Re: System Tray

I can't remember the software name because I uninstalled already, but it was
basically an advert to purchase anti-spyware software. When I click the icon
in the system tray it takes me to the following website:
http://www.virusbursters.com/?aff=334

I have tried to contact those at the website but no joy.
Regards

"Rock" wrote:

"Farhan Shaikh" wrote

I recently downloaded some software that installed an icon into my system
tray, I have uninstalled the software but the icon in the system has not
been
removed. It keeps popping up 'speech bubble' that takes me to a website
when
clicked.

Any ideas on how to remove this icon.??
Thanks

What was the software? Possibly it installed some sort of malware.

THE PARASITE FIGHT
Finding, Removing & Protecting Yourself From Scumware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm

Richard Harper’s Guide to Cleaning Pests
http://rgharper.mvps.org/cleanit.htm

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

To eliminate a non malware program from running at startup the first step
should be to check in the options for the program you don't want to start
and see if there is a setting to tell it not to run at startup. The next
step is to remove any entries you don't want from the two startup folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig:
Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok

Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys in
the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT
before making any changes to the registry.

ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm


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