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Before proceeding with these removal instructions you will want to download all tools and print the instructions.

Download to your desktop FixIEDef

If you are connected via a router, download the User’s Guide for your router if you don’t have one on-hand.

Now disconnect your computer from the router and power off your router.  Next on the underside of the router should be a little red reset button that is slightly recessed.  Press and hold the reset button for a least 10 seconds.  This is going to reset the router to factory defaults.

Run FixIEDef (Instructions for use can be found at the FixIEDef Webpage)

Now let’s reset the DNS Settings for your computer:

1. Click Windows menu go to Start > Run (if you’re using Vista the search box).
2. Type “cmd”. (This will open the command console).
3. Type the following commands, exactly as shown, pressing the enter key after each command:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit

The command console will exit after the last command is entered.

Now reboot your computer.

Reconnect the router to the computer, turn it on and configure your router. This is where you need the User’s Guide for your router.

If for some reason this does not work, start a thread in the Malware Removal Forum, you must be a registered member of the site to post in the forums.

Calls on Senate for civil penalties

by Wendy Davis, Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008 8:00 AM ET

ADWARE PURVEYOR ZANGO IS PRESSING forward with its case that spyware removal vendor Kaspersky Lab wrongly interfered with Zango’s relationships with Web users.

In papers filed with a federal appeals court, Bellevue, Wash.-based Zango argued that Kaspersky, which removes software that serves pop-up ads, should itself be considered “badware.” “Kaspersky disabled Zango without the customer’s consent and without the customer’s ability to override Kaspersky’s invasive actions,” Zango argued to the Ninth Circuit in a brief filed late last week. “Kaspersky inflicted this interference by behaving like the very ‘badware’ from which it purported to protect consumers.”

[Full Story]

Thanks to Suzi at Spyware Warrior.

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
26 Mar 2008 00:56

Washington state cracks down

The alleged supplier of some of the net’s most hated malware titles has been sued by Washington state’s attorney general.

Ron Cooke, the owner of Scottsdale, Arizona-based Messenger Solutions, stands accused of violating Washington’s Computer Spyware Act and Consumer Protection Act for marketing programs that went under names including WinAntiVirus Pro 2007, System Doctor, WinAntiSpyware and Messenger Blocker.

According to a complaint filed Tuesday in Washington state court, the company caused some people surfing the net to receive a torrent of pop-ups that advertised porn links and other sketchy sites. The messages were sent through Windows Messenger Service, a feature in Windows that allows network administrators to send notices to users. (The service has been turned off by default since Microsoft pushed out Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, but evidently plenty of people still have it turned on for one reason or another.) [Read Entire Article at the Register]