How to remove Spyware Quake

April 20, 2006

After digging through Google, reading forums advocating all sorts of bizarre and long winded ideas, there is only one way I could remove Spyware Quake: by downloading Ewido anti-malware, software from the same people who write AVG. Effect a full scan then a memory scan as chances are there will be multiple related bugs with Spyware Quake as well. Its a 14 day free trial then you pay after that, but I’m so impressed with it that I’m seriously tossing up paying the $30 US to continue to use it, particularly as it runs all the time like Virus Protection does.

Only thing I don’t like about it: it keeps telling me my Alexa Toolbar install is malware. Not sure why, but its a little annoying.

11 responses to How to remove Spyware Quake

  1. i found that the best way to romove spyware quake is to download spybot it finds it and destroys it and is really easy to download and run

  2. Hate Spyware May 3, 2006 at 3:32 am

    Hi,

    My computer got infected with rover spyware. Could anyone tell me how could I remove it, please? I found instructions on Remove Rover Spyware but it didn’t work. Please help!

  3. We have seen this piece of cr*ap more than a dozen times in the past week in our service center. SpywareQuake is a new variant of the SpyFalcon and SpySherriff infections. I think a new variant has been released because all of a sudden customers started reporting that our free online removal tutorial stopped working. It seems that three new files have been appearing on the hard drives we have looked at. The files are all located in the System32 folder and they are msvcp71.dll, msvcr71.dll, and stdole3.tlb.

    We have updated our tutorial at http://www.schrockinnovations.com/removespywarequake.php to include these files, and now it seems to be working again. If anyone knows about a completely automated (and free) tool to remove this, post about it because it would save me a boatload of time.

    Sincerely,

    Thor Schrock
    Schrock Innovations, Inc.
    http://www.schrockinnovations.com
    866-496-8772

  4. Thanks a LOT. It worked very well and I will also be purchasing this software!

  5. I ran spybot, and adaware, as well as the latest free version of AVG. It got rid of everything. Only one strange thing, now when my system starts up, it displays the contents of the sys32 directory. Any idea why, or how to stop that from occuring?

  6. Hi guys. Try to scan your comp with Anti-keylogger http://download.softsecurity.com/1/15/antikey.zip
    They say its good for detect and block any spyware

  7. Isn’t downloading things what got us into this problem in the first place?

  8. YOU GUYS ARE MORONS June 27, 2006 at 2:36 am

    QAUKE IS MALWARE..IT INFECTS YOUR COMPUTER ON MANY WEBSITES..THEN BOMBARDS YOU WITH UNSTOPPABLE POP-UPS, TELLING YOU TO PURCHASE THE PRODUCT. IT IS ON MANY WEBSITES THAT IT IS IN FACT MALWAR. I CANT BELIEVE HOW GULLIBLE PEOPLE ARE. THIS MANY OF YOU REALLY FALL FOR THIS STUFF…WOW. IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME, TRY GOOGLING “HOW TO REMOVE QAUKE MALWARE”.
    FOR EVERYONE THAT BOUGHT THIS PRODUCT..PLEASE SLAP YOURSELF ….

    NOW

    🙂

  9. alexa is malware my friend!! it ur sends data back thru internet

  10. ok geeks.. just revert your hard drive a day before you received your infection and no more problems! duh

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