he said he's already done that to no avail. I would suggest just doing a HJT log if non of the scanners seemed to help.

get spywareblaster and spywareguard from my sig, they are tools that dont scan for, but actively watch to make sure that it isnt put onto the machine so you dont have to worry about it being...

please post all logs in the security section. thats were they go now.

also you should check the run section of his computer, chances are that things riddled with viruses also.

Start>Run>type "regedit" without the quotes

then navigate to the key
...

i would suggest leaving his broswer the same. really i use IE and i havnt got an infection on my computer for months. just some cookies here or there. but i have a pretty good setup on my machine...

try www.sysinfo.org (http://www.sysinfo.org) thats where most check their HJT logs against, its got a fairly complete list of BHO's and startup items, and for anything you cant find. just google it.

R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - _{CFBFAE00-17A6-11D0-99CB-00C04FD64497} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: IE Search Bar - {71ED4FBA-4024-4bbe-91DC-9704C93F453E} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) -...

its always worth a try to see if it will work.

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {249A7517-8A86-9272-9884-347A9D825506} - (no file)

i know this may not be the best solution, but you can try privacy master, its made by asystem and sold through webroot. the program itself is a very powerfull 128bit layerd encryption with...

how to remove web hancer completely


What does remove WebHancer:

Use Ad-Aware to remove WebHancer, remove everything from the 'Communications' section in Windows Setup (Control Panel,...

redownload IE from windows.com and redownload WMP from windows.com reinstall and see if they work.

there are a few tools out there that will do it for you (maxtor has one that comes with its ghosting software when you purchase one of their HDD's)

dont have time to fully go through it. but i can say right now. Fix all 01 entries they are always bad.

ill get to that tonight, the machines giving me alot of problems and i think it has to do alot with the misstreatment of the machine (never got proper attention)

Trying to help a friend with her computer, but the computer needs some serious attention. its been used for a long time without firewall, virus scann, adaware spybot, nothing. so i hope to clean it...

Please move this to the Security forum where it goes. You will get more help there.

i run spywareblaster and adaware and spybot, i run both adaware then spy bot. then i run spyware and check for updates and reimunize if neccesary. that way i dont have to scan very often.
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have you tried adaware, spybot search and destroy, and spyware blaster (keeps it from ever being installed) if those fail to do the trick then hijackthis.

if you take the name of the trojan to symantec they should have an automated solution for you. its one of the great things they do, they write tools to remove a trojan based on type.

when it does show it try to use a camera or somthing to get the number because somtimes it doesnt always stay up long enough to get the number written down. With that number you can get support at...

have you tried pressing any of the F keys (that row of keys above the number keys) some times (the ones near the end F8 and beyong) have special functions with windows (ie hiding parts of them and...

you could probably get more performance by getting more RAM into that computer and purchasing a new CPU celerons are incredibly slow, a 1.8Ghz celereon is like 800Mhz p4

hosts file is located at (win xp that is)

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\

look for a file called host and open with notepad, make sure the only entry not commented (comments are lines...

thank you for all your help, you can mark this as solved, you were able to help him fix all of his problems. :)

OK, heres the new log and the info he gave me



Still having the same problem. I updated windows. I had 3 uninstalls for the Newdotnet and uninstalled them yet the uninstallation file is still...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 6:44:00 PM, on 6/12/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes: ...

it could very much be true. web page loading is not based on connection alone, it could be a better computer, or a computer with less going on in the background so you have more free resources so...

Mozilla, in my opinion is a little bit more clutterd than IE (at least the menus are) but i find that i like it more because of its ease of use, and the fact that if a page isnt there it wont even...

yeah, but when i do there always seems to be some even though i clean them out. ive tried going to IE properties then clearing them out that way, and iv tried using disk cleanup, but there always...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 11:11:21 AM, on 6/5/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

thank you, ill get right on that!

so is this log clean? its not for my computer by my moms as i stated. im just posting this in hopes to get things running better than they are. i ran ad aware and spybot search and destry andremoved...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 7:42:19 PM, on 6/4/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

what the hell. please dont crap my thread with your HJT log file, please create your own Thread for it.

well thats craptacular. how do i put it back? its all already been fixed.

just posting a new log file to make sure that my system is still relativly good and clean

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 3:04:21 PM, on 5/7/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT...

thnx, will do. just curious, what does that osbornTech popupblocker really do?

well, cwshredder couldnt do anything for me, but i was pretty much expecting that to happen....im not sure what it is anymore.

nope not a thing, i dont know whats causing this to happen too, i mean i cant download anything, i click on the link and get the redirect. is there such thing as a virus that mimics other viruses so...