How to Disable IE 6 when AV prog finds Istbar Trojan?

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Moe Hair

Avast just found the JS:Istbar trojan which seems to be loaded into many
sites. In the few occurrences where I've gotten it, Avast can't move it to
the chest so I can delete it because "the file is being used by another
process.

I've tried opening the task manager to end the IEexplorer.exe processing
but a message appears that says "operation could not be completed. Access
denied".

I've also tried using the enditall utility and that doesn't work either.
Obviously, there are other services that this process is running that have
to be stopped first. Is there a good utility that searches for this (I
think I had one in the myrial of programs I use but I can't recall which
one).

What I usually do is reboot to safemode and delete the offending temp
directory in my document/settings.

Any other solutions?
 
Have to give Avast its props. I used the Boottime scan option that
appears when it asks you to move the option. The computer shut down and
found the virus during boot up and deleted it.

Even though most of these trojans are just annoying more than anything, I
feel that they should be removed.

I never could figure out how to get Norton to do a boottime scan, other
than running an emergency disk, so a salute goes out to Avast.
 
Move up to a modern, secure unhijackable browser?
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would that be Firefox? If so, I love the tools such as downloadthemall, but
the thing takes forever to start once you've used it for awhile.
 
Moe said:
would that be Firefox?
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Excellent choice.
If so, I love the tools such as downloadthemall, but the thing
takes forever to start once you've used it for awhile.
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Starts and runs quite well on my W2K 256MB box. There are many of
extensions available; I recommend the PrefBar highly. Put a Clear
Cache button right there in front of you, if that may be your problem.

http://home.rochester.rr.com/bshagnasty/images/prefbar.png
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

Also see this page: http://www.webmasterview.com/browsers/
and scroll down to "config.trim_on_minimize". Maybe setting this to
false will help your speed.
 
thanks for the info - just archived your advice.

Excellent choice.


Starts and runs quite well on my W2K 256MB box. There are many of
extensions available; I recommend the PrefBar highly. Put a Clear
Cache button right there in front of you, if that may be your problem.

http://home.rochester.rr.com/bshagnasty/images/prefbar.png
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

Also see this page: http://www.webmasterview.com/browsers/
and scroll down to "config.trim_on_minimize". Maybe setting this to
false will help your speed.
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty said:
Excellent choice.
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OK, but what about mail & news reader? I tried Thunderbird but that
wouldn't allow me to specify a user name & password for the newsgroup
account, only the mail account... or did I miss something????
 
I use Thunderbird and have it set OK for the news reader with this ng
and my microsoft ng's and have my addy munged for both with no problems.
Joan
 
Joan Archer said:
I use Thunderbird and have it set OK for the news reader with this ng and
my microsoft ng's and have my addy munged for both with no problems.
Joan
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Yes, but do you need a user name & password for your news server that is
different than the one used for e-mail? My problem was that I could set my
user name & password to access e-mail without any problems, but I use a
different news server that needs different settings (and needs to log on
with a user name & password to read mail) and I could find no way to set
that differently, neither could several others that I have asked...
 
I've just been into the settings in Thunderbird for this server which is
news.individual.net and it just has my name and munged email addy. I
have four email accounts with three different ISP's and have no trouble
with any of them with regards sending and receiving email or reading and
posting to my ng's and I only use a munged addy in ng's.
Joan
 
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