aagh

[den]

I let a kid on my system to "look for game cheats." As soon as I left the room he surfed for porn and something (not Gater or Kaza) installed on my system. There were a bunch of icons for porn, adult material, free music etc on my desktop.

But

Something has installed into my registry that kicks off a little thinky in my systray. It calls itself "Music Search Online" but clicking on it takes me to a hard-core porn site. I CAN'T GET RID OF IT!

Every time I boot windows something in the regsitry kicks off and creates a *random_name*.TPM file in the windws/temp dir, and runs THAT. I can't find the reg key! dammit! I really don't want to delete system.dat and user.dat and reload windows again. What a pain in the arse.

Any gurus out there?

actually, I might del the registry. It's badly bloated.

Comments

Before you do anything rash

[berin.livejournal.com]

Try this: http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml

This should, if you can get it to install, scan your registry and HD and remove all the offending and offensive programs. I use it at work (well, *used* it at work) periodically to clean up after people who install stuff without asking.

Re: Before you do anything rash

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Got it. use it. It's a very nifty proggy. It picked up 16 new files and reg keys and killed all but one of the adwares. It's this last one running in the systray I can't remove