Gazette Reader ‘Faskia’ writes:

" Dear Dennis,

One of my PCs is now failing to connect to the Internet, and is showing a Security Warning screen on a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The blue background reads, ‘A fatal error in IE has occured at 0028.C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01)+00010E36. Error was caused by Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c.’ Would you please give me some simple steps to remove Smitfraud from my PC? "

My response:

The problem is that your computer has been infected with Spyware. According to the F-Secure web site, Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smithfraud.c is a phishing scam where "a fake screen is presented to user [may even be a fake Blue Screen of Death], in an attempt to collect user account information" (Source: f-Secure.com).

I did some in-depth research and from what I understand, this Trojan is difficult to remove. It may because it’s a new Spyware variant and from what I read, the majority of Spyware / anti-virus programs cannot remove it.

I was, however, able to find two manual removal solutions …

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