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re: Tweak
Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 8:57 pm
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Posted by DEX (11739 messages posted)


AKB 

Virus ,Trojan Horse
Backdoor.Subwoofer allows a hacker to remotely control an infected computer. 

To remove from your machine do this

Click Start, and click Run. The Run dialog box appears. 
Type regedit and then click OK. The Registry Editor opens. 
Navigate to the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

In the right pane, delete the value

Tweak UI          "RunDLL32 tweakUI.DLL, TWEAKUI /tweakmeup"

Navigate to the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

In the right pane, delete the value

Scheduling Agent        "Scheduler.exe"

Click Registry, and click Exit.

Reboot check again to see if it's back in the reg.file..
Now download Spybot from the net install it reboot into safe mode ( F8 key at boot 
up ) run Spybot
Then turn around and tells the kids NO No No please...to much work for dad to fix....but 
love ya you little shits,,
I got 4 of them " rug rats..."
hope this helps

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.subwoofer.html





On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 7:59 am, AKB wrote: >Thanks to one of my kids surfing the Web, my PC now automatically logs into AOL via >what appears to be a scheduled program and brings up a rather unsavory website. >I'm try to locate the delete the offending program. Could it be RUNDLL32.EXE TWEAKUI.CPL,TweakMeUp? > If not, other ideas? Thanks.



Written in response to:
Tweak (AKB: Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 7:59 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Tweak (AKB: Friday, January 30, 2004 at 3:21 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Tweak (AKB: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 7:59 am)
-re: Tweak (werner: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 9:57 am)
*re: Tweak (ColinB: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 2:22 pm)
-re: Tweak (DEX: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 8:57 pm)
-re: Tweak (AKB: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 3:21 pm)
*re: Tweak (DEX: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 5:06 pm)
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