Re: System restore error

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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 06:05:38 -0400

The name of the dll isn't critical, and appears to be random. What is important is:

"index.html#96676"

You appear to have a new variant of CWS Shredder (Cool Web Search) that there is no automated fix for at this point.

http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/index.php?showtopic=15974

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"PTBC" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:21c4501c45b5f$701b3af0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> This isn't just a system restore error, but I figure if I 
> can get that working I can reverse any other damage. 
> Here's the whole problem.
> 
> First, while I was surfing the internet, my virus program 
> notified me that there was some malicious script 
> attempting to run on my computer, but it said that it was 
> able to stop it. 
> 
> However, right after that happened my computer started to 
> screw up. The internet will no longer allow me to set my 
> own home page, it just keeps changing 
> to "res://zvoov.dll/index.html#96676" automatically. 
> 
> Also I keep getting pop-ups wherever I go saying that I 
> have spyware, but my adaware is not registering any 
> spyware. 
> 
> I figured that somehow something got into my system files 
> somehow, whether it be a virus or whatever, so I tried to 
> use my system restore to remove anything that may have 
> downloaded onto my computer lately, but my system restore 
> now seems to have stopped working. 
> 
> Also I viewed the system event viewer and since these 
> problems started it has been recording that a file 
> replacement has been attempted on a protected system file 
> and that the file was restored to the original version to 
> maintain system stability. The event viewer has recorded 
> this repeatedly since the problems started. 
> 
> I don't know if anyone can help me with this but if you 
> could I'd really appreciate it.

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