re: Spyware? Random pop-ups when starting IE.
Monday, March 29, 2004 at 7:45 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David
(1 messages posted)
Thank you! I had finally managed to hunt down and kill all the annoying little .exe
files that were causing problems on my ME machine (interesting that it is plaguing
ME and not others?) I had bascially defanged whatever this is, but couldn't get
the .lnk stuff to go away. I had missed one startup directory apparently.
So here's what I ended up doing.
CTRL-ALT-DEL
Kill a task that has called "(some random garbage).exe" like 93kr3223.exe
select run from the start menu. type regedit.
Hit Ctrl-F and search for "runonce"
Right above that folder is a "run" folder these are files that get run every time
you start windows. You'll find that same "(random garbage).exe" located there.
Delete it.
Go to you startup directory and clean out all the .lnk files.
>2nd: Remove all shortcuts to the files in c:\windows\start menu\programs\start up
>
>3rd: Remove all shortcuts to the files in c:\windows\all users\startup menu\programs\start
>up
Almost done!
Look in \windows for recent file additions. You can do a "dir *.exe /o:d" from a
command prompt or you can find them in explorer as well. You'll see a bunch of various
"(random garbage).exe" files all about 570K in size. Those need to go too.
I dumped system restore just to be safe. Ran Ad-aware and Norton Anti-Virus.
Seem to be running clean.
Thanks for the tip on getting rid of the .lnk files, was driving me nuts.
>AND..... About the error messages with Morze.lnk (which is another issue I have)
>and tons of other "missing shortcuts" messages that appear wjhen starting my computer,
>I found these directions below on another site while searching on Google, should
>I follow them? (AGAIN, to be sure. I don't want to simply do whatever I find with
>Google, I might screw up my computer even more):
>**********
>Name: ToX666
>Date: March 29, 2004 at 14:30:55 Pacific
>Subject: Help with error messages
>
>Reply:
>Ok guys here it is....
>1st: Spybot Full Updates/Full Scan and Fix!
>
>2nd: Remove all shortcuts to the files in c:\windows\start menu\programs\start up
>
>3rd: Remove all shortcuts to the files in c:\windows\all users\startup menu\programs\start
>up
>
>4th: Enter Msconfig>startup and remove all links to the files there.
>
>5th: Reboot
>
>6th: Run a full updated virus scan (Norton AV 2004) on your drives just to be safe.
>
>7th: Thx ToX666 for saving the day yet again ;)
>
>If anyone had to do anything else besides what i posted here please reply.
>
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