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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.

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another useful tip

[(Anonymous)]

otcrdnoa.exe is a little program in the application data folder that, sure enough, is the music search online. thought it might help some people because mine wasn't called emylthro... :P

Re: another useful tip

[(Anonymous)]

Hey-

This little guy frustrated me for a couple days, but this is what I got on it. I think it randomly assigns itself a label, because for me it was listed as jhieklnq.exe. I found it nested under C:\Documents And Settings\{Your User Name Here}\Application Data. That is for anyone using Windows XP. It seems to have hidden itself from a standard windows search, because I even copied and pasted that title directly, and windows failed to find it. I found it by going through msconfig in the startup tab. The only thing similar to the other ones posted here is that it had "-Quiet" at the end of the title, which I used to confirm its presence. And no, I wasn't looking for any kind of porn. It came from an mp3 album website in which I carelessly let it in thinking it was an unremarkable plug-in... I should have known better. I hope this info helped.