From: <jaredwilli@gmail.com>

| I had this same problem and found the cure to the SpyAxe popup
| activity! I tried SpyBot Search and Destroy and Ad-aware, I have
| Mcaffee Internet Security Suite and it didn't do anything, and that
| always catches viruses, and I used various other programs virtually all
| of the top of the line tools, but nothing fixed the problem.
| SpyAxe states that they have been getting a lot of complaints about
| illegal affiliates infecting computers with Trojans forcing people to
| by their product in order to remove the Trojan that's advertising their
| product. SpyAxe is a ligament company I guess, but there are some evil
| affiliates that will do anything to get commission from these
| legitimate companies, such as SpyAxe, so they create these annoying
| Trojans like this to force people to buy things, basically holding your
| computer hostage.
|
| SpyAxe has provided a simple fix that removes these types of Trojans
| for free and believe it or not it really works. Here are the
| instructions:
| ------------------
| In order to clean your PC from infections related to Spyware Axe
| product, please follow the instructions below:
|
| 1) Save the "Uninstallers.zip" program from
| http://www.spyaxe.com/uninstall/uninstallers.zip to your desktop or
| HDD. (I was a
| little hesitant to do this at first, but I did it anyways because I
| tried everything else and it REALLY did remove the program from
| my computer, so don't worry this REALLY works. Really!)
|
| 2) Extract the file "illegal_adv_uninstall1.exe" to your desktop or
| your HDD using WinZip.
|
| 3) Execute the program by double-clicking with your mouse. Nothing
| special happens when you run the program (you don't even see it run)
| and you'll think nothing ran, but just Reboot your PC and you will
| notice that your PC is now clean.
|
| I was just about to re-install XP and then I found this in a forum at
| sillydog.org, and it really just did work.

Unfortunately that will NOT be enough !

There are various Trojans associated with SpyAxe and assuming that removes SpyAxe, it won't
remove the infectors that may have ayromatically installed it.

SpyAxe is malware. It is rarely advisable yo use an uninstaller from a vendor who creates
that malware.

Two part reply..

Perform Part 1 and then perform Part 2.

Use the alternate if the first two parts are ineffective...
Note: Alternate only for Win2K, WinXP and Win2003 Server

Part 1
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Use noahdfear's SmitFraud and SpyAxe removal tool -- SmitRem.exe
http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/click...click.php?id=1

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic36868.html


Part 2
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Download SmitFraud.exe from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/SmitFraud.exe

Execute; SmitFraud.exe { Note: You must accept the default of C:\McAfee }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to enable WGET.EXE to download the needed McAfee related files.

Execute; c:\mcafee\clean.bat
{ or Double-click on 'Clean Link' in c:\mcafee }

A final report in HTML format called C:\mcafee\ScanReport.HTML will be generated. At the
end of the scan, it will be displayed in your browser (Opera, FireFox or Internet Explorer).
It is suggested that you move the report out of c:\mcafee before performing another scan.

Alternate:

Secured2K's SpyAxe, PSGuard, Smitfraud, Sinnaka and Alemod removal tool.

http://secured2k.home.comcast.net/tools/AntiPuper.exe

http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=65072


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm