Adware Purityscan

[chotta]

So I have this solid T43P which was supposed to be the most solid system when it was sold to me last year. I am not going to say how much but I paid a lot of money fot it. Its the 2668Q2U.

Any ways, since the past 2 weeks my symantec anti virus is picking up this "adware purityscan" in the routine scans and despite cleaning every time, it shows up again and again, some times it picks up another one called "downloader'.

I have tried evry thing I know to get this out of the system but it does not work. I need some serious help on this. Thanks.

[GomJabbar]

See if running a scan from Windows SAFE MODE will fix this for you.

[egibbs]

Did you follow the instructions here to disable system restore, update your definitions, do a full system scan, and then manually remove the registry entries?

Ed Gibbs

[Johan]

You could try run the free and very efficient on-line and spyware scanner Trend Housecall (or get it or here) - it has helped me a few times, when other tools failed. It requires, however, that you have a relatively fast internet connection (dial-up probably won't work).

[ArtShapiro]

A Google search revealed that there are removers floating around for it. See this as an example:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/ ... 33479.html

Art