Re: "Sponsored link" placed in many IE6 pages
From: gerryf (gerryf_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/03/04
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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:13:38 -0500
Glad to help.
BHOs are basically a good idea terribly abused. After working on problem
systems for a while, you just get to know which ones are evil and which ones
are good....and there are a whole lot more of the evil ones then the good
ones, sadly.
"Fred Athearn" <fga@vermontel.net> wrote in message
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> That did the trick. I found and ran the BHO Demon and it found
> dskrtf.dll (last in a list of seven) and disabling it did the trick.
> That was a bad one since a lot of bloggers I read put in strange links
> that almost looked like the bogus dsktrf ones.
>
> This just goes to show you what can happen to you running .exe files
> you get from lime wire. And I didn't even have a current Ghost image
> of my system. I was sweating it. No more working without a net for
> me.
>
> Again thanks for the quick help. But now suppose next I need to try
> to find out what some of those other BHO dlls are. I only recognized
> a few of the others by name. I will leave that for another day.
>
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:06:06 -0500, "gerryf" <gerryf@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Must be the day for BHOs....
> >
> >you need to remove the desktop traffic browser helper object.
> >
> >Easiest way is download either BHO Demon or hijackthis
> >
> >In hijackthis, the item you want to remove is:
> > O2 - BHO: ohb - {CB5B2BC6-F957-4D8A-BE67-83F3EC58BA01} -
> >C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DSKTRF.DLL
> >
> >
> >
> >"Fred Athearn" <fga@vermontel.net> wrote in message
> >news:ghu0r0p6698ej8fhh86i8uvhs2sf2qe3cu@4ax.com...
> >> I think that I have picked up some sort of bit of ad-aware or scum
> >> ware. The last time I did a restart I found a bunch of commercial
> >> shortcuts on my desktop and now every time I run IE 6 I find words and
> >> parts of words on the web pages I visit have become hyper links.
> >>
> >> For example in an article containing the word "publication" the "cat"
> >> part of that word is a hyper link. The mouse-over message is "Best
> >> cat" and the status bar message is "Sponsored link". The link itself
> >> takes on to something called
> >> http://toolbar.desktoptraffic.net/cgi-bin//ezlclk.fcgi?id=100 I think
> >> that some of the links put a new shortcut to commercial sites on the
> >> desktop. This is not just on one site but lots and lots of ones and
> >> it all started at once.
> >>
> >> I have run ad-aware and CW shredder and it has not fixed it. I think
> >> that some sort of program has somehow changed IE 6. Perhaps I need to
> >> somehow reinstall it. Any thoughts on this problem?
> >
>
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