Hi forum friends,
A malware remover may ask you to use "Defogger" in the cleansing routine of rogue.agent/gen.nullo for instance (recently back);
this as an initial part of such a cleansing routine.
What is this all about?
The tool is to temporarily stop the legitimate drivers used by CD Emulators,
so they cannot interfere with investigative tools we use to detect the real baddies.
This tool by jpshortstuff can be downloaded here
http://www.jpshortstuff.247fixes.com/Defogger.exeSo save it to your desktop.
Now double click on Defogger to run this tool.
With Vista and on W7 you need to run it with full administrative rights.
Now the application window will appear.
Click the Disable button to disable your CD Emulation drivers.
Click Yes to continue.
A 'Finished!' message will appear.
Click OK...Defogger will now ask to reboot the machine...click OK.
If not, reboot manually. Do not re-enable these drivers until instructed or your system has been fully cleansed.
N.B. If you receive an error message while running Defogger, please post the log defogger_disable which will appear on your desktop.
In back enabling the drivers with Defogger, you might have to delete and re-install defogger again to perform re-enabling. This could happen in some cases.
The application window will appear.
You click the Re-enable button to re-enable your CD Emulation drivers.
Then click Yes to continue.
A 'Finished!' message will appear.
Now click OK
Defogger will now ask to reboot the machine, click OK,
That is all, if asked you now know what this is all about,
polonus