I've been hit with some type of virus that has taken over my Internet Explorer. Every time I reboot my computer I'm directed to a website http:// clicks.spazbox.net/mt.html/ and a Trojan virus (of differing types) is inserted into my system.
On each occcasion various malicious programs have been installed onto my hard drive, my registry has been corrupted and my startup files have malware items.

I've literally spent hours with both Trendmicro and Microsoft and they have no solution other than re-installing WIndows. In addition I've run, on multiple occasions, Spybot Search & Destroy, two other Spyware programs and sysclean. Nothing helps!

Anybody out there ever heard of spazbox and know what to about it?

Thanks,
Gary

cathko

Hi I have the same problem, have you solved it ?

martin01

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Same problem for me. i tried several things but was unable to avoid that at every reboot, my PC connects with spazbox...
let me know if you have a solution!!!

mikee

:-[ i got it 2, on a customers pc, been fighting it 4 3 days !!!! :'( >

tahoka

I've got a laptop with this SpazBox - spyware or virus?
AdAware and SpybotSD aren't getting rid of it and McAfee doesn't recognize it. Its very disturbing!
Anyone have a solution? Please email me if you do -


Thanks!
Jay

garyb

I've got a solution, more or less.

After finally talking to a Level 2 Tech at TrendMicro he sent me a new vesion of their software that provides internet security, had me download a registry cleaner and had me run CW Shredder and Spy Sweeper.

The bottom line is this, once you've got this thing you have to clean out your machine with the above mentioned tools, install software that essentially disables Internet Explorer by blocking Spazbox (and all other sites) from coming through IE and install a different browser with better security.

I installed Mozilla Firefox, but I've heard Opera is more secure.

The bottom line is that, once this thing hits you and unless you want to spend hours manually cleaning out your Registry, you have to say goodbye to Internet Explorer.

The only lingering effects I have right now is that, on startup, a TrendMicro page comes up indicating that Spazbox is being blocked and I've got some residual file damage from the viruses that brought this little goodey into my machine. Other than that, every time I run a virus check or Spy Sweeper the results come up clean.

As I indicated initially, there are no good solutions to this problem, but the one I implemented was at least liveable.

Hopefully you find this helpful

mikee

;D i found a [size=4]HIDDEN[/size] partition that the pc was booting from and emulating(4 lack of a better term) XP, so no matter what i did to clean xp, when web access was enabled it reloaded all the viruses, mal/ad/spy-ware.....
good luck all . . . . . . . . . 8)

Numbskull

Hi,

I had the same Problem.But i finnally got rid of it ;D

i found this link and read what i had to do.

http://www.trojaner-info.de/hijacker/escan.shtml

it worked with kav for me.

XCG79

I got rid of it by opening Windows Task Manager and stopping a process called asetup.exe. Then I opened up Windows Explorer and found the asetup.exe file in the root of the C: drive and deleted that.

tahoka

Thanks for the great tip!!!!!!!!

I had asetup32.exe on the root. I checked my other Windows2000 boxes and they didn't have that file.
I renamed it Xsetup32.xxe incase I actually needed the file - rebooted and the spazbox /browser thing did NOT come up !!!!!! Wonderful!

Earlier I did try some other packages recommended but they did not work - only this asetup.exe solution seems to work.