Beeps: yeah Hijack failed on that thing too. It's a tough one. I'm actually pretty good at this stuff believe it or not. I've been doing the computer thing since 1995 and have never had a virus other than the ones I sort of gave myself when I was messing with the hack and crack stuff years ago. LOL!
Paulo: It's so funny you mentioned that. Honest, I was telling my father that at breakfast! I sincerely believe these companies release these things so you buy their stuff to get it off your system. It's kind of funny how things sort of take turns, ya know? This one thing will come out...and people will post all over "this that this and this failed to even see it, but MegaMal took care of it in under 30 seconds!"
Then next month....the same thing happens with another software name...and so on. I really think it's a credible theory. For example, I've used SuperAntiSpyware for a long time. It's really helped me a lot over the years. I was pretty upset it didn't catch this thing. I knew Norton wouldn't catch it but I thought for sure Super would have. The more I read, the more I heard that this Malwarebytes was cleaning it right up. You get a 14 day trial for it...nearly fully operational. The fact that it did help me get rid of it made me fork out $24.95 just because I felt it was worth $24.95 to have this thing take care of even though I didn't have to pay for it. The free version removed it. But to me, it just seems too coincidental that this particular software was the only one people got results out of other than doing this list of 3000 things some IT dude posted up.
Mesh: Thanks....whew, me too. I never got blue screens and auto-reboots before. I've heard of people getting them over the years, but this is the first time I've ever seen that. I had my Windows disc in hand ready to reformat and loaded in my machine...then decided "let's look this up and see if we may be able to do something less evasive." I'm really glad I did because this little net box is set up perfectly for me. Nothing special...little Dell i3, 4 gig of RAM but it's perfect for the net and doing little service jobs. It was so cheap I bought a few of them.
Uggh....ZUNE! Unfortunately, I'm forced to use that as it's the only software that works for my HTC phone to sync up to my computer. I absolutely hate it and have thought about getting a new cell phone because of it. I dig this phone though and well, I'm not one that lives off a cell like most of my friends. It's more my emegergency life-line when I'm out...which I never am other than my studio. But it won't work there anyway. LOL! The property I own for the studio, has a cell tower 300 yards from the property. We knew we'd get some crap from it, but they pay me well to keep it on the property. So I had a technician come in and totally isolate the studio from cell phone signals so you can't get any signal at all. Every phone says "no service".
I actually love that decision because now clients have to go outside, I don't have to hear their conversations or watch them play with their phones while in the studio. I love new technology...but whew...I hate the whole "live from your cell phone" thing. :)
-Danny