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This is the removal process I’ve used for this piece of malware. Since it hooks the .exe extension in the registry launching AV apps can be difficult. If you’re not careful with Autoruns and the registry you can brick your Windows install. I take no responsibility if that happens to you.

If you use Process Explorer while it is running on a machine you will find where it is.
C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Local Settings\Application Data
- MSASCui.exe (XP Guardian 2010)
- AVE.EXE (XP AntiSpyware 2010)
- o7yIC10ETb (or some other randomly named file)

If you kill the process tree and move fast before it can restart you can delete the files. It also makes a few changes to the Registry, which Malwarebytes will find. Basically you want to export these keys from a good machine and import them into the bad machine.
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe

- Run Autoruns and look for gibberish DLL files and delete them.
- Run a follow up scan with Malwarebytes to make sure everything is gone.
- Double check your Security Center/Firewall/Automatic Updates settings to make sure they’re where they need to be.

If we can buy something at Target, we do. (Since we have a discount it would be foolish not to). Over time Target’s organic offerings have grown to the point where I can satisfy most of my culinary needs save for a few things that I go to Whole Foods for. (Meat is usually one them). I tried to find a ham at Target, there was plenty of selection, but every single offering had sodium nitrite added and usually some other preservatives. Sodium nitrites are a carcinogen and linked to various forms of cancer. It’s not good. Your body doesn’t want or need it. To make things worse, meats that commonly have nitrites/nitrates added to them probably came from animals raised on feed lots, not free range animals. But Pat, organic and free range food is too expensive and I’m not convinced it’s that much better. I find that line of thinking interesting. I can’t think of any investment that’s more important than your own body. Without your health you’ve got nothing. The nice car, career, clothes, house, boat, and ability to travel all go out the window if you’re sick or dead. Yes, I know, I sound radical. But sometimes radical thinking is what’s needed in a crisis, and boy is this country in a food crisis. The notion of what is “normal” food is so completely out of alignment with what your body actually needs and wants. So, my challenge to all of you out there is to keep track of the ingredients in your food over the course of a week. How many dyes, preservatives, and additives are you actually taking in? If what you come up with looks like notes from a chemistry class then maybe it’s time to rethink the way you’re fueling your body. To better food.

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