Comments on: Spyware Sucks

By: russell

russell — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:30:58 +0000

Can’t somebody locate these Spysheriff guys? If we can find their homes or office they should be sued!!!

By: Louie

Louie — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:20:55 +0000

I seriously don’t know how companies can be so blatant about their spyware activities and remain in business. Spysheriff still has a website running after all the bullcrap they’ve caused. I came home tonight to my girlfriend pointing at my hijacked desktop with a “I don’t know what happened” look on her face. I ran my anti-virus and spyware programs, got rid of it. Then deleted the active desktop registry keys. Luckily through the trial and error efforts of others I was able to Google the steps for removal.

By: ceildh

ceildh — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:47:17 +0000

a friends father got nailed with this. your procedure for removal was very helpful.

thanks for taking some of your time to do this. it saved ME a lot of time.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 02:05:03 +0000

Same thing happened to me. I said ‘screw it’ though and just put my pictures on a flash drive and reinstalled the OS. SpySheriff really pisses you off though. It would be painfully ironic (and funny to boot) if someone were to hack into their servers and install their own spyware on their comps.

By: Alan Ruether

Alan Ruether — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:56:16 +0000

I was infected with this spysherrif thing and after removing it I still could not figure out how to restore my desktop. Thanks very much for all your info. You have saved me much time and headaches! It’s nice to see someone who posts helpful information for no reason other than to help others. Thanks Uncle Chris!
PS-one thing I found annoying was that microsoft anti-spyware had found spysherrif and reported it as “potentially unwanted software”- NO DUH!

By: Orin

Orin — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:13:59 +0000

Add another to the list of responses with the message omg you’re awesome thank you so much for helping me. Just fyi, this is the most helpful guide on how to rid oneself of spysheriff on the whole internet. Trust me, I looked.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:00:55 +0000

Sorry for not moderating these sooner — I had to wade through 180 blog comment spams to find these. Who knew that anyone actually read my blog!

I’m glad that my post has helped you guys solve your problems.

WRT reinstalling… with an old system, it’s not always easy to find the license key for windows for a re-install. Also, I didn’t have a Win2k CD handy. Given the fact that I’m trying to recover an infected system, downloading a potentially compromised CD image over the Internet seemed like a bad idea. ;)

-chris

By: cb

cb — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:35:52 +0000

I know the feeling… I get this job, as well.

One question, though: with a system THAT hosed, why not just back up, format, clean, and re-install Windows? Would certainly have taken less time…

By: Mikey G.

Mikey G. — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:38:31 +0000

I saved your website to my favorites because you saved my computer for that bad SpySheriff…

If you have any other good tips, please add it to you website and I will check in from time to time. In the meantime, I know a lot of others with this Pain-In-The-Ass SpySheriff program virus…

Ad-Aware Pro removed SpySheriff and how you showed me to get rid of the desktop screen worked like a champ.

I will pass this site to them…

Mikey G.

By: Dandy Lion

Dandy Lion — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:46:53 +0000

After days of un-doing the nasty SpySheriff spyware, that came through mlb.com when I was checking baseball scores, you finally gave me the solution I needed to get rid of their stupid wallpaper!!!!!!!!!!!!

Before your blog I looked up so-called expert Windows XP sites, ran numerous registry scripts from well-intentioned but feckless experts and pulled out half my hair.

Happy Father’s Day Uncle Chris!!!!!!!!! You da bomb!!!!!!!