Santilli
Hairy Aussie
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2002
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Hi
I just went through a really fun experience. I was told I needed a new Code4 to view some windows media player files. I was suspicious, but tried it anyway. WRONG MOVE.
It installed files into my temp folder, in Internet Explorer, that appeared to be linked to a warning about I had spyware, this through a system tray icon, and this would trigger a little program in the temp files that made it look like I had a virus, or Trojan.
As close as I could tell, the systray icon was an invisible program, and, didn't show up in Task manager, but, it accessed the files in the temp folder, making it impossible to delete them.
They all pointed me to this website:
http://www.spywarequake.com/?aff=240
To finally get rid of these files, I did a system restore, back to Saturday.
Along the way to that, I tried deleting the files using regedit, no joy.
I was thinking of restarting in safe mode, and then running Trendmicro, but the system restore was the easiest.
What fun...
S
I just went through a really fun experience. I was told I needed a new Code4 to view some windows media player files. I was suspicious, but tried it anyway. WRONG MOVE.
It installed files into my temp folder, in Internet Explorer, that appeared to be linked to a warning about I had spyware, this through a system tray icon, and this would trigger a little program in the temp files that made it look like I had a virus, or Trojan.
As close as I could tell, the systray icon was an invisible program, and, didn't show up in Task manager, but, it accessed the files in the temp folder, making it impossible to delete them.
They all pointed me to this website:
http://www.spywarequake.com/?aff=240
To finally get rid of these files, I did a system restore, back to Saturday.
Along the way to that, I tried deleting the files using regedit, no joy.
I was thinking of restarting in safe mode, and then running Trendmicro, but the system restore was the easiest.
What fun...
S