Gazette reader Joe B. writes:

Dear Dennis,

I’ve been desperately trying to clean my computer of a nasty
malware /
spyware infection for the last five days. A characteristic of something that is going on is that while I’m typing along in a window, the window is suddenly deactivated and I have to mouse back to the window to activate it and continue typing. It’s most irritating!

I believe I have resolved the majority of the spyware infection, however there are four files that keep reappearing even after I delete them. I’m not sure what to do and would appreciate any help you can offer.

My response:

Spyware is getting trickier and trickier to remove.

In the early days of Spyware removal, all that you needed to do was to identify the program (or .DLL file) associated with the Spyware and type in its name into a search engine (such as Google) in hopes of finding a page with removal instructions.

However, some of the newer generations of Spyware are replicating themselves into randomly generated filenames at boot up, so that it is next to impossible to research the filename or process name in hopes of finding removal instructions. I suspect that this may be the case with your infection because the files are magically reappearing.

I assume that you have attempted various Spyware removers in hope of removing this infection, but none have prevailed. Notably so. Logically, the next step would be to…

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