Category: Spyware

  • Manually Removing Personal Security

    In a post a while back, I wrote about how to remove Personal Security, a rather nasty piece of spyware. I recently had a computer in that was badly infected.   I tried removing it with MBAM, but it kept on returning. Annoyed, and not wanting to do a reinstall, I found a list of…

  • Removing Personal Security

    I’ve recently had a few users call in, telling me that they’ve been infected with Personal Security, a rogue anti-spyware program from the same family as Cyber Security. Luckily, it’s pretty easily removed. Here’s how:   Turn off System Restore on the infected computer Download and run rkill.com, which kills the processes Download and install…