re: belgiandip.com
Monday, April 12, 2004 at 11:40 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mathew
(1 messages posted)
I found another variant on my machine (13 April 2004) called apim.exe. Simply killed
the task in Task Manager, deleted the file from the Windows System directory and
deleted the registry entry which causes it to load at start up.
Hope this helps others out there who come across this problem.
On Monday, March 1, 2004 at 12:23 am, Cyber Spyder wrote:
>I believe i have found an answer to your POPup problem.
>
>I too was getting the belgiandip popups after going to certain web pages, gotradio.com
>was one of them where i was bombarded with popups, browser hijackers, and my cd-rom
>drives all popped open. After doing some research i traced all problems back to
passthison.com
> where they openly admit doing these types of things to convince people to buy spyware
>removal tools from their advertisers. Long story short, I spoke to Val Starr,
president
>of gotradio.com and she had the advertisers removed along with their popup attack
>banners. Well they somehow did it again and now i started getting the belgiandip.com
>crap. Here is what i noticed:
>
>A program called pup.exe in the c:\prgram files dir was creating a file called
over.exe
>which in turn was causing popups. After deleting the files i thought i had the problem
>solved, WRONG.... Downloaded both spysweeper and adaware and neither one caught
this
>nasty little bastard. Opened task manager and saw no unusual tasks running. Decided
>to reboot, did, upon opening task manager again i noticed this little S.O.B. running
>dbcji32o.exe which if right clicked on and properties checked was codenamed totempole
>by some idiots called werule. The original filename is pup.exe... created by the
>dbcji32o.exe file So i hope this helps you and everyone else out because none of
>the spyware tools i tried could find this one.
>
>
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