SpyAxe 3.0 Purchased

Marianna, here are a couple more.

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

http://malwareremoval.com/plog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=48&blogId=3

I too have had it with these types taking my computer hostage. I ha ve emailed them and told them that if that message was still in my sys tray on Tuesday morning that I will contact my lawyer to initiate a class action lawsuit.

I agree with you. Do you have the business owners' names, address, and phone number(s)?? I'd like to help. Maybe a disgruntled victims "virus" attack to the perpetrators would make a difference.

had to spend 29 buck to buy webroot spy sweep, got rid of spyaxe, what a pain!! they highjacked my IE, that company needs to be suied!!

The spyaxe.com registrant, administrative and technical contact is listed as:



David Taylor

U-12 Gamma Commercial Complex #47 Rizal Highway cor. Manila 187th Ave S. (?)

Seattle, Washington 98101

Phone: 206 339 5073 Email:david.alant@gmail.com

Give him a call or email, tell him what a good job they are doing there!

strongly encourage all of you who have had problems with SpyAxe infecting your computer to go to the Federal Trade Commission's website to file a complaint about the SpyAxe virus:



http://www.ftc.gov/



Follow these simple directions to file a complaint at the FTC's website:



1) Click on "File a Complaint" (top third of the page in the center);

2) Choose "Computers/Internet Services" in the "Subject of Your Complaint" drop-down box;

3) Write "SpyAxe" as the name of the company you are complaing about;

4) Write "http://www.spyaxe.com/" as the company's website;

5) Explain your problem with SpyAxe in the "Explain Your Problem" section;

6) Click "Submit Complaint."



I can assure you that if the FTC gets flooded with complaints about SpyAxe, they will investigate this company and eventually put SpyAxe out of business.

Went to ftc site and filed a complaint. Hope all following this thread did the same. Found out that I can't start a class action lawsuit. Can file suit but a judge must grant class action status. I have started dialouge with online legal site to see if they will take the case for us. They need to go after spyaxe a--holes and Microsoft. MS knows/knew they had holes but just seem to blow it off. Good site to find out how tight your security is www.grc.com. Mr Gibson is a regular on Leo LaPort. He also has been warning MS for years about their holes. He does everything in pure assy language.

Found a report on www.adwarereort.com/mt/archives/cat_new.html
might help with some info about spyaxe.
Yes! They got me also took a computer expert at my college to help me get rid of it.

Hi all, didn't read all of these threads but thought I'd pipe in with my experience over the weekend with removal of spyaxe. I have not spent any money and neither should any of you. First I worked through ewido,SmitRem and Ad aware as noted via http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/

Upon restart I still had performance issues but no spyaxe ! I reinstalled XP and have yet to fix all that this pain has caused. I'd like to join that law suit. In any event here are some other good precautions and preventive measures:

Prev X is a good tool have you the latest, you can get a free version here it's a beta but it's stable!

http://free.prevx.com/


the smitrem.exe should have taken care of it! Even if it does not a panda scan would shown this file and by deleting it it's bye bye smitfraud/spyaxe.

ioctrl.dll <--- this is the file which respawns spyaxe! Delete it and it's gone!


Also download and use these tools for added protection!

here's some free tools to keep you from getting infected in the future to stop reinfection get these two tools, spywareguard and spywareblaster from

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/downloads.html

get the hosts file from here.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

put it into :
Windows XP = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Windows 2K = C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Win 98\ME = C:\WINDOWS

ie-spyad.Puts over 5000 sites in your restricted zone so you'll be protected when you visit innocent-looking sites that aren't actually innocent at all.
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm

Use spybot's immunize button and use spywareblaster' enable protection once you update it. you can put spybot's hosts file into your own and lock it.


I would also suggest switching to Mozilla's firefox browser, it's safer, has
a built in pop up blocker, blocks cookies and adds. Mozilla Thunderbird is also a good
e-mail client.

http://www.mozilla.org/


Read here to see how to tighten your security:
http://forums.techguy.org/t208517.html

A good overall guide for firewalls, anti-virus, and anti-trojans as well as
regular spyware cleaners.

http://www.firewallguide.com/anti-trojan.htm

Hope I've shed some light on this issue.

I am working on the info needed to get this started. I will keep everyone posted. Dave.

I have at least ten folks who want to be a part of this lawsuit. After I was infected some time ago, I set up a blog where victims can come together and figure out how to laucnh a class action suit. None of us are in it for financial gain, but we all want to see SpyAxe shut down, and the parties responsible thrown in prison.

Please contact me via www.suespyaxe.blogspot.com

I downloaded a trial version of Webroot Spy Sweeper that seemed to remove spyaxe. Also using your computer's system restore feature may also solve the problem. I also agree that SpyAxe's behavior should be considered criminal!

So spyaxe barged its way onto my laptop last night, accompanied by Norton FREAKING OUT. It has identified 2 trojans on my computer that showed up at the same time as spyaxe. I've identified the files in my registry and deleted them, and used adaware to supposedly remove spyaxe. But after a reboot, I'm still getting the ******* fake "Your computer is infected!" thing on the taskbar that leads me to spyaxe, and the 2 files I deleted are back in my registry.

Are the trojans and spyaxe related? Are they what they make you pay to remove? Is there anyway to get rid of the damn things?

Give this a try:
http://malwareremoval.com/plog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=48&blogId=3

HI THERE

thank you guys ...i finally was able to get this fixed

Try downloading KillBox and deleteing wbeconm.dll (c:\window\system32\...wbeconm.dll) its solved the broblam for me The file to download is on http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/killbox.php. A manual is on http://forum.malwareremoval.com/viewtopic.php?t=320

After that you can UPDATE and run EWIDO or NORTON ANTYVIRUS and deleteing everything that have to do with SPY.AXE .

I?m not a pro in this stuff but its works for me hope its will do the same for you .USE AT YOUR OWN RISK !

this is the link on how to do that :
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001111912274039?OpenDocument&src=sec_doc_nam


after things back to normal you cen set the system back on.
good luck!

I try every thing i could do to get rid it adaware,spybot,symantecanti virus It remove it and it would come back. I had to format hard drive and reload windows .I think its criminal and should hung!!!