I've got a friend who keeps getting a link posted in his profile everytime he signs on.
The text is like "Whoah look at what I found!" and it's some link to a site.
He's tried deleting it and restarting, but it comes right back. Also I told him to sweep his comp with ad aware to clean out his registry. That didn't work either.
I was having this problem as well. Someone told me to do the following, and so far it has been working:
This just happened to me today, but the file that causes the problem is in C:Windows and its named "b.exe"
If the remove thing didnt work, there will be a running process named simply B. End that and then delete b.exe and all the copies it makes of itself (I know it sometimes puts one in program files)
Go to Start
Run
put it regedit
double-click on HKEY_USERS
double-click on S-1-5-21-2832471526-3054548624-236718858-1003
double-click on Software
double-click on Microsoft
double-click on Search Assistant
doulbe-click on ACMru
Click on 5604
Then delete b.exe and b
a friend of mine had this in her profile and i went to the page and got the fix from the page, then i ran adaware and it hasnt come back. a few people i know also have it
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