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Deleting Registry Key
Name: Mario (by mpartida) Date: July 28, 2005 at 12:46:07 Pacific OS: WInXP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: 1.5 Ghz, 512 MB
Comment:
Good afternoon all, I am working on a station taht was infected by spyware. It looks like I have gotten rid of all of it except for one registry key that keeps comming back.
I can go into the registry, manually delete it, it's gone, get out of regedit, then come back in and it is there again.
I have even tried in safe mode and it is the same thing. This key doesn't even have anything in it, but I still want to get rid of it. Where does it restore itself from? How do I stop it from doing so?
Name: Mario (by mpartida) Date: July 28, 2005 at 13:23:03 Pacific
Reply:
I checked, and it is just a standard key. It let's me delete it, it is gone and does not come back until I get out of regedit and then back in.
Thanks anyway,
-Mario-
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Response Number 5
Name: blackbill Date: July 28, 2005 at 13:41:36 Pacific
Reply:
If it keeps coming back then you didn't get it all... there is another key or sub program that gives directive to re-write the one you are trying to delete
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Name: Mario (by mpartida)
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