ACTMON Problem

[jlbovo]

hi i am new and i have a problem. i downloaded a keyboard logger for my computer. it was called ACTMON, it was part of a whole computer securtyi suite. now i am pretty sure that i uninstalled the trial program. but for some reason i still get the pop-up that remind me that "Actmon trial is running" and its drvining me nuts, if anyone can help it'd be apperciated.

-justin

[AnnMarie]

Welcome to CTH jlbovo. Perhaps we can fix the problem with Hijack This. Go here (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/download.php?hijackthis1977.zip) and download the latest version of Hijack This to a new folder on your drive, unzip it and click on scan. Most of the files listed will be harmless and/or required so do not make any changes, just click on Save Log, copy it and post it back in this thread.

[ursus]

Hi,

I had the same problem, i.e. I got this extremely irritating popup, but I could find no application to uninstall.

I ran something like 10 different anti-spyware apps trying to rid my computer of this evil, but no success, untill I dowloaded SafePC.

Using that app, I looked at all running processes. For each process, I simply did a google search, i.e. for the string "ddhelp.exe" etc.

One process did not give any hits on the google search:
vxdkrn.exe

I used SafePC to block that process, and the pop-up stopped popping up.
I then removed the vxdkrn.exe from windows/system/ and rebooted my machine, and the popup seem to have vanished for good.

There were a number of other vxdkrn-files, assorted dlls and stuff, but as I am not sure what they do, I left them in the system folder.

A word of warning: DO NOT set SafePC to run on windows startup.

When I did that, SafePC and the popup-application clashed and my computer completely froze, and I could not do anything but reboot, only to get the same result over and over again.

I finally got out from that loop by pressing ctrl-alt-delete during the later stages of bootup, and killing the SafePC application.