update on files to delete
Monday, May 24, 2004 at 11:57 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mero
(1 messages posted)
I first got belgiumdip popup every 5 browsers opened. And then the number multiplied
to 4, 5 and even more popups! When I would go to close the popup another would popup.
Initially the after once or twice the popups would stop but it came to a point where
5 popups would open all at once and when I'd quickly close them, they would continually
open again and again and again and again...
I found this site and tried to get rid of this problem and it seems that this "virus"
is changing. Here's what I found.
As many people have written above, deleting exe files from c drive and from windows\system32
folder will stop the popups. The problem is that the name of exe files were different
from any of the names that have been listed in this thread so far. I only was able
to find pup.exe but that was it and I still had belgiumdip popus!
I tried to find files that had company name "totempole" and another name that was
listed in a post above and of course I couldn't find any.
I was finally able to find the right files by going to the windows\system32 folder
and sorting the files by size. There were a bunch and I mean like 7 or so files
with a distinct icon that were EXACTLY 64kb in size! THey were also listed under
properties as being from a company named "Thunderdome" and NOT "totepole"! I knew
these were the files so I tried to delete them but couldn't because they were in
use.
So I opened up taskmanager but couldn't find corresponding running program with these
popup exe files in the windows\system32 folder.
So I went down the list of programs running and closed the non-system programs that
seemed ok to close. And then I tried to delete the 64kb exe files in windows\system32
folder and that solved the problem.
I wasn't able to check for other 64kb virus exe files in other parts of my c drive.
I tried to do a search but stupid search won't let me specify file size, only "atmost"
or "atleast" a certain size.
I guess I could go through the names of files I found and deleted in my windows\system32
folder and look for them on my c drive using search but my browser is working fine
now and I don't wanna bother.
CONCLUSION: Forget looking for specific file names or looking for company name because
they seem to change. Open up your windows\system32 folder and sort files by size
and look for 64kb sized files and delete them!
- Written in response to:
- re: belgiandip.com (Sleepy: Monday, March 29, 2004 at 6:42 pm)
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