I see it would be a good time to post in these forums a warning, about a person who uses the user names Tron and Powertron. I assist in many forums such as this; forums where trained individuals who have been certified to provide anti-malware assistance give good advice and bring about positive solutions. At one of these forums a Member named Powertron had been requesting assistance frequently with infection on his system. So I was surprised when recently in a Google search I saw Tron and his posting links to his Powertron site, posting here, not requesting assistance like he usually does, but pretending to provide assistance, as if he were another trained expert. If anyone would like to check on that, just do a Google search using these two words together "powertron hijackThis". Ignore any Bullguard links, and what you find are the many posts by this person not providing assistance, but receiving assistance. Many posts.
I checked here further, and sadly enough, I find he not only is pretending to have the knowledge to assist, he is providing bad and system damaging advice, or mistakenly telling people their still infected systems are cleaned.
As I posted in the thread below, Tron gave some terrible advice, which has caused this person to do damage to their delicate Winsock layer (the part of the system where communications with the internet are transferred).
As Tron/Powertron has no training of any kind, he apparently is using one of those HijackThis Analyzer programs, which of course only provide minimal, general guidelines about infections or valid processes. In the thread below, once the HijackThis Analyzer would not provide the information necessary to understand that there was an infected explorer.exe file in the running processes, Tron abandoned the request. Fortunately Touch, the forum Moderator, has stepped in to fix the mess Tron left.
This Tron/Powertron individual also provides links to his domain, where he has a download for what he calls his "Personal Tronbar".
Here (link not active to avoid someone accidentally downloading this garbage)
http://www.freewebs.com/1089downloads/Home.html
Powertron does not provide any details or EULA for this download, which on further investigation is a thinly veiled copy of the EBToolbar search hijacker, which shares server space with the providers of the UCMore infection. Tron/Powertron knows this thing is infection all too well, as he had to get assistance at the following site to have his own infected toolbar removed from his own system
if you have had the misfortune to have this impostor give you repair suggestions and steps, it is best that you stopp immediately following any advice he has given, and start a new request thread, linking back to the one where Tron was getting ready to assist in damaging your system. If this information still has you wondering if this Tron/Powertron person has any malware removal skills whatsoever, simply ask him to provide you with links to where he received his training, and a contact name there. Be very sure the name is of a person who is in a Moderator position, to avoid getting a link to Tron using a different name at a different forum.
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