I have been looking for fixes to try and stop the winfixer.exe 2005 pop-up. I can't find it on Microsoft's website, nor on the major anti virus sites. However, the following link raises a grave concern http://forums.spywareinfo.com/lofiversion/index.php/t56383.html Is winfixer.exe widely regarded as a threat? Mike Charles
WinFixer is sold as "useful utility to scan and fix any system, registry and hard drive errors. It ensures system stability and performance." etc. It's also listed as adware in the eTrust Spyware Encyclopedia here, and a Web search shows there are many users desperate to get rid of it. Maybe there's more than one bit of software called WinFixer, but all this creates enough suspicion to suggest it's best avoided.
Looking at successful removals recorded in the various forums, using VundoFix and HiJackThis seems to be a fruitful approach. There's an example with links on the Tom Coyote forum at http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.php?showtopic=48520. I haven't tried this myself, but I have used the Tom Coyote forum and found it reliable.
Has anyone else suffered from WinFixer problems?
