007guard How to remove?

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I find in the Task Manager/Resource Manager/Network that www.007guard.com is listed as sucking up a lot of resouorces and I notice that IE8 is really --no, REALLY--slow.

However, Windows Defender, AVG, MalwareBytes, SUPERantivirus, SpyBot, Ad-Aware ---all are useless at getting rid of it.

How do I remove it?
 

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I decided to do a re-install of W7 and it is gone now.

I'll just have to be more selective in clicking webiste links.

Thanks.
 

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007guard is back!! -ahhh!

Help.

How do I get rid of this piece of crap? Every google result merely leads to another anti-malware offer for products that don't get rid of this problem.

Any thoughts appreicated.
 

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windows 7 64bit
Hello jrcallen, and welcome to the Seven Forums :party:

I would suggest you run full scans with Spybot Search & Destroy and Malwarebytes

The home of Spybot-S&D!

Malwarebytes.org

you could also try the rouge remover tool at malwarebytes

All these programs are free for personal use
 

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It sounds like your browser has been 'hijacked'. What search engine are you using? Are you being redirected?
 

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Thanks.

I believe tht SpyBot has taken care of re-directing the malware back to my computer, but I still want to get rid of it. I will re-install W7 without carrying over my system settings, and see if a clean install eliminates the problem.
 

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jrcallan said:
Thanks.

I believe tht SpyBot has taken care of re-directing the malware back to my computer, but I still want to get rid of it. I will re-install W7 without carrying over my system settings, and see if a clean install eliminates the problem.
Click to expand...
Sounds like a good idea! ... let us know if that did the trick or not.
 

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Re-installing has resulted in no 007guard listing in the Resource Monitor of Task Manager. But I believe the reason for that is that I did not re-install SpyBot. I'm going to try life wothout it.

Thanks.
 

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Download these two programs ... you won't need Spybot s&d. Your Hosts file will be protected with these apps.
SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/products.html
Spyware Guard is a real-time malware scanner
SpywareBlaster tutorial:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/Using_SpywareBlaster_to_protect_your_computer_from_Spyware_Hijackers_and_Malware-tut49.html
SpywareGuard tutorial:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/Using_SpywareGuard_to_protect_your_computer_from_Spyware_and_Hijackers-tut50.html

You can also use Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware for free. Just be sure to update it before scanning.
|MG| Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.34




 

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Not a problem

You do not have 007guard.com on your system
here is what is happening

SPYbot S&D has a glitch, it blocks 007guard.com
it does this by putting in your host file the entry
127.0.0.1 www.007guard.com

as this is the first entry in the host file it reports all connections to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) as going to www.007guard.com

edit the hostfile and add

127.0.0.1 000-localhost.com

at the very top....
 

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MioNet

You guys have a Western Digital Drive? Or use MioNet to access anything?
 

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theresajayne said:
You do not have 007guard.com on your system
here is what is happening

SPYbot S&D has a glitch, it blocks 007guard.com
it does this by putting in your host file the entry
127.0.0.1 www.007guard.com

as this is the first entry in the host file it reports all connections to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) as going to www.007guard.com

edit the hostfile and add

127.0.0.1 000-localhost.com

at the very top....
Click to expand...


When hosts file is unchanged the first, and only, line is

127.0.0.1 localhost

so you can add it at the beginning of a long list of entries from SpyBot and voila, problem solved. You can change it to 000-localhost.com as well but it's better to change the entry to the original one.

Anyway, thanks for that - I needed it.
 

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