For roughly three weeks I have had a malware program on my laptop pushing out a trogon called fake.alert 2. I have read by means of Tech Republic on the purpose of this malware program to push users to purchase anti-spyware software.
The first I noticed this malware was on my system was numerous adware notices popping up on the system stating that my system was infected with multiple trogons and I needed to attain anti-spyware program to fix it. I had McAfee anti-virus scan my system and it detected some 6 trogons along with a number of cookie type tracking spywares installed. McAfee cleaned them off however the following day they were back. I checked a number of the CNET and ZDNET websites regarding a tool that would remove the malware. Most every source suggested PC Tools Anti-Spyware 2010 or version 3.2. I took out a one year subscription with PC Tools for the Spyware software. The program continuously monitors the system an everyday it detects the Trogon Fake.Alert 2 with at least two infections and a number of tracking cookies in the cookie jar as I call the cookie location. The anti-spyware removes the trogon generated but considers the cookies low priority and will only remove them on a full scan of all files. Therefore the malware is still on my system and is generating more trogons everyday at random times. Since PC Tool Anti-Spyware is not removing the trogon generating program how can I get rid of this program that is generating the trogons and tracking cookies?
I found on the Internet a listing of the binaries and dll’s associated with the fake.alert 2 trogon. However, not of these appear to be on my system. I am using Windows 7 Home premium 64-bit operating system on a Sony Core 2 Dual laptop with 4 GB RAM. What Can I use to permanently remove this malware program?