re: odbc.hta
Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 10:24 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Evan
(18 messages posted)
I have the same problem in Windows XP. I don't know anything about programming though
and I don't understand how you said to get rid of them. What does attrib mean?
>attrib odbc.hta showed hidden and system so:
>attrib -s -h odbc.hta took care of that allowing erase >to work.
Also, the program that's running is called odbc.hta but when I looked in the Windows
folder, there was a file called ODBC and another called ODBCINST. Both were labeled
as "Configuration Settings." Neither had .hta after them. Should I delete these files?
My computer tries to log on to the internet every once in a while for no reason so
I'm afraid it's some sort of spyware. I ran Adaware and it found a ton of stuff but
this is still there. Please help this computer illiterate fix this problem! Thank
you,
Evan
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 8:28 am, Jordan Lund wrote:
>I'm seeing the same thing in Windows 98. My solution was to attack it through the
>command line.
>
>C:\windows showed two files that shouldn't be there, odbc.hta (which was running
>on startup) and homepage.htm (the default homepage after odbc.hta runs). I was able
>to edit both with the command line and it looks like they both contain a bunch of
>encrypted Javascript. It also looks like both contain the same code so unless you
>remove both you will continue to be "re-infected."
>
>The erase command didn't work initially because they're flagged as system, hidden
>or read-only.
>
>attrib odbc.hta showed hidden and system so:
>attrib -s -h odbc.hta took care of that allowing erase to work.
>
>attrib homepage.htm showed it was hidden so:
>attrib -h homepage.htm removes the hidden flag.
>
>Just for fun I checked msconfig to see if I could find where odbc.hta was running
>from, no dice. Regedit also ran clean for that string and there wasn't anything
weird
>in the startup folder so I have no idea where that file is running from.
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- re: odbc.hta (Jordan Lund: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 8:28 am)
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