Ok - Yes I screwed up. Now I need some help extricating myself. I downloaded something and clicked to expand it. AVG sounded the alarm; too late.
Now I've got that 'd.exe'and 'a.dat'. I can't del or earase d.exe. I can do either to a.dat but, from the time stamp, you can see another file is fetched. Ads open in IE(6.0.29).Of course unclicking it in msconfig is useless - see below. The similar one underneath (last line in msconfigimage) does stay unclicked. That was the original, but rebooting has spawned its evil, persistant clone.
In regedit I can delete the HKCU entry, but on reboot it's back.
This is a fresh install and it loaded very quickly. Now it is appreciably slower so I'm concerned that there is something else I haven't found yet - like the dreaded root kit :-( Or possibly it's just rebuilding itself after I try to knock it down.
While I was typing this up in Notepad IE poped up and ran an ad for Jabra Stone from AT&T, a full blown, professional flash presentation complete with audio. Down and dirty I can just do another wipe and load; I would prefer to profit from my mistake by learning how to deal with this more elegantly.
Thanks - helen
PS Here is an image and be sure to ask for any additional info if you need it HNC
Now I've got that 'd.exe'and 'a.dat'. I can't del or earase d.exe. I can do either to a.dat but, from the time stamp, you can see another file is fetched. Ads open in IE(6.0.29).Of course unclicking it in msconfig is useless - see below. The similar one underneath (last line in msconfigimage) does stay unclicked. That was the original, but rebooting has spawned its evil, persistant clone.
In regedit I can delete the HKCU entry, but on reboot it's back.
This is a fresh install and it loaded very quickly. Now it is appreciably slower so I'm concerned that there is something else I haven't found yet - like the dreaded root kit :-( Or possibly it's just rebuilding itself after I try to knock it down.
While I was typing this up in Notepad IE poped up and ran an ad for Jabra Stone from AT&T, a full blown, professional flash presentation complete with audio. Down and dirty I can just do another wipe and load; I would prefer to profit from my mistake by learning how to deal with this more elegantly.
Thanks - helen
PS Here is an image and be sure to ask for any additional info if you need it HNC
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