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Rich Barry,
Many thanks and "May 2005 be a better year for you and your family"
"Rich Barry" wrote:
> Keith, try these websites. They are free and work very well. Also rt
> click MyComputer>select Properties>System Restore and check the box "Turn
> Off System Restore on All Drives"
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http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
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> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
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> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
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http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
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> "Keith" <Keith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4A942202-D34F-4AAF-9D3D-F6FE12F34E14@microsoft.com...
> > Rich Barry
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> > As it stand now, in the msconfig, its uncheck for the few items I
> > mentioned
> > before.
> > I suppose I will do another 'Housecall/micro trend' scan and for those it
> > says 'it cannot be clean', do I then delete them. This infected hdd, I
> > suppose I have to 'Disable the system restore' before attached as
> > secondary
> > hdd and scan. (earlier scan I did not 'Disable SR' Please advice as I do
> > not
> > know much about pc, many thanks.
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> > "Rich Barry" wrote:
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> >> Keith, with the additional info you sent the sys32snd.exe is
> >> installed
> >> by a Worm.
> >>
http://startup.iamnotageek.com/srch-sys32snd.exe.html
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> >> "Keith" <Keith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:E29DE243-D827-4F53-82CC-FE0BAB5AE06C@microsoft.com...
> >> > The 'Userinit' is current having data as
> >> > "C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe",
> >> > so don't know whats wrong with the pc.
> >> >
> >> > Feel strange, normally you expect when we type 'regedit, it will give
> >> > us
> >> > the
> >> > main 5 root directory, but just now when I typed 'regedit', it came
> >> > straight
> >> > to the place where I last visited. Does it seems right?
> >> >
> >> > May I just add, the first time I boot up after the scan, it give
> >> > messages
> >> > like "Window cannot find 'win ssv.exe' Make sure you typed the name
> >> > corrrectly & try again........'". It has a box for you to click 'ok'.
> >> > which I
> >> > did.
> >> > When I click 'ok', there are other messages like [[
> >> > ' ... cannot find sys32snd.exe...',
> >> > ' ... cannot find xpndis.exe.....',
> >> > ' ... cannot find tvl.exe...',
> >> > ' ... spoolsvc.exe...'. ]]
> >> > However, since then when I reboot after the above few messages does not
> >> > appear any more. I hope the above will be of help as how we can prevent
> >> > the
> >> > "My Document" from appearing automatically. Please help and many
> >> > thanks.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Rich Barry" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Keith, go to Start>Run type: regedit and Navigate to
> >> >>
> >> >> Using Regedit, change the following key:
> >> >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENT
> >> >> VERSION\WINLOGON
> >> >> Change USERINIT from
> >> >> C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,c:\windows\system32\userinit.exe to
> >> >> C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,
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> >> >>
> >> >> "Keith" <Keith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:6F84F46C-A1EA-46B3-8849-EA1E089695F3@microsoft.com...
> >> >> > Just done a spring cleaning of my XP Home with various anti virus,
> >> >> > and
> >> >> > those
> >> >> > cannot be cleaned were deleted. However upon reboot each time, the
> >> >> > My
> >> >> > Documents dialogue page will automatically appear (where you can see
> >> >> > the
> >> >> > My
> >> >> > Music folder, My Picture folder etc).
> >> >> > Please advice how do I stop this from appearing by itself.
> >> >> > Appreciate
> >> >> > your
> >> >> > assistance
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