[steplock]

THat is one VERY nasty virus/scumware/spyware you have on your computer.

It took me 3 hours to remove it from a friend's computer (thanx to Win-Me).

#1 TURN OFF System Restore!
#2 Download, Install & Run AdAware & Spybot at least twice each
#3 On-Line go to http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp (set this scan for Auto Clean - you'll see where)

#4 rerun adaware & spybot until you see ZERO problems

#5 Hopefully your computer still functions after all this

#6 http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp and get the CRITICAL updates

Do all this, there are a couple more programs that may be necessary - I'll check back here and see if you need them.

[steplock]

I said to turn off the System Restore because that is where this POS is residing - no matter where you find and delete it, if restore is operating, it will simply restore itself.

It is nasty.

[freedomlover]

bump 4 tonite

[Future Useless Eater]

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[skinny old man]

I had four Icons suddenly appear on my desktop,and and the Internt Exployer Icon wouldn't work.Through Tech Assistance with Road Runner we determined the Browser wasn't working.I got on line through My Computer.I was able to uninstall two of the Icons.At time the machine takes a long time to load a page.Getting on to Free Republic doesn't seem to be a problem.

Skinny Old Man

[OldCorps]

thanks steplock for your advice. everything running fine. we'll see if the stuff pops up again.

funny thing is, i've run windows update many times in the past. It would always tell me that i need to install 2 critical updates, (something to IE, i think). every time i downloaded them, i'd go back and see if they took. they didn't.

however, this time i turned off system restore as you suggested, and the update went through. Many thanks, amigo.

regards,

[OldCorps]

hi steplock

When i tried to download housecall I got the following message:

TrendActiveUpdate did not update successfully. It may result from a busy server or bad network traffic.
Error Code 16.
Error String: Either creating or deleting a directory under the destination directory was not successful, or there was a file access error.

Do you want to retry?

So i tried 3 more times and got the same error message.

I did the scan on c: drive anyway. nothing found.

what do you think?
regards,