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Spyaxe Spytrooper spysherriff et al removal

There are so many "wolves in sheeps clothing" or maybe I should say wolves in sheepdogs clothing... Anyway, so many nasty malware's that pose as protective utilities. Spyaxe, spytrooper, spy sherriff…

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Avery J. Parker

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There are so many "wolves in sheeps clothing" or maybe I should say wolves in sheepdogs clothing... Anyway, so many nasty malware's that pose as protective utilities. Spyaxe, spytrooper, spy sherriff, etc. There is a tool that is specialized towards removing these. Smitrem which is short for smitfraud removal. (After the viral name of one of the first of this class of rogue.)


It should be unpacked on the desktop, the system rebooted in safe mode and then run the "runthis.bat" from the extraction. It's recommended that you either consult help, or know what you're doing to use this utility.