These are the "standard" instructions on an antispyware
forum concerning SpyAxe :
"INSTRUCTIONS:
A. Download and/or update the following programs. Install them but do NOT run them yet.
Please download HijackThis© Merijn from:
http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/HJTsetup.exe .
Note: This is a complete installer that installs HijackThis to your computer at C:\Program Files\HijackThis, making an entry in the start menu and also providing a desktop shortcut. If HijackThis is used from a temp folder, it is in danger of being accidentally deleted by clean up tools.
At the download prompt, choose "Save". After the download is complete, navigate to the C:\Program Files\HijackThis folder and double-click it to complete the installation.
Please download smitRem.exe ©noahdfear. Save it to your desktop, then double-click the file and click Start to extract the files to their own folder.
Alternate download site for smitRem© fix: smitRem.exe
Place a shortcut to Panda ActiveScan on your desktop.
Please download Ewido security suite it is a free version of the program.
Install Ewido security suite
When installing, under "Additional Options" uncheck..
Install background guard
Install scan via context menu
Launch Ewido, there should be an icon on your desktop, double-click it.
The program will now open to the main screen.
When you run Ewido for the first time, you may get a warning "Database could not be found!". Click OK. We will fix this in a moment.
You will need to update Ewido to the latest definition files.
On the left hand side of the main screen click update.
Then click on Start Update.
The update will start and a progress bar will show the updates being installed.
(the status bar at the bottom will display "Update successful")
If you are having problems with the updater, you can use this link to manually update Ewido.
Ewido manual updates
If you have not already installed Ad-Aware SE 1.06, please download it from target="_blank" class="postlink">here or one of the mirror sites on the right-hand side of this page. Follow the instructions here. Don't run it yet!
B. Double-click the HijackThis icon on your desktop. Choose "Do a system scan and save logfile". Select a name for this first logfile.
C. Next, please reboot your computer in SafeMode by doing the following:
Restart your computer
After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, begin tapping F8.
Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear
Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode.
D. Run smitRem
Open the smitRem folder
Double-click the RunThis.bat file to start the tool
Follow the prompts on screen.
Wait for the tool to complete and disk cleanup to finish.
The tool will create a log named smitfiles.txt in the root of your drive, eg; Local Disk C: or partition where your operating system is installed. Please post that log along with all others requested in your post.
E. Launch Ad-Aware SE and do a full scan. Remove all it finds.
F. Shutdown/Restart in SafeMode as instructed above. Run Ewido:
Open Ewido and click on scanner
Click on Complete System Scan and the scan will begin.
While the scan is in progress you will be prompted to clean files, click OK
When it asks if you want to clean the first file, put a check in the lower left corner of the box that says "Perform action on all infections" then choose clean and click OK.
Once the scan has completed, there will be a button located on the bottom of the screen named Save report
Click Save report.
Save the report .txt file to your desktop, or any other easily accessible location.
Now close Ewido security suite.
G. Next go to Control Panel click Display > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Web > Uncheck "Security Info" or anything similar if present.
H. Reboot back into Windows and click the Panda ActiveScan shortcut, then do a full system scan. Make sure the autoclean box is checked! "
