How do I remove the Sony Spyware RootKit garbage?
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Actually Sony itself released a tool to remove its spyware, this was after several privacy organisations complained.\n\nThe site says after you run the 'update' you have two options:\n- "Completely uninstall the XCP software and associated content protection files."\n- "Completely uninstall the XCP software and associated content protection files."\n\nI recommend the last option :)\nAlso check out the news post about this (2nd link).
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download some spyware software that will delete it for you.  if not, search for the spyware file within "regedit", and remove everything related to it.
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Go to Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs and find the program and click uninstall. If this doesn't work, go to this website and dowload one of the spyware removal programs:\nhttp://www.download.com/Spyware-Center/2001-2023_4-0.html?tag=dir\n\nThen run a scan of your computer and remove the spyware found.
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Try using Ewido, the malware and spyware scanner portion is free.\nIt scans and removes spyware that Ad-aware Personal SE and SpyBot Search & Destroy miss or cannot remove.\n\nDownload Ewido here:\nhttp://www.ewido.net/en/
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This is the only way to do it.  You don't have to buy anything, (which I did, but the program I bought Spy Sweeper, didn't solve the problem) instead follow the you need to download a removal program.  I ran it in safe mode, but it says you don't have to.  Read the instructions from the source.  When you get back to normal mode everything should be fine.  Mine was.
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i am gonna give u the best rootkit remover in the world accepted by proffesionals also. go and download it and its super simple. heres the link-\n\nhttp://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/try.shtml
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try this:\nTrend Micro Anty-Spyware.. free.. Extra verison 30 day trial, then converts to the basic package..works great\nalso, do a free virus scan with Symantec's avcenter\nhttp://symantec.com/avcenter
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use Ad-aware SE Personal software to remove all adware and spyware!!! it's #1 best software in 2004 and 2005..it's free\n\nDescription and Download here:\nhttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
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Detailed instructions here:\nhttp://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=469\nor:\nhttp://www.spywareremove.com/removeSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShellExecuteHooksB83FC27335224CC692EC75CC86678DA4.html\n\n.. Or abbreviated instructions for a simpler removal process here:\nhttp://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_103736.htm
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use Webroot  software and remove it..
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System Cleaner section below:\nTry some of these:\n\nSpyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers, Keyloggers, Popups:\nhttp://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3003-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=tab_rev\nhttp://www.ewido.net/en/download/\nhttp://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html\nhttp://www.download.com/Bazooka-Adware-and-Spyware-Scanner/3000-8022-10247782.html\nhttp://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/\nhttp://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10379544.html\nhttp://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/\nhttp://www.superantispyware.com/downloadfile.html?productid=SUPERANTISPYWAREFREE\nOnline Scanners:\nhttp://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/freescan.html?\nhttp://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx\nhttp://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm\nhttp://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html\nhttp://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/\nhttp://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner\nhttp://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php\nhttp://housecall65.trendmicro.com/\nSpyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers, Keyloggers, Popups Lists:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/104\nhttp://www.download.com/Adware-Spyware-Removal/3150-8022_4-0.html?tag=dir\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html\nhttp://www.filehippo.com/software/antispyware/setarea\nhttp://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/AntiSpyware/3-9-0-0.html\nAntivirus:\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5\nhttp://www.avast.com/\nhttp://www.free-av.com/\nhttp://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-8-Free-Edition.html\nAntivirus Lists:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/1\nhttp://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239_4-0.html?tag=dir\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads29.html\nhttp://www.filehippo.com/software/antivirus/\nhttp://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/Antivirus/3-1-0-0.html\nFirewall:\nhttp://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en&lid=staticcomp_za\nFirewall Lists:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/97\nhttp://www.download.com/Firewalls/3150-10435_4-0.html?tag=dir\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads34.html\nhttp://www.filehippo.com/software/firewalls/\nhttp://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/Firewalls/3-5-0-0.html\nIP Blocker:\nhttp://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/peerguardian/pg2-050918-nt.exe?download\nBrowser:\nhttp://www.mozilla.com/firefox/\nEmail, News, RSS:\nhttp://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/\nSystem Cleaner:\nhttp://www.ccleaner.com/\nSystem Cleaning List:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/98\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads12.html\nhttp://www.filehippo.com/software/cleaning/\nSystem Info:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/92\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads9.html\nhttp://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/System_Utilities/System_Tools/3-50-0-0.html
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Get Microsoft's AntiSpyware tool, Windows Defender, at http://www.microsoft.com/antispyware.\n\nNot only is it free, but it will it remove all known spyware and toolbars. In its advanced settings, it lets you manually remove all toolbars, startup items, and other things that can be nasty.
