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Cant run REGEDIT Spyware
Name: Lorenzo1209 Date: November 16, 2003 at 08:12:14 Pacific OS: Win 98 CPU/Ram: Pen II
Comment:
My home page box was grayed out and when I open any Internet window it has thw title of the web site that i cant change and I can run Cant run REGEDIT it said that its disalbe. I fix the home page box but I still cant get the tilte out or run REGEDIT.
Name: Marty525 Date: November 16, 2003 at 08:24:45 Pacific
Reply:
You need to download adaware from lavasoft.com and delete everything it finds. Then download spybot search and destroy from downloads.com and do the same thing.
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Response Number 2
Name: Tufenuf Date: November 16, 2003 at 09:26:10 Pacific
Reply:
If after running Ad-aware & Spybot you still can't run regedit go to the link below and download and install "Fixswen.inf".
Save the fixswen.inf file to your local hard disk, right-click on the file and choose install.
A Setup INF file to undo registry changes made by W32/Swen@MM and other threats that prevent REGEDIT, BAT, COM, EXE, PIF, REG and SCR files from running.
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