RE: Unwanted Ads running on my computer

From: drew (drew_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:57:02 -0700

As an ammendment to my previous reply make sure to restart the computer after
editing the registry and before trying to delete the offending programs.

"drew" wrote:

> To delete certain files you will need to ensure that they will not run on
> startup, and there are a couple ways to do this. One, click Start, Run, and
> then type msconfig. Click on the startup tab and either uncheck the programs
> that you do not want to run automatically or click on disable all. Then,
> restart your computer, a dialog box related to msconfig will come up, just
> click ok or yes (I can't remember exactly what it says). Then proceed to
> delete away.
>
> Another way to prevent items from running on start-up is throught the
> registry editor. Click start, run, and type regedit. Navigate to
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version, Run (also
> Run Once) and delete any entries there (or just delete the entries for the
> files that you are trying to delete). Also navigate to the same folders
> under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE directory and delete the undesireable entries,
> look under any other folders that start with the word Run, there can be quite
> a few.
>
> Hope this helps. Always be careful not to mess around too much in the
> registry editor. You can export the entire registry as a backup by clicking
> File and then Export and clicking on the All radio button.
>
>
>
>
> "Jo Ann" wrote:
>
> > Just wanted to let you know that I went on a website
> > yesterday afternoon that must have been infected with all
> > kinds of files that load programs onto your machine.
> > I've never run into this before. I had about 8 new icons
> > loaded on my desktop and new program files added to that
> > directory. I was getting all kinds of pop-ups totally
> > outside of IE and MSN.
> >
> > Luckily friends stopped by to go out with us to dinner
> > and he had the same problem this week, only not so
> > badly!! He had a computer friend help him out and used
> > Ad-Aware.com free software to find the (360!!) ads and
> > delete them. I had to reboot and run again about 4 times
> > to get the ads under 10. I'm running it once a day now
> > and shutting off my computer at night - Yeah, I had
> > Gozilla, zula, along with E-Bay, screen savers and other
> > junk that I hadn't loaded myself. I ran spy-bot too to
> > catch the cookies. I also have McAfee virus protection
> > running.
> >
> > Odd thing is that when I do Cntl-Alt-Del there are still
> > all kinds of thing running on my computer and I don't
> > know how to get them out. And I don't know what is
> > needed and what isn't. I may have deleted some stuff
> > that I shouldn't have too - will find out as we go with
> > this!
> >
> > Whew! It was a mess, but my computer is ok now! I think.
> >
> > Ok - question is why can't I delete some files? I went
> > into Program Files and tried to delete some files that
> > were loaded that day that I didn't load and I got an
> > access denied message. Seems that the program is in use,
> > but I don't know where or how to find it!! I did delete
> > the associated .dll files so hopefully it can't do
> > anything. But does anyone have any idea of what to do
> > with this?
> >