If the system is not going to be formatted/reinstalled, then inform your
daughter that *anything* she does online with it may be transmitted to a
rogue web server. Her passwords, usernames, personal information either
stored on or sent from the system no longer belongs to her and her alone.
If she's willing to put with that, more power to her.

MowGreen
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Tony Linguini wrote:

Well, a quick scan found 2, and a full scan found three, a new quick
scan found none, and a new full scan found none. Rebooting in between
every scan. While I know this is not gospel, it's good enough until the
inevitable next time.
Tony


"Dave Warren" wrote in message
...

In message "Tony
Linguini" was claimed to have wrote:

My granddaughter's laptop got the eco (green) antivirus
extortionware, and I
manually removed it. It somehow removed the core files from Defender,
and
now it won't start or run. Suggestions? (besides a format please)


I think it's fairly obvious that the computer is not back to it's
original pre-infection state. How do you know that you removed all of
the malware that was installed, and that the machine is safe and can be
trusted at this point?

Once compromised, the only solution is to format and reinstall from
scratch, until that is done, you can never be certain that the machine
is yours, it may still be owned by the trojan software (although you'll
probably still be allowed to use the trojan's machine most of the time)

I checked after another response said MSE disables Defender. The files for
Defender are still in place, but the Windows Security Center shows Defender
turned off and MSE turned on. There are also what appear to be duplicate
files in the MSE installation folder.

Mike.

"DL" wrote in message
...
MSE will remove / disable defender

"Michael Ober" wrote in message
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Actually the two work together.

Mike.

"DL" wrote in message
...
Defender has been replaced by MS Security Essentials

"Tony Linguini" wrote in message
...
Thank you, tried that, download said " incorrect operating system" or
some such which loosely translated meant that Defender is built into
Vista.
Tony

"KristleBawl" wrote in message
...
Tony Linguini expressed an opinion:
My granddaughter's laptop got the eco (green) antivirus
extortionware, and I manually removed it. It somehow removed the core
files from Defender, and now it won't start or run. Suggestions?
(besides a format please)
Tony

The first step is to try to reinstall Defender.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...r/default.mspx

These programs remove the rogues for you, and they are easy to update,
just like an anti virus program. I have the free versions installed
and use them regularly.

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoft.com/?domain=lava...aware_free.php

Malwarebytes
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispyware.html

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I checked after another response said MSE disables Defender. The files for
Defender are still in place, but the Windows Security Center shows Defender
turned off and MSE turned on. There are also what appear to be duplicate
files in the MSE installation folder.

Mike.

"DL" wrote in message
...
MSE will remove / disable defender

"Michael Ober" wrote in message
...
Actually the two work together.

Mike.

"DL" wrote in message
...
Defender has been replaced by MS Security Essentials

"Tony Linguini" wrote in message
...
Thank you, tried that, download said " incorrect operating system" or
some such which loosely translated meant that Defender is built into
Vista.
Tony

"KristleBawl" wrote in message
...
Tony Linguini expressed an opinion:
My granddaughter's laptop got the eco (green) antivirus
extortionware, and I manually removed it. It somehow removed the core
files from Defender, and now it won't start or run. Suggestions?
(besides a format please)
Tony

The first step is to try to reinstall Defender.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...r/default.mspx

These programs remove the rogues for you, and they are easy to update,
just like an anti virus program. I have the free versions installed
and use them regularly.

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoft.com/?domain=lava...aware_free.php

Malwarebytes
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispyware.html

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