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From: Diesel 

VanguardLH  news:ma35bq$roh$1@news.albasani.net Sun, 25
Jan 2015 16:24:25 GMT in alt.comp.anti-virus, wrote: 

> Diesel wrote:
> 
>> VanguardLH  news:ma1l95$cg4$1@news.albasani.net Sun,
>> 25 Jan 2015 02:43:48 GMT in alt.comp.anti-virus, wrote: 
>> 
>>> riserman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> How do I rid my computer of Vosteran? Delete/uninstall doesn't
>>>> eliminate it; System Restore doesn't work either. Upon reboot,
>>>> Vosteran is back again. (Windows 7, SP 1).
>>> 
>>> http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-vosteran-search/
>> 
>> lol. Checkout the instructions I left in 
>> Message-ID:
>>  
>> 
>> Notice anything? :)
> 
> What, that the article duplicated on ONE anti-malware program?  Oh
> gee, yes, that's major duplication, uh huh.  

No, silly. The instructions for the browser(s) are generic, like the url 
I originally mentioned. Neither website we offered actually knows the 
offending program the OP wants to remove. That was what I meant by 
notice anything.


> Oh, by the way, despite your omission and despite the
> order mentioned in the article, I'd use MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
> first, and that's before trying adwcleaner.  

You're entitled to your way of doing things. I didn't omit anything in 
my initial post though. Excluding Malwarebytes and using SAS instead was 
intentional on my part. I don't want to have to explain that you should 
be using v1.75 and not the newer ones. I don't want to be held 
responsible if an issue in the newer ones becomes a problem for the OP.

No, I didn't recommend it.

> articles you reference make mention of deleting or eradicating the
> remnant changes on the affected computer.  Removing the malware
> doesn't remove all the changes it makes, like the shortcuts it
> altered. 

You don't seem to be very familiar with Adwcleaner then. It takes a look 
at your shortcuts and if they're known to be funky, it fixes them.

> By the way, SuperAntiSpyware cannot be made quiescent as an
> on-demand scan-only non-resident malware scanner.  Even when you
> think that you have disabled it so nothing loads unless you run it
> for a manual scan, its installation adds a stack handler in the
> system I/O.  

Malwarebytes does too. Unless you take additional steps manually to 
prevent it from doing so. Your point?

> never fully quiescent.  You cannot use SAS as a manual-only
> scanner.  It's always there. 

I didn't say anything about using it as on demand or leaving it 
resident. I said to scan with it as the last step in my first batch of 
instructions and to post back his/her results.


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