"antispyware master" the mother of all spyware

[piaqt]

Sysinternals
Security Utilities
Process Utilities

[efc]

Egg, like you I never trust utilities from sources that I have never heard of. I want a long track record before I install one of these utilities that just might be worse than the disease. With that in mind I found the following information that would be my preferred solution:

AntiSpywareMaster manual removal instructions:
Delete AntiSpywareMaster files:
AntiSpywareMaster 7.3.exe
vmlwp.dll
veptlh.dll
isfmdl.dll
AntiSpywareMaster 7.3.url

Delete AntiSpywareMaster registry entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{70d17a5f-ef27-4295-90f5-20ad6f24834f}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{80ced3d6-ece9-48ba-8df8-2503d8d87c2b}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AntiSpywareDeluxe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AntispywareD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninsta

[efc]

To make sure that you don't remove something vital, recommend first changing file names.. If it solves the problem and doesn't cause any other problems you can then safely delete them.

[Curio]

Originally I posted a big long explanation of this and what steps to take - but the forum crashed and I lost the will to live. Hope you fixed it OK it is likely a variant of SmitFraud / Vundo.

[egghead]

Cheers Curio!

Thanks guys, installing "super antispyware" stopped all the annoying problems. I did however format a week later hehe