Ouch: How do I remove Yield Manager?

Sukhjit S®² h4x0r2008-01-13T15:54:44Z

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This details how I was able to remove one of my most difficult spyware popup infections to date: ad.yieldmanager.com.

This insidious spyware was extremely persistent, avoiding cleaning by my normal set of favorite cleaners: Kaspersky, AVG Antivirus, AVG Antispyware, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Panda Online, HijackThis, l2mfix, VundoFix, Easy Cleaner, CleanUp!, and ewido.net.

At first it was even difficult to identify the type of spyware because the popups didn’t leave many clues other than an occasional “New Offer” popup window. However, after letting the PC system “ferment” a little to let the spyware infestation spread, the ad.yieldmanager.com signature appeared in one of the windows.

The best removal sequence I found came mostly from this site: http://www.pchell.com/support/smitfraud.shtml where I followed the steps for removing SmitFraud. I took a guess on this because I saw an earlier SpySheriff infection on the system and I was thinking that perhaps it was not entirely removed.

The set of cleaners I ran from Safe Mode in this order were:

SmitRem by NoahdFear - http://noahdfear.geekstogo.com/

SmitFraudFix - http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php

RogueRemover - http://www.majorgeeks.com/RogueRemover_d5360.html

Aproposfix - http://swandog46.geekstogo.com/aproposfix.exe


CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/

CleanUp! - http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/download.html

Easy Cleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

Of the set of cleaners I ran, I think RogueRemover and Aproposfix were the critical programs for this particular spyware infection.

After running all these cleaners the ad.yieldmanager.com spyware was removed completely.

Anonymous2015-01-25T19:16:50Z

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Anica2016-05-16T15:18:41Z

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Anonymous2015-01-24T10:18:53Z

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MINDDOCTOR2008-01-13T15:53:19Z

Download the free version of Superantispyware. Update and run an indepth scan. Recommend that you reboot. This free software is well known to find what all other miss or unable to delete. http://www.superantispyware.com

Minddoctor, France

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