re: I need spyware and virus removal tips Saturday, March 12, 2005 at 6:07 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Falcon (13489 messages posted) Active Setup stubs -- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components. Some subkeys under that key have a value titled "StubPath", which is sometimes run--I'm not sure when, though I guess whenever a new account is created. ICQ scripts -- Browser Helper Objects -- COM objects loaded into Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer. Registered under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects. (As CLSIDs...) LSP handlers -- Basically a network filter. I don't know much about how they work internally, as I haven't experimented, but you can view/remove them with LSPFix. Services -- Start->Run->services.msc. The Services MMC snap-in only shows some of them. The full dirt can be found under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services. Note that device drivers, which are registered under the same key, may be associated with a device under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum. If you then remove that driver without removing the "UpperFilters" or "LowerFilters" value that references it, you may make that device unable to start. This is very bad if the device in question is you hard drive... autochk BootExecute key -- Specifies a program to run at boot to check the partitions, if needed. A value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager. Default is autocheck autochk * The Wereotter Written in response to: re: I need spyware and virus removal tips (Jacques: Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 12:41 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum