How to remove Spyware Quake

Spyware Quake is a new fake anti-spyware program. Once it is installed it creates fake popup messages designed to fool users into paying for a commercial version of the program. Here are the removal instructions for SpywareQuake.

It will popup messages such as:

Your computer is infected!
Critical System Error!
System detected virus
activities. They may cause
critical system failure. Please
use antim alware software to
clean and protect your system
from parasite programs.
Click here to get all available
software.

How to Remove Spyware Quake:

• Right click over this link spywarequake_removal.reg and select “Save File As” or “Save Link as” and save this file to your desktop.
• Now, download SmitRemFix.exe and save it to your desktop. Once it has downloaded, double click on it which will extract it. Do not run the actual program yet as it must be done in safe mode.
• Goto your desktop and double click the spywarequake_removal.reg file which you downloaded earlier and when it asks if you would like to merge the information, click YES and then the OK Button
• Load into Windows Safe mode by restarting the computer and just before the Windows XP screen comes up, press F8 and choose safemode.

Once in Safemode:

• Click Start > Control Panel and choose “Add/Remove Programs”
• This will now show you a list of the programs you have installed. Find “Spyware Quake” and double click on it, this will begin the uninstallation of the program and just follow the prompts, however dont allow it to reboot the computer if it asks.
• Once it has finished uninstalling you may close the Control panel or Add/Remove Programs windows.
• On your computer, find the following files and folders and delete them if they exist (dont be concerned if they dont exist):

  C:\windows\system32\dfrgsrv.exe
  C:\windows\system32\mssearchnet.exe
  C:\windows\system32\nvctrl.exe
  C:\windows\system32\stickrep.dll
  C:\program files\spywarequake\

• Close all open windows and open the SmitRemFix folder which we extracted to your desktop earlier.
• In the SmitRemFix folder, there is a file called RunThis.bat, double click it and it will start the tool. Follow the instructions and if it finds an infection if will start an uninstaller, when this happens click on the Uninstall Button which will finish the removal. When it is done, SmitRemFix will close automatically. During this stage your desktop may disappear for a few seconds while it removes and residual infection. It will automatically run Disk Cleanup at the end to remove any residual traces of the infection.
• Your computer should be now free from infection however you should run your virus scanner or use a free scanner such as AVG Free

Once it is complete, Prevent Spyware Quake from infecting you again:

• Get a virus scanner such as AVG Free as mentioned above and keep it up to date.
• Restart the computer back into normal mode and visit the Windows Update Site (there is usually a icon in your start menu somewhere. If you dont have this icon you can open your browser and goto http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com