Removing Winfixer Popups - Comments Page 3

How would i do a sytem restor point?

WinFixer 2005 should be held accountable for all the pain, discomfort, misery, financial expences and waisted time folks have had to endure due their invasion of privacy! They have forced something upon us we did not ask for and therefore should be held accountable. I think everyone should contact the media such as described in another letter I read here. Start complaining loudly! They don't own the internet we do...without us there wouldn't even be an internet! Congress people CAN YOU HEAR US !? DO SOMETHING!

SPY SWEEPER!!!!! I wish I had found this post early this morning. The $29.99 then would have saved me a bundle compared to the hours I spent looking for a fix from MS, Norton and the likes. Installed easily in minutes and ran down and killed not only the WinFixer, but a bunch of other junk I didn't even know I had. Simple to use too!

I finally got rid of Winfixer for good, thanks to reading Rob's November 20 post mentioned above. And, at the same time, I also my anti-span/anti-virus finally says I have a clean machine again (I didn't even know the two were related!) Thank you Rob! Thank you Techguy! I am also going to send Techguy a donation.

Hi- after reading Rob's post, I used the link above and for the first time in eons, Winfixer did not pop up when I went to my home page.

It has a really scary disclaimer and in my case resulted in a fatal error causing me to do a forced shut down, but everything came up okay afterwards. So other than the heart palpitations and cold sweat, life seems good. :-)

http://secured2k.home.comcast.net/tools/VirtumundoBeGone.exe

Its free and worth a try, since Spybot, McCaffee, Microst updates and Xoft didn't work for me.

Hi: I was having problem with tbe Winfixer, for last two weeks. After Restoring the system got rid of the problem.
Many of the readers asked about how to do the System Restore. The steps are as follows: Click on "Start", then click on "Control Panel". Then click on "Performance and Maintenace", then click on "System Restore" at left. Select "Restore my computer to an earlier time" and click on "next". The "Select a Restore Point" menu will pop-up with the calender of the latest month. Restore point dates will be with bold text. Select a date before the Winfixer problem started. To select a date for previous month, click on back arrow key next to the month. After selecting the date click on "next". Windows will complete the Restore operation and hopefully your problem will be gone. If the problem persist, then Restore to an earlier date, definitely your problem will go away.

I've got the same WinFixer problem and also had the Vundo virus that was eradicated by Adaware only AFTER I uninstalled Norton. It was hiding in Norton. I installed McAfee and Vundo is not coming up on the scans of the system, but I still have the WinFixer. I'm afraid to do a system restore for fear it might delete some important documents hubby wrote in Word. Does anyone know if those would be safe? I think I'll check out Rob's suggestion at Techguy. Oh...in my research for this WinFixer thing, I found something that correlates the HalfLife software to this. You have to have internet connection with this version and I'm wondering it we didn't get it when we installed this. Anyone else with the WinFixer problem have HalfLife 2 on their system?

EDITOR'S NOTE: System Restore will not remove or change your personal data files (Word documents, e–mails, etc.).

Thanks to your site I did download Spysweeper, available from Webroot, last night. Immediate fix and I am sailing through the internet again. Worked so well I immediately ordered a 2 year subscription. Thanks for the help, I had spent in excess of 20 hrs over the last month attempting to rid my system of Winfixer and probably some other unidentified trash programs. Restore had not worked for me.

PEST PATROL DOES NOT WORK! PURCHASED THIS PRODUCT.. IT DOESN'T EVEN DETECT WINFIXER..

I have Xoftspy 4.21 (the newest I believe) and it looks like it includes a vundo removal tool. When it detects the Vundo trojan, and you proceed to remove it, a cmd prompt opens and explains that it will search for several threats. In my case, it didn't detect anything except for the Conhook trojan. Upon reboot, I also ran the virtumundobegone.exe tool which didn't tell me a whole lot other than it was going to shutdown my machine. After the reboot, I THINK my winfixer popups are gone...I'm keeping my fingers crossed...