Eliminating a nuisance program

[kandrathe]

I'm kind of in the same boat myself. I have ran the following programs: SpyBlaster, Spy Sweeper, Spybot, AdAware, and run adwatch 24/7. On top of this I have made use of Norton Systemworks and the free house call at trendmicro.com. I have modified my registry to no end but I cannot get rid of any one of these programs. I have deleted programs and folders yet they still show up in my registry and I still get IE pop ups. This strikes me as odd, as I never ever use IE. But above all there is one program that I cannot get rid of because I cannot even find it!! It is called kalvdze.exe and is supposed to be in my system32 folder, I cannot find it at all!! I see it in my registry however as kalvsys, and as I have mentioned no amount of regedit will get rid of this or any other files listed in the registry. I have one last hope before resorting to that god of all commands though! I will post my hijack this log and see if there is any hope for my current install of XP Pro.

url={omitted}
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This is what I would do.

Have been infected with this for about a week now, seem to have got rid now by doing the following:-

1. Boot into Safe Mode
2. Did a search for all files that begin with letters kalv
3. Deleted all of the files.
4. Run regedit
5. Search for kalv
6. Delete all registry keys that contain kalv
7. rebooted into normal mode.

I was also infected with ringtone.exe spyware and I managed to get rid of it at the same time by duplicating above.

Remember playing with your registry can totally ruin your installation of windows - I tried it as I was going to do a clean install if it didn't work.

Hope this helps anyone who is infected.