re: belgiandip.com
Friday, April 9, 2004 at 11:32 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kristiana
(1 messages posted)
This procedure worked for me. The file I found with the company "totempole" was
TPLUGINQ.EXE.
On Monday, March 15, 2004 at 11:17 am, Tim wrote:
>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!
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- re: belgiandip.com (Tim: Monday, March 15, 2004 at 11:17 am)
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