OK. Sorry to see that junk show up again. There is obviously something I'm missing and rather than us both spending a lot of time spinning our...
I'm guessing you are running better already but still some work to be done here. Download CWShredder and save it to your desktop. Run...
Hi tanman and welcome to the forum. A format and clean install would probably be faster than going after the bad stuff piece by piece....
Download CWShredder and save it to your desktop. Run HJT and have it fix R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar =...
Msconfig for 2K or you can do it the old fashioned way and just watch carefully when you boot. Varies with different systems but some F key will...
XP-pro - good. Makes things easier. XP-home lacks the utility for doing this. From a command prompt (start~run~cmd to start the 32bit...
A few thoughts for you. Is your Spybot version 1.3? If not, you want to upgrade. With this one you will need to uninstall any earlier version...
hicerro - welcome to the forum and nice catch on that nasty piece of work. And I agree, the malware authors are getting more clever. Luckily, so...
Appreciate that. He is really eaten up and it may take some doing to get the PC completely clean for him.
The reinstall may well have caused the problem. Especially if you did not format the partition you were putting XP on. Everest should give you...
Interesting. Hadn't run across that one before. Thanks for posting back with the fix.
What OS are you running? (and if XP, home or pro)
Do the following in the order listed. You probably want to print a copy of this to have while you are doing the cleaning. Run an online virus...
IE 5.5 SP1 is an excellent suggestion. 6.0 with the latest SP is probably an even better version since they have continued to harden IE against a...
I agree about the administrator account. I'm not sure if you even could delete it but if you were able to, it would be a very bad thing to do....
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBL/tip5500/rh5568.htm
smhouston - you may not be doing anything wrong with the ipconfig results. Just that I've never seen one missing some of the parts. Mine looks...
I don't know of any and at a guess, there probably is no reasonable way to do it.
Not only does it look lots better but my guess is the machine is running quite a bit better as well. For keeping things clean, updating and...
You can probably get at least a half dozen opinions on how to best arrange your PC in terms of drives, partitions, and what to put where. All...
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