Re: Look2Me enfarction!

From: Jan Il (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:17:35 -0700

Hi ng_reader :-)

Try the following programs and see if they will help get rid of the problem.

Look2me -

Try CWS Shredder and/or Hijack This
see: http://www.nondisputandum.com/html/anti_spyware.html

CWShredder: Free
http://tinyurl.com/2l9kl

also some other tools available to clean on
http://www.nondisputandum.com/html/registry___system.html

Hope this helps.

Jan :)

> Having the devil of a time trying to remove this root level spyware
> banner popping nuisance. No doubt the child clicked yes to the bright
> letters and sounds or something like that. Buggers.
>
> Spy Bot and Ad Aware catch it, but won't restart to remove it from
> memory. Seems the look2me knows how to OVER-RIDE this function.
>
> So the other option is to stop explorer from my task list, kill the
> dll's in windows/system and edit offending keys in reg-edit. Not
> really working there. Can't kill Explorer (it's not a running
> process), can't delete the key without the key writing itself
> somewhere else and creating another pop-up {can't kill explorer}. I
> deleted the MSGSYS.dll, MSG ***.dll, and the MSGSYS.EXE.
>
> Didn't do anything. Somebody's burning through whatever karma they
> got left in a bad way.
>
> Anyone seen a good fix for this that will work?
>
> I only have WinME, so none of the NT4 2000 XP builds.
>
> I could really use some help.