MBS Account Manager is a program from Micro Bill Systems in the UK. The program provides billing and collection services for websites (mostly adult in nature). This software is potentially unwanted as apart from constantly displaying demands for money for it’s services, attempts to install further unwanted components using ActiveX. MBS Account Manager will display a bill as a pop-up, when the bill is ignored, the popups become more frequent.
A HijackThis log will show two running processes and a Startup entry similar to one of these:
O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [mbssm32] C:\WINDOWS\system32\mbssm32.exe
O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [mbssm32] C:\WINDOWS\system32\smvalid.exe
4 months ago, i have wrote about MBS spyware , if old instructions don`t work, try next steps:
1. Download the Brute Force Uninstaller to your desktop.
Right click the BFU folder on your desktop, and choose Extract All. Click “Next” and then in the box to choose where to extract the files to, Click “Browse”. Click on the + sign next to “My Computer”. Click “Next”, and Uncheck the “Show Extracted Files” box and then click “Finish”.
2. Download the MicroBill Removal script. Save it in the same folder you made earlier (c:\BFU). Then, please go to Start > My Computer and navigate to the C:\BFU folder. Start the Brute Force Uninstaller by double-clicking BFU.exe
3. Behind the scriptline to execute field click the folder icon and select mbs.bfu. Press Execute and let the program do it’s job. (You ought to see a progress bar if you did this correctly.) Wait for the complete script execution box to pop up and press OK. Press exit to terminate the BFU program.
4. Restart your computer.
If you are still having problems with spyware after completing these instructions, then please follow the steps outlined in the topic linked below Spyware removal – Read Before Posting.
downloaded your brute force uninstaller and it worked a treat. Thanks a bunch.
Jim
Brute Force Uninstaller did the job for me. Thanks.
Unfortunately this did not work for me.
Updated and ran Spybot Search & Destroy which picked it up. Removed no worries.
Brute Force did the trick for me.Thank you very much for extricating me from the evil pop up
Many thanks Brute Force seems to have done the biz, used the companies Spybot first, but that did not help. Again many thanks, pop up was locked for up to 10mins, a real pain in the bottom
Downloaded the Brute Force Uninstaller and it seems to have worked for me. Tried AVG as recommended from the web but didn\’t work. Many thanks for the advice
verry good
After months of being saddled with MBS every time I turned on my PC, Brute Force has got rid of it. Wonderful! We need more guys like you around to rescue the victims like me!
I downloaded Brute Force Uninstaller and the Microbill Removal Script. Ran the program and it did the job as required. Many thanks!
glad to help 🙂
ive had mbs for months and was looking at complicated steps on how to remove it.i never understood the steps so i left it. these steps were easy the whole thing took under a minute. i hope mbs doesnt pop up again.
MBS haunted me 2 years ago so i paid a bill for a site i did not go on, it went away and has just came up. i was forced to buy norton security 2009, it worked but now i know i could’ve used brute force
Fantastic, it works like a charm and even I managed to do it.
Thank you agian for the tip.