WiniBlueSoft is a rogue anti-spyware program that deliberately creates fake malware files on your computer in order to trick you into thinking they are infections. These files, though, are not real executables or programs and therefore cannot harm your computer. These fake infection files are randomly made and created in your C:\Windows and C:\Windows\System32 folders and you can have as many of 600+ of these types of files created. The reason WiniBlueSoft creates these files is so that you think your computer is badly infected and then you purchase the program.
When the program is installed it will also be configured to start automatically on your computer when the you login into Windows. When the program is started it will scan your computer and display all the fake files it created as infections. These files will not be removed by WiniBlueSoft, though, until you first purchase the program. As these files are all fake, and are only being shown to scare you, please do not purchase the software.
More: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/how-to-remove-winibluesoft
This sounds just like Uniblue's Registry Cleaner (note the similar name!). A trial scan(or should I say scam) found about 300 registry entrys to be deleted - after you pay the 30 bucks. I did this once, and to my surprise(!) Uniblue never detected anything that my free WinAso didn't already find. I tried the same trial scan on a couple of other computers, and always came up with approx. 300 "problems. It didn't take a genius to realize that Uniblue planted those "problem entrys". I got a refund, as it was within 30 days. You've got to be suspicious of everything, huh?
I had this spyware and had a tough time getting rid of it. I tried Spyware Doctor and Ad-Aware Plus. Neither worked. Finally, I removed it using Ad-Aware in "Safe Mode with Networking".
Hi
I tried to look for "safe mode" but I don't see it as an option.
I am running Windows XP SP3.
what would be my options.
Thanks again.
Nik
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