re: belgiandip.com
Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 2:46 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Erika
(3 messages posted)
Hi everyone-
I found this forum while trying to get this freekin' "belgiandip" popup thing off
of my computer. Thank God for this forum!!!
My DH accidentally clicked on a popup last Thurs and its been with us ever since.
I did manage to get rid of it though - I downloaded the aforementioned Security Task
Manager, which was able to find the original program (the normal Win 98 Task Manager
wouldn't show this thing).
Security Task Manager found an application called OYJ.exe in my system folder. The
company name associated w/ it was Totempole/werule. The weird thing was that the
modification date on this program was something like 2/13/04, & not the date that
all of this happened (3/4/04). I had been manually going through everything trying
to find a program that had totempole associated w/ it, but of course I was using
the modification date to help me sort all that out. No wonder I kept blowing past
it.
So, I hope this can help someone with this crap! BTW - Security Task Manager (a
limited free trial download) still lists OYJ.exe after a reboot, but it is greyed
out & is tagged as being "not active". There is no sign of this program in any file,
so I don't understand why its still being listed, & of course I'm concerned that
something is still lurking. But for now the popups & sluggish performance are gone.
n Saturday, March 6, 2004 at 11:28 pm, Cyber Spyder wrote:
>
>
>Most likely you have a different file name that's creating the PUP.EXE files. With
>me, the dbcji32o.exe file would run at bootup, then once i ran internet explorer
>it would create pup.exe and then dbcji32o.exe would hide itself so that you would
>only see the pup.exe running. You have to boot your pc and immediately run task
>manager before opening any files and look for a running task that you don't recognize.
>If you're unsure of deleting a strange file, go to that file wherever it may be
on
>your hard drive (most likely in the windows\system32\ folder) then right click
on
>that file and check properties. Look at the info on each line in its profile. If
>you see the names totempole, pup.exe, over.exe, or werule in there, that's the file
>to delete. The pup.exe, over.exe, and open.exe files are all red herrings created
>by the elusive file that hides itself after bootup.
>
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- re: belgiandip.com (Cyber Spyder: Saturday, March 6, 2004 at 11:28 pm)
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