Re: Adware toolbar infecting ALL WinXP windows, not just IE

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Bullman wrote:
Hi
I have just seen a very sick home PC that was left vulnerable to all
sorts of malware/virus/trojan infections from the internet and was
amazed to see adware toolbars even infecting regular WinXP windows
like the Control Panel window. I am of course familair with malware
toolabrs infecting internet browsers but never non-browser system
windows.

Has anyone heard of this before or know the name of any virus/trojan/
malware etc that can infect non-browser system windows like this? Its
been hard searching for one that can on Google.

Thanks

Bull

First you have to say what you've already done to try to fix this problem; I
don't like "done that" responses. And yes, that's typical of an infected
machine.


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