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XpUser August 9, 2005 at 08:09:55 Pacific

What is that symbol before your name ?? Looks like an O with an i inside. That is symbol for the company I retired from, Owens-Illinois Inc. I wasn't aware that this symbol is Owens-Illinois Inc. corporate logo. Thanks for the info. Sci-Guy created it for me around the time KTTD was pressurizing me to learn HTML. The i in the O represents InfOrmation. Should I change it? i_XpUser

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Chuck 2 August 9, 2005 at 08:19:36 Pacific

XpUser-- I was just wondering. O-I is the worlds largest glass container manufacturer. If went in a market, pick up any glass or beverage container. Then look around at the heel (bottom edge)of the bottle. You may find an O with an i inside. www.o-i.com

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XpUser August 9, 2005 at 08:32:48 Pacific

Thanks Chuck. I now recall seeing that familiar symbol impressed on glass products. Am I now in trouble with I-O over logo infringments, given the facts that you're a retired perwson and you obviously know someone in the company's legal department? i_XpUser

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XpUser August 9, 2005 at 08:34:37 Pacific

Sorry chr1stine for my chattering with Chuck. It's just that we've known each others through this Forum. Hope you don't mind it :-) i_XpUser

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Chuck 2 August 9, 2005 at 08:42:54 Pacific

XP User--- I was just a "pee-on", maintainance mechanic, at one of the plants. I don't care.

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Chuck 2 August 9, 2005 at 08:47:48 Pacific

chrlstine-- You could look here I YAHOO to see 320,000 web pages for answers.

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chr1stine August 9, 2005 at 10:54:02 Pacific

Hi Chuck I have ploughed through suggestions, and found i have already tried them. I have non of the files they suggest removing, yet all my spyware/adware keeps picking up this registry entry, istbar, that cannot be deleted, obviously something is pointing to it, and my firewall is still on caution, although i do not think the istbar is the cause for that.

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Stryker August 9, 2005 at 14:09:08 Pacific

I use a host of different spyware scanners but i've found that Ewido fixes this particular infection very well. Download it and give it a try. Also, use the online virus scanner for trendmicro. http://housecall.trendmicro.com After everything's clean...we can move on with the other problem. I'm currently using trendmico 2005 but without the firewall. I use Sygate Personal Firewall PRO. All the reviews i've read state that Trendmico catches more viruses then any other (norton, mcafee etc..) but the firewall feature lacks in a lot of ways. I also use the Wifi intrusion detection feature, that works pretty good. just my 2 cents.

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chr1stine August 9, 2005 at 14:59:02 Pacific

Thanks for your help Scott. I have already used Housecall, and I must admit it is something I use quite often as it does seem to find threats that pc-cillin 2004 misses. I am now going to try Ewido, will post back tomorrow with results.

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chr1stine August 9, 2005 at 16:15:31 Pacific

Hi Scott I have done an online scan with ewido which could not clean items found. So I then downloaded trial software and again it could not clean. Report listed below: HKLM\SOFTWARE\ISTbar -> Spyware.ISTBar : Error during cleaning HKLM\SOFTWARE\ISTbar\Historyfiles -> Spyware.ISTBar : Error during cleaning HKLM\SOFTWARE\ISTbar\Historystring -> Spyware.ISTBar : Error during cleaning

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Stryker August 9, 2005 at 16:24:13 Pacific

wow! this is the first time i've ever heard of it not cleaning that! i'm shocked. Are you logged on as administrator or have admin rights on your account? the report didnt give any more details? anyone else have any suggestions? i'll keep thinking and doing research and let you know if I can come up with anything.

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chr1stine August 10, 2005 at 01:21:21 Pacific

thanks Scott I know its mad isnt it, this is why I have spent so many hours on. This morning, for the first time ever, spybot does a scan on startup and calls it Isearch.Sidefind, but when looking at the registry entry it is that ISTbar. My feeling is it is a little dll file somewhere in the system that the registry is pointing at, but as you know there are thousands. Spybot reported it in the memory and would clean at next startup but it didn't. I have searched for every file associated with ISTbar on my system, not one, and this morning searched for files associated with isearch, one found patch.exe, which i know to be a virus, but it is also a file associated with trendmicro. I have files in quarrantine in lower case called patch.exe, but the one found is in c:\windows in upper case, and its well known so i know virus checker would have picked it up.

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Chuck 2 August 10, 2005 at 07:51:27 Pacific

I have checked the "Pest Info" on my Spyware X-terminator program. In the list it shows 7 ISTBar related entries. So I presume the program will remove it. Program costs a few bucks. Paying for something will probably work better than free programs. Available in stores and online. ***Also, be sure to update any software online after installation, and every 1-2 weeks.

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JustinCS August 10, 2005 at 08:07:56 Pacific

"I presume the program will remove it. Program costs a few bucks. Paying for something will probably work better than free programs. Available in stores and online." HAH, its funny that nobody references that as a recommended download except very rarely! Also the free end products usually are commercial brands that cut a lot of the extras so freeloaners like us aren't going pirating. It's also funny that Download.com and even microsoft lists adaware and spybot as recommend spyware removal tools besides their own... Hah! Anyway, try Spybot and adaware in safe mode, or simply just goto start, run, msconfig, and goto diagnostics, and try a scan with the programs from diag/safe. Also try A2 Squared (less known but I like it), Webroot (15 day trial http://www.download.com/Webroot-Spy-Sweeper/3000-8022_4-10192729.html?tag=txt and Spyware Doctor http://www.download.com/Spyware-Doctor/3000-8022_4-10293212.html?tag=txt

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Stryker August 10, 2005 at 12:43:43 Pacific

also a very important tool to use is Hijack This.

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JoseBillBR September 16, 2005 at 01:59:23 Pacific

If you still have this problem, it's because you need to change the permissions on the key before trying to delete it. I had the same problem and it took me several days to figure this out (on Windows 2000 in my case, so I had to use regedt32 instead of regedit). Anyhow, hope this helps someone out there.