Author Topic: Arrrghhh (Read 387 times)

ygsmilo · « **on:** October 13, 2003, 10:47:31 PM »

Somewhere I picked up this little beast,,

Regedit.EXE-1B606482.pf which loads this gocybersearch engine in IE

Ok, I go into the reredit deleate the file, go to the prefetch in windows and delete it, it goes to the recycle bin-- when you dump the bin it reloads itself,,, how do I get rid of it.

Thanks

AKIron · « **Reply #1 on:** October 14, 2003, 04:01:11 PM »

Have you tried ad-aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ and/or spybot? You may have other problems these programs can help with.

Westy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 14, 2003, 04:18:31 PM »

Try the program called Hijackthis!

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

It may help.

Westy

Swager · « **Reply #3 on:** October 14, 2003, 08:06:48 PM »

I went to regedit and changed the home and search website to Yahoo which is what I want for my home page.

REGEDIT
Local Machine
Software
Microsoft
Internet Explorer - Modify "Search"
Main - Modify "Start" "Search" and "Default Page URL"
Search -

When you go into these files you can see that damn stupid URL that goes to Go Cyber Search.

The thing is a PITA. IT took me a few times to get rid of it!!

Milo, do not try this if you feel uneasy about it. Also get the input from more people to make sure it is an OK thing to do. I did it and I am still running fine.

Good Luck

ygsmilo · « **Reply #4 on:** October 15, 2003, 08:33:28 AM »

I d/l Spybot last nite and it seemed to to the trick,

thanks for the replys.

Maverick · « **Reply #5 on:** October 15, 2003, 01:07:45 PM »

FWIW, I have a similar problem. Adaware does NOT find the lil bastige. I am planing to reformat and load win XP this week so won't bother with searching the crap out. This was the final straw for my win 98 SE.

In my case it brings up a "luckysearch" web search page as my homepage about every oter day. I couldn't "find" the file that does it and deleting cookies, pages etc. was no help either. I hope the hemorhoids that make this crap get slammed real hard.

I even refuse cookies at almost all sites other than AH and one other and this stuff ended up on my system.

ygsmilo · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2003, 04:29:40 PM »

Mav,

d/l spybot, it will do the trick.

Maverick · « **Reply #7 on:** October 17, 2003, 11:21:46 AM »

ygsmilo,

No luck. I d-loaded spybot the other day and ran it. When it found a redirect file I was convinced it killed the problem. Today it showed up again just like before. Another run of spybot didn't find a thing.

Thanks anyhow bud.