access is denied whenever a scanner tries to delete it is called notifysb.dll It will be in the system32 folder. You can't delete it, but can rename it.

I decided to run another scan(this time with Ewido Anti-malware), and attempt to manually delete files as they were found. I was denied access when I tried to delete notifysb.dll, so I tried renaming it. That worked. I changed it to crap.jpg, hoping that it could not run with that name. I then shut down, and used my Windows XP install CD to run recovery console. I typed del c:windowssystem32crap.jpg
and it was then gone. On some systems, the windows folder will be called WINNT.
Matthew Brown | Homepage | 05.25.06 - 8:55 am | #

Thanks for the tip... looks like renaming then delete worked for me. Just make sure to all the other files as well
Treason | 05.25.06 - 6:24 pm | #

You my son are a legend, I restarted in safe mode and deleted the file in question!!

Thanks allot!
Dan | 05.25.06 - 7:52 pm | #

I tried several of the suggestions that were given. And then I thought maybe if I create another account, I could access my taskmanger, which has been hijacked on the primary account, and then do the deletes. This seems to have worked; since, the popups and windows have stopped. However, I can't get control of the taskmanger on my primary account. Any ideas?
Kristi | 05.31.06 - 11:30 am | #

Thanks for the help, it seems to have worked......so far
john doe | 06.01.06 - 1:04 am | #

What do you think about this: Anti-Spyware: Efficiency of the Means of Defense?
Simon Scatt | Homepage | 06.13.06 - 8:46 am | #

Thanks for the warning, i have had serveral of those and similair files on my PC, it is (_&%%$# anoying
Daan | Homepage | 04.13.07 - 2:34 am | #