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Spyware, Malware, & Trojans
By Brian | May 27, 2007
So I have just spend the last 6 hours learning how to get the SmitFraud.c Trojan off my PC. Yeah it took that long, mostly because whenever I opened my browser (firefox 2.0.0.3) I would get pop ups via IE browser. That is pretty hardcore.
So I did some more searching /pop ups galore slowing me down/ and found SpyHunter.exe and it said it would kill the SmitFraud. c Trojan. Well I downloaded it, installed it, and ran it. It showed me all the problems this frigging bug dropped in my PC. 14 different Registry changes, 8 .dll files and like 100+ known spyware apps. Fuck me!
I click the remove button and the BUY ME-Full Version button pops up for SpyHunter. and they wanted $30 – UGH! It never said anything about paying for it. Then I knew this must not be legit. Most fixes are from the concerned open source community.So I look up SpyHunter and find out they are working with SmitFraud.c in some way.
Great I just dumped more crap in my PC via a claim that they were the fix 
So I hit the Spybot Search & Destroy forums (it was that program that couldn’t fix this Trojan
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