re: belgiandip.com
Monday, March 15, 2004 at 1:04 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tim
(3 messages posted)
Hmmm... You certainly have a perplexing infestation then. It doesn't make any sense
that you don't have a file on your machine like we would expect. I'm a bit at a
loss, but I'll try a couple more suggestions. First, I did see someone say that
the latest version, dated yesterday, of Ad-aware will get this. If so, you can get
it for free at www.lavasoftusa.com. Also, you might want to download and run Hijack
This. It won't fix this problem itself, but it might help clean up junk that came
along at the same time. I found that when I got this thing, my computer had been
directed to a site called achtungachtung (not typing it as a url, for obvious reasons)
that downloads a trojan onto your computer. Also, I got directed to something like
default-network-homepage or similar that brought up lots of junk too. I have no
idea how my computer got sent to those places in the first place but I suspect it
had something to do with the Windows messenger service before I could disable it.
Anyway, my point is you need to check to see it there is more to clean up than just
the belgiandip problem. This takes virus scanning and registry clean up to fix everything.
OK, back to your problem at hand.
This may be a bit drudgerous and it is a bit risky (not overly so), but what I personally
would do is try to find the program in the task manager that is causing this...
Bring up the task manager and go to the Processes tab. Go down the list of every
process that is running (you can obviously ignore things like SYSTEM, SYSTEM IDLE
PROCESS, and svchost.exe and anything else that you are absolutely 100% sure is
part of Windows and supposed to be there, but if in doubt, include it in what I'm
about to suggest). For each listed process, open a search window and search for
the .exe file on your machine. For example, if you wanted to check it anyway, you'd
search for svchost.exe (obviously it will take a little while for your machine to
search for each file, that's the drudgery part). Once you find each file, right
click (DON'T double-click) and select Properties. Check out the description field
contents and then click the version tab and make sure that the company listed is
Microsoft, or someone you know you should be running software from like Symantec,
Real Networks, etc. depending on what all you have on your machine. I bet you'll
eventually find something that looks suspicious and I even expect you'll find "totempole"
in the company field. Anyway, once you find something suspicious, you can try killing
the process and see if your problem goes away. Of course, this is the risky part,
if you have chosen badly, you could crash your machine, but this is probably not
a high risk, even if you do. Of course, make sure you write that process name down
before you kill it so you can then search for it again and delete it and clean your
registry as we discussed before. Maybe someone else will have a simpler solution,
but that's the best I can up with at this point. Good Luck!
- Written in response to:
- re: belgiandip.com (Vinny: Monday, March 15, 2004 at 12:38 pm)
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