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download adaware by searching for it on yahoo... it gets rid of most spyware. You can also try to do a system restore if your pc supports it.
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Try cleaning out your registry with http://ccleaner.com\nits free
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Spybot Search and Destroy is good for getting rid of spyware>>> http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10289035.html\nIf that doesn't work, go to pandasoftware.com.  They have a few free downloads that will get rid of all kinds of viruses, spyware, dialers, etc.
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Try cleaning your registry for free.\nhttp://ccleaner.com
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The general answer is to run both anti-virus and anti-spyware sfotware on your machine. But there are some issues with this simple advice. \n\nOne problem is that new malware turns up often, so your anti-virus software should be updated frequently (weekly is the usual recommendation). BUT, some anti-virus makers have decided that some kinds of unwanted software aren't really viruses, and so shouldn't be flagged as malware, removed, or  deleted. This is the reason the spyware detection programs came to be; the anti-virus programs weren't announcing their presence or removing them. Since spyware is so varied, none of the spyware programs seem to catch them all. So it makes good sense to run more than one. Fortunately, there are many different spyware programs, several of them free. \n\nRecent events have demonstrated that this business model has its troubles. A couple of years ago, Sony-BMG decided to protect some of its music CDs by putting some software on the CDs which infects Windows computers when the CD is played on a Windows computer. It did so silently and was supposed to thwart pirates attempting to copy the music tracks. But it also allowed anyone to take over the computer / operating system without significant effort. It was a rootkit, making the Sony music CDs themselves Trojan Horse malware, and possibly the most extensively installed one in history. Several of the anti-virus producers have explained that they noticed this DRM rootkit, but didn't add the Sony rootkit to their malware lists. So for a year or so their customers' computers (and all the data on them -- business, personal, confidential, ...) were left dangerously exposed to the malicious by something many anti-virus folks knew of and chose to stay silent about. F-secure, to its credit, immediately added the Sony rootkit to the list of malware it detected and reported the day after they learned of it. Most others treated it as a PR problem for some time after the Sony rootkit issue became public knowledge. \n\nSo doing the recommended thing may not actually remove all the surveillance software that might be on your machine. The programs you rely on to detect and remove such things may be knowingly ignoring some. The most certain solution is to reinstall the operating system and all application programs from media known to be free of malware. \n\nWhich, of course, raises the obvious question -- how can one know this or that media copy is free of viruses, Trojan Horses, surveillance software, etc? The answer: it's not possible. For instance, a few years ago, millions of copies of Microsoft Windows CDs for Korea were infected at the factory with a virus. What has been thought to be the very first virus was a Merry Christmas greeting hidden on many thousands of official product distribution floppies distributed by Apple many years ago.\n\nIt's not an easy to solve problem. It may be that changing your operating system is a reasonable approach. Take Linux, for instance. It has had far fewer problems with viruses and other malware throughout its 15 year history. Part of this is probably because there are fewer installed Linux systems. But part of it is that Linux is based closely on Unix (from Bell Labs) which was itself designed from the beginning as a multi-user and multi-tasking system and so to protect users (and their files) from all others. This is inherent in the operating system, the file system, process accounting, access control, etc. \n\nWindows was developed from the quite different 'one computer on every desktop" perspective; it was assumed that each computer would have only one operator, no sharing. Not very realistic in the actual world of real businesses and families. With the development of Windows NT (2000 is actually NT v 5), MS tried hard to make NT (which could be a fully multi-user operating system akin to Unix in principle) work as much as possible like preceeding single-user Windows versions. There ha