Cliff Rohrabacher
03-19-2009, 3:47 PM
Cydoor is a company that makes a little product that you may accidentally install on your PC with some other program especially those freeware programs and hacks by that guy who calls himself F.O.S.I.
At any rate Cydoor grabs your e-mails and other information along with browser and surfing data and sends it to Cydoor who then sells it to marketing geeks who hate humanity and never end with thinking of ways to sell you junk you really don't need.
I got three cydoor event infections on my PC.
PC Tools Spyware Doctor couldn't fix it
Norton 360 couldn't fix it
Both identified it though
On the web there are various walk throughs even one on the Symantec site that purport to walk you through a manual fix and removal. All require that you edit your registry. None of the online instructions were of any use for me because the places they told me to look in my registry for the DLL and other files didn't have any of the named files. They weren't there.
the files (registry entries) in question are:
cd_install_336.exe
cd_*.DLL
cd_clint.dll
cydoor
-and- any name for a Peer-to-Peer software on your computer even if you have never installed it. In my case it was: KaZaA. And I havbe never installed a P-toP network. Peer-to-Peer utilities are the delight of internet criminals who need to use your computer as a ware house for encrypted child porn files. And that's how they gain entry.
I found the CYDOOR entries by hitting CONTROL F (ctl F) while in the registry editor subroutine and doing a 'find" for them using wild card asterisk: "cd*"
I renamed the entries with REM in front of the name which tells the Operating System to ignore those files and that was the end of my CYDOOR infection.
If I had to find them using the biblical method (seek and ye shall find) I'd have never found them 'cause they were buried so deep in the registry.
At any rate Cydoor grabs your e-mails and other information along with browser and surfing data and sends it to Cydoor who then sells it to marketing geeks who hate humanity and never end with thinking of ways to sell you junk you really don't need.
I got three cydoor event infections on my PC.
PC Tools Spyware Doctor couldn't fix it
Norton 360 couldn't fix it
Both identified it though
On the web there are various walk throughs even one on the Symantec site that purport to walk you through a manual fix and removal. All require that you edit your registry. None of the online instructions were of any use for me because the places they told me to look in my registry for the DLL and other files didn't have any of the named files. They weren't there.
the files (registry entries) in question are:
cd_install_336.exe
cd_*.DLL
cd_clint.dll
cydoor
-and- any name for a Peer-to-Peer software on your computer even if you have never installed it. In my case it was: KaZaA. And I havbe never installed a P-toP network. Peer-to-Peer utilities are the delight of internet criminals who need to use your computer as a ware house for encrypted child porn files. And that's how they gain entry.
I found the CYDOOR entries by hitting CONTROL F (ctl F) while in the registry editor subroutine and doing a 'find" for them using wild card asterisk: "cd*"
I renamed the entries with REM in front of the name which tells the Operating System to ignore those files and that was the end of my CYDOOR infection.
If I had to find them using the biblical method (seek and ye shall find) I'd have never found them 'cause they were buried so deep in the registry.