re: belgiandip.com
Monday, March 15, 2004 at 1:44 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Vinny
(3 messages posted)
I think I FINALLY fixed it. Using security task manager I found a program running
called roctexep.exe that looked funny to me. I quarantined it and have opened and
closed I.E. many many times with no pop-ups. Then I re-booted a few times and did
the same just to see if would re-materialize from another program I may have missed,
so far, so good (knock on wood) thanks again for all of your help.
On Monday, March 15, 2004 at 1:04 pm, Tim wrote:
>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!
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- re: belgiandip.com (Tim: Monday, March 15, 2004 at 1:04 pm)
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