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re: I need spyware and virus removal tips
Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 1:01 pm
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Posted by Falcon (13489 messages posted)


I'll get to the rest later. Busy with other stuff right now...
  • Trusted Zone -- Control Panel->Internet Options->Security tab->Trusted->View sites. The information you see there, as well as under the other three zones, is stored in the registry under {HKLM|HKCU}\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap. Sites in this zone are granted more access to your computer.
  • AppInit_DLLs -- Specifies a list of .dll files to load into every process. It is under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows.
  • Winlogon\Notify -- Each subkey of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify specifies a DLL to load into the WinLogon.exe process (a critical system process). When certain events occur, such as logon and logoff, a function in the DLL may be called.
  • ShellDelayLoad objects -- COM objects loaded by explorer.exe some time after boot. Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad. The value in brackets is a CLSID, which you can look up under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
  • UserInit -- Manages Windows startup. The value controlling this is under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. It specifies a comma-separated list of programs to run. By default, the value should be
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,
    
  • Active Setup stubs --
  • ICQ scripts --
  • Browser Helper Objects --
  • LSP handlers --
  • Services --
  • autochk BootExecute key --

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Written in response to:
re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 12:41 pm)

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*re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 4:04 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Mon, Mar 7, 2005, 9:42 am)
-Standard Utilites (joe: Mon, Mar 7, 2005, 10:02 am)
-one more thing.... (joe: Mon, Mar 7, 2005, 10:36 am)
*re: one more thing.... (William: Sun, Jun 5, 2005, 7:16 am)
-re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Falcon: Mon, Mar 7, 2005, 11:45 am)
-re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:41 pm)
-re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Falcon: Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 1:01 pm)
*re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 4:04 pm)
*re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Falcon: Sat, Mar 12, 2005, 6:07 am)
*re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 11:47 am)
*re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (666: Sat, Mar 12, 2005, 4:22 pm)
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