mgrs.exe - nasty trojan, need help removing crapware?

Zardon · Jul 2, 2007, 07:24 PM

Well I woke up today in a bit of a pickle. to cut a long story short, I noticed one of my machines had been infected with "mgrs.exe" a rather nasty trojan. ill not detail how it happened, but lets put it down to "user error".

anyway, it was hogging 10% cpu usage and 250 meg of ram, while forcing IE to hog over 1 gigabyte (and expanding all the time). Not only this but whenever you would force it to quit it would restart, and no matter what app I used (and trust me I tried a ton) it would never totally clean this nasty little turd from my system (windows vista 64bit incidentally).

Anyway i eventually found a marvellous application that totally eradicated it, and also found about 30-40 tracking crapware that no other application had. http://www.superantispyware.com/

Don't be put off by the rather amateurish looking site, this application is one of the best I have ever used. the free version works great, and the pro has some added benefits (real time protection etc). It also fully supports Vista and 64 bit OS.

If you are having spyware issues, or a slow system on some level, i strongly recommend you install the free version of this application and give it a whirl. I cant believe the crap it has found on 3 or 4 of my constantly on systems. Systems I figured were clean (with 3 or 4 other anti spyware apps running).

be sure to turn on "scan for tracking cookies" as well as "terminate memory threats before quarantining".

Necrosis · Jul 3, 2007, 01:27 AM

Wow actually supports Vista while being free...I'll have to try it.

Judas · Jul 3, 2007, 02:42 AM

hmmm

Necrosis · Jul 3, 2007, 03:19 AM

Takes quite a long time to scan on my main PC. Have you ever used Spyware Doctor?

Judas · Jul 3, 2007, 07:03 AM

I've been running a scan for ages, it picked up 8 adware tracking cookies..... waiting for it to finish, but for the last 2 hours i've been running it, that's all it's found so far....

i'm currious what cookies they are

Judas · Jul 3, 2007, 07:22 AM

AHA... finallyfinished,

just the 8 cookies..

5 of which have divx in the name... ?

either way, i'd considering these exceptionally low threat.... considering that all i have to do is delete history (which i do on a regular bases)...

I feel a little more confident now.

Jul 2, 2007, 07:24 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	mgrs.exe - nasty trojan, need help removing crapware? Well I woke up today in a bit of a pickle. to cut a long story short, I noticed one of my machines had been infected with "mgrs.exe" a rather nasty trojan. ill not detail how it happened, but lets put it down to "user error". anyway, it was hogging 10% cpu usage and 250 meg of ram, while forcing IE to hog over 1 gigabyte (and expanding all the time). Not only this but whenever you would force it to quit it would restart, and no matter what app I used (and trust me I tried a ton) it would never totally clean this nasty little turd from my system (windows vista 64bit incidentally). Anyway i eventually found a marvellous application that totally eradicated it, and also found about 30-40 tracking crapware that no other application had. http://www.superantispyware.com/ Don't be put off by the rather amateurish looking site, this application is one of the best I have ever used. the free version works great, and the pro has some added benefits (real time protection etc). It also fully supports Vista and 64 bit OS. If you are having spyware issues, or a slow system on some level, i strongly recommend you install the free version of this application and give it a whirl. I cant believe the crap it has found on 3 or 4 of my constantly on systems. Systems I figured were clean (with 3 or 4 other anti spyware apps running). be sure to turn on "scan for tracking cookies" as well as "terminate memory threats before quarantining".

Jul 3, 2007, 01:27 AM	#2
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 129 System Specs	Wow actually supports Vista while being free...I'll have to try it.

Jul 3, 2007, 03:19 AM	#4
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 129 System Specs	Takes quite a long time to scan on my main PC. Have you ever used Spyware Doctor?