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magicroundabout
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« Reply #30 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:34:44 »

WHY IS IT DRASTIC???
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« Reply #31 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:36:37 »

because i don't have the option to do it on win2k and things i don't know about scare me  Cheesy
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« Reply #32 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:39:41 »

Read my posts, angry boy.
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« Reply #33 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:43:28 »

Something similar happened to me and the only way I could get rid of it was to run anti virus and anti spyware in SAFE MODE.

Restart PC in normal mode and it was ok !

Just a thought.
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« Reply #34 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:45:35 »

I use system restore all the time. Probably about eight times this year.  Cheesy
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ee the trick is only pick on those that can't do you no harm
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« Reply #35 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:47:32 »

I don't trust system restore either.
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« Reply #36 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:47:44 »

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Read my posts, angry boy.


but that is your preference cos you use drive image.

where as i don't and nor does reg i imagine so for us it's fine
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« Reply #37 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 15:52:17 »

Its not, what im saying is to use cleanup and hijackthis, that should show you where the problem lies.

He then may need to run Killbox or silentrunners and find the root.

Its complex, but it removes the virus/spyware, not the last program you installed.
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« Reply #38 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 16:09:45 »

System restore is quite useful some times but no point if it doesn't go back further than last week. It's not really that drastic, you can always reverse it and it doesn't delete any of your stuff.
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« Reply #39 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 16:20:23 »

Well system restore doesn't work, so that's academic....Barry Scott's technique seems a bit complex, I'll leave it for later maybe.....the 3 processes deleted from task manager came back, re deleted them and that sems to have improved things.....just need to get rid permanently.
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« Reply #40 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 16:26:40 »

Sleep  Sleep  Sleep  Sleep  Sleep  Sleep  Sleep
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« Reply #41 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 16:36:07 »

Try the registry cleaner link I posted earlier Reg - at least will help you identify what things are running on startup which will give you some idea of what it is you need to remove
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« Reply #42 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 16:40:05 »

Going to hi-jack your thread....sorry Reg.

Several times in the last day or so AOL keeps loading on it own, and when I try to sign on it says "rasautou has automatically launched AOL to access the internet"

Have run Ad-aware and a virus check but can't find it. What is it? Do I need to delete it?  Shrug
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« Reply #43 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 17:00:24 »

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Try the registry cleaner link I posted earlier Reg - at least will help you identify what things are running on startup which will give you some idea of what it is you need to remove


 Right I've done that, and there was something dodgy which I've deleted, don't think its completely right yet though.
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« Reply #44 on: Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 17:32:06 »

Been mentioned but the obvious one is always add/remove programs and look for any new additions  then browse to your 'program files' folder and see if there's anything in there that doesn't belong.

What are the popups directing you to?

If it's specific site you can usually google it to get some info.
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