re: I need spyware and virus removal tips
Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 4:04 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jacques
(38 messages posted)
This is highly appreciated. I'm going to look into this over the next few days-
it should help me significantly. Thanks so much! :-D
~Jacques
On Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 1:01 pm, Otter wrote:
>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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