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winlogon keyhook
I've been fighting adware on my computer furiously for a while now, and
gotten pretty good at deleting it, but now that i have windows xp, there's certain files i can't delete because windows loads them before i ever log in.. namely, i have a file called cg.dat located in the folder c:\documents and setting\~Smurf~\local settings\temp that i'm not sure exactly what it is, but has been positively identified as deffinate malware/adware. i've tried deleting the winlogon notification in the registry, but since the file is loaded, it just reinserts it into the registry as soon as i delete it. please help!!!!!!! |
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winlogon keyhook
"~Smurf~" wrote in message ... I've been fighting adware on my computer furiously for a while now, and gotten pretty good at deleting it, but now that i have windows xp, there's certain files i can't delete because windows loads them before i ever log in.. namely, i have a file called cg.dat located in the folder c:\documents and setting\~Smurf~\local settings\temp that i'm not sure exactly what it is, but has been positively identified as deffinate malware/adware. i've tried deleting the winlogon notification in the registry, but since the file is loaded, it just reinserts it into the registry as soon as i delete it. please help!!!!!!! Smurf, Killing the associated process in Task Manager before removing the reg entry may work, or you may well find that there is another process monitoring for it being killed, which will simply relaunch it. Booting into Safe Mode to perform your removal usually does the trick. Failing this I'd use a DOS boot disc to access the file without having to open up Windows. If you're still stuck I can highly recommend this Technet video on advanced malware cleaning: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itssho...px?videoid=359 Ed Metcalfe. |
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