re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 12:00 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by James C. (4 messages posted) Thanks for your help. I followed you instructions but in the line "shell=..." the text openme does not appear. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks again James C. On Monday, March 10, 2003 at 10:31 pm, Carol wrote: > >W32.dss.Trojan: >Openme.exe.... It's an advertising trojan and according to the below website, it >can try to install a web dialer. > >Try the instr. below, and post back, if you still have problems. "Be sure to export >the key" before you delete it, if you're not used to editing the registry. Use caution. > >Follow up with an online scan at either one of these links. > >Panda Active Scan > >Trend Micro Housecall > >Remove Openme.exe: > >Symantec-W32.dss.trojan > >Go to Start/run, and type Regedit. >You'll see an Windows-Explorer type interface. >Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\current version\Winlogon. > >Click on it once, in order to highlight it, and to display its contents in the right >pane. You'll see a 'default' value Shell=Explorer.exe Openme.exe. Right click it, >and choose 'rename'. Edit it so it reads Shell=Explorer.exe exclusively, close Regedit, >and reboot. > >http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm > > > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Ms. Eagle: Monday, March 10, 2003 at 10:31 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Ms. Eagle: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 12:13 am) Spybot S&D instructions... (Ms. Eagle: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 at 12:18 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (James C.: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 9:03 pm) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Ms. Eagle: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 10:31 pm) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (James C.: Tue, Mar 11, 2003, 12:00 am) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Ms. Eagle: Tue, Mar 11, 2003, 12:13 am) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (James C.: Tue, Mar 11, 2003, 12:18 am) Run Spybot S&D, etc. :) (n/t) (Ms. Eagle: Tue, Mar 11, 2003, 12:25 am) Spybot S&D instructions... (Ms. Eagle: Tue, Mar 11, 2003, 12:18 am) And also..... (JmC: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 10:40 pm) re: And also..... (James C.: Tue, Mar 11, 2003, 12:03 am) re: And also..... (retired: Tue, Mar 11, 2003, 5:14 am) re: Question about 'How do I stop a program from running whenever I start Windows?' (Balaji Subbaraman: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 10:40 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum