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June 23, 2013
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Anchor.Hss - spyware?

  • June 23, 2013
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Hello, I scanned my computer, and  Spybot has detected spyware Anchor.HSS every time I used it. It belongs   to: PUPSC - it stands for potentionally unwanted program.

By searching for .hss on google, I found out .hss belongs to Adobe.

I  use other programs to detect malware/virus/spyware/adaware as well.  Programs are Spybot SD2, Malwarebytes, Advanced SystemCare 6, IOBit  MalwareFighter, AVG, Super AntiSpyware. Only Spybot SD (1 - the old one)  has detected the same problem again and again.

Every time I  decide to scan my computer, I go to safe mod, since it is able to catch  more unwanted stuff in my PC. Only spyware I have ever had problem  removing was this one.

I looked at malware removal guide - Anchor.Hss thread here:

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread...for-Anchor-Hss but none of what  was mentioned there I found anywhere on my PC. I checked regedit, I  checked appdata,etc.

Not sure where can I located sysdir though, is it basically system32 folder? I checked that one, nothing there either.

Spyware still keeps coming back :/.

Any suggestions please? Is Anchor.Hss harmless or harmful? Does it actually belong to you?

I   have noticed Adobe Acrobat among addons in Firefox, I think it asked me  for update few days ago, I declined it, and I can still see it asking  for update among Firefox Addons.

Thanks.                


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Adobe Employee
June 24, 2013

Also, can you please confirm whether you have installed Photoshop and/or Dreamweaver on your system ??

Rgds,

Mukesh

farnholdAuthor
Participant
June 24, 2013

mukeshrshah: No, not at all . I do have adobe reader 9 installed, and then addon on mozilla: Adobe Acrobat 9.3.0.148, and that's it. Nothing else from adobe.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 23, 2013

in what directory is Anchor.Hss?

farnholdAuthor
Participant
June 24, 2013

Kglad: I have no idea which directory, but it is in my pc for sure and keeps reappearing after each restart. Or at least used to.  Hm, it has not showed up during last few restarts and spybot scans. Not sure what happened. I haven't done anything different. I've had this problem for last couple of days though.

Either Adobe fixed it (if it belongs to them) and made it not show up, or spyware (if it does not belong to adobe) received some kind of update so it would not be detectable by spybot.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 24, 2013

didn't spybot indicate its directory?