re: belgiandip.com
Monday, March 8, 2004 at 9:24 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike
(2 messages posted)
My thanks to Erica, I have downloaded Sucurity Task Manager. It was easy to use and
soon found the file MDE actually ecupd.exe. So quarantined it and so far the problem
has stopped.
Thanks again Erica!
On Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 2:46 pm, Erika wrote:
>
>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 (Erika: Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 2:46 pm)
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