re: belgiandip.com
Monday, March 15, 2004 at 11:17 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tim
(3 messages posted)
Vinny -
Relax! This actually isn't very hard. I got this stupid thing on my computer during
the 10 minutes between completing my upgrade to XP and getting all the security patches
and firewall re-installed. Guess that will teach me to allow my computer online
for even a minute without security in place!
Anyway, the post from anonymous on the 9th does give everything (apparently from
what I can tell) you need to defeat this thing. Let me make a couple of suggestions
if you're still having trouble...
I assume you have searched your computer and deleted every occurrance of pup.exe
and over.exe. Of course, after this you still get the problem because the actual
program causing it is something that was created by these with a random name. This
might help track it down.
- Double click on My Computer and then your hard drive (C:, I'll assume) and navigate
to the c:\Windows\system32 directory.
- Once there, go to the View pull down and change the view type to "Details".
- Next, go to View again and select "Choose Details..."
- Now, scroll through the list and check the "Company" option and click OK.
- Now sort the display by size by clicking on the Size column header.
- Scroll through the list of files until you find files with a size of 64 KB.
- Beside one (or more) of these, you will find "totempole" listed in the Company
column.
- BINGO! Now write the file name down.
- Bring up task manager and kill the process running with the name you just found.
- Delete the file you found.
- Bring up regedit and search the registry and delete all keys with pup.exe, over.exe,
and the file(s) you found with "totempole" listed as the company.
- You should be free of the thing now! (of course, up above, you could also sort
by company instead of size, but I think the size sort works better since most files
have the company entry blank, but either will work).
Good Luck!
- Written in response to:
- re: belgiandip.com (Vinny: Monday, March 15, 2004 at 8:15 am)
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