Along with the dark side pushing cracks, warez, keygens for rogue programs (perhaps to dupe people into thinking the programs have value), there are also many untrustworthy sites offering to remove it. From the frying pan into the fire.
From Bleeping Computer:
This infection attempts to make it difficult to uninstall by disabling the Windows regedit.exe program and the Windows Task Manager. This makes it so you can’t edit your registry with RegEdit or kill processes that may be running with the Task Manager. As part of this fix, I have created a small tool called regallow that will re-enable the use of RegEdit so that this infection can be properly removed.
How to remove AntiSpySpider and sockins32.dll
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/antispyspider
If you have an infected computer and would feel more comfortable being assisted by a trained malware remover helper, please start a topic at one of the forums. Short but trusted list in the right hand column.
