while we are at it...
anyone know how to remove the "btv" (VX2) spyware?
adware removes the registries associated with it, the btv.exe file, but can't delete the .dll file associated with it in the system32 folder, because it is in use. i stop the rundll32.exe process from the processes list, which lets me remove the dll file. (adware also removes it if i stop the rundll32 process before the scanning). however it comes back after restarting. this time with the same registery entries, the btv.exe file, but a different dll file (i guess it's created with a random name). i rebooted with safe mode, manually deleted the registery entries, the exe file, and the dll files, but it still comes back after rebooting. the interesting thing is that after cleaning everything (the exe file, the dll file, the registry entries) adaware doesn't recognise any "faulty" processes. so, i don't know how it recreates itself if it's not in the memory. the only thing i haven't done is scanning the master boot record. i just don't have any clean start up disks (no start up disks... kind of messed up for a computer person, isn't it...)
you might just want to know that there were 30+ different spywares, 50+ spyware associated registery entries, 250+ spyware associated files, and 5+ trojan horses in this machine few days ago. i'm down to this one and can't kill it.