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Web-links show up after reboot????
Name: Tom Date: December 8, 2003 at 22:40:34 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon2000+ 768MBDDR
Comment:
ANy time I boot or reboot.....there are 11 porn shortcuts that appear on my C: drive.
Name: John Date: December 8, 2003 at 22:42:58 Pacific
Reply:
Shouldn't mess with porn, it will flood your computer with all sorts of stuff. Sorry, don't know how to get rid of it.
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Response Number 2
Name: Pandemonium1x Date: December 9, 2003 at 00:11:48 Pacific
Reply:
If you delete the shortcuts and they re-appear after reboot there's a good chance you have a mild virus put on your PC by the porn companies =) do a viri scan and also check your startup folder and your windows ini file
Start > Run > win.ini (type that in)
Check and make sure there's nothing after Load= or Run=
if there is delete the path and click File > Save
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Response Number 3
Name: SullyD Date: December 9, 2003 at 01:03:17 Pacific
Reply:
Tom,
If the virus scan doesn't come up with anything... do a search on google for "spybot" and "adaware". download, install, and run them. These are freeware programs and should be run at least once a week (or more). Read up on spyware when your at these sites.
I'm curious...is your home page being hi-jacked?
SullyD
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Response Number 4
Name: Tom Date: December 9, 2003 at 20:34:20 Pacific
Reply:
I think I found the solution. CWS (Coolwebsearch)shredder did the trick. The problem lies in ByteVerify exploit in Microsoft Java VM. Check this link.. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
ad-aware and spy-bot did not find CWS, but CWSshredder did. THanks for all your help.
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