Hijacked

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:52:18 -0700

Also, stay away from porn sites. :)

>-----Original Message-----
>Ok I recently aquired a hijacker and some other mal
ware.
>When I use Adaware CWShredder and Spybot they can't seem
>to get rid of it. Maybe I'm missing something. Adaware
>seems to find most of it but when it tries to clear it
off
>there is always one dll file that won't leave. I am
denied
>access to this file no matter what I try it seems. This
>file is named something new everytime I run adaware. It
>seems to come from a file called "VX2 Better Internet" .
I
>have started my pc up in safe mode as well and tried
>getting rid of the files there but it didn't help. Once
>this thing executes, things start installing on my
system
>and I mean alot of things. I rid myself of most of it
but
>some of it is other mal ware as well. Tool bars,
desktops,
>favorites and such are all changed and a few other
>programs as well. Also it seems that if you try to
change
>your home page it starts executing things. If you try to
>uninstall several of the programs it says I need to be
>online to do so. I assumed this was false and didn't
want
>to enlist the help of the people that have given me this
>headache. Some how it has web pages that just open if my
>pc in running and online. Not like a pop-up this
actually
>opens my browser and directs me to a webpage that
>its "advanced search methods" assume I'll like, yeah
>right. Anyway I also have hijack this but I don't know
how
>to read the log file. I've tried all the methods I know
to
>get rid of this. Please help.
>
>.
>

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