Might just temper my enthusiasm for a few days.
Had some funny things happening since the install of X1. Can't be
sure that it is the cause of my problems, but looks a bit suspicious
as I haven't changed anything else recently.
After a few hours of surfing, screen starts to break up with missing
lines which reappear when you run the cursor over them.
Ran full virus check with no problems.
Ran Ad aware and SpyBot and it found a few items, but notably an item
which I think was called Alexis, and which I think is associated with
Search type programs, but Google didn't turn up anything significant.
Let Ad aware delete the items it found, rebooted and re ran Adaware
and a couple of items reappeared, but not Alexis. Cleaned them,
disabled X1 and rebooted. So far so good, but........all a bit
worrying.
Seeker
I ran into a problem, not related to yours, but that showed me that
Ad-Aware and Spybot do _not_ catch everything nor doing everything
you're supposed to besides (running AVs, etc).
I had a search component take over mine that would reset my IE toolbar
back to default after each reboot and that open up a search site and
show the search window. I never use it, so that was a dead giveaway.
This was despite that fact that I said NO to the box that came up when
I surfed somewhere that triggered this search component to be
"installed"!!!
Updated all the files and then ran my two AV scanner, Ad-Aware and
Spybot and STILL there was a problem. So, went searching for solution
in an MS ng re IE. They didn't give me the answer but link given did
lead me after a couple of hours to stumble upon a Lavasoft forum. In
that forum they talked about HijackThis.
This is an amazing app that shows you registry entries that are
suspect. However, it shows BOTH the good and bad so it must be used
carefully. However, if you register with the Lavasoft forum, that
forum has "experts" that can read the HijackThis log and they have the
experience to know what entries tend to be bad. The nice thing is
that HijackThis makes a backp so you can restore a deleted entry.
That was the only thing that took the nasty search component out.
There was no malware installed on my computer - no unaccounted for EXE
file in msconfig - NOTHING. Just 3 registry entries that once they
were removed, everything was okay.
Here are the URLs:
Lavasoft HijackThis Logs forum:
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showforum=44
HijackThis v1.96 info pg (scroll down there's a little bit more info
than apparent at first):
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
direct dl link:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/hijackthis.zip
REMEMBER: it shows GOOD _and_ BAD entries so one must be careful in
the deleting.
Sorry I didn't post this info earlier to the group; I forgot to!
That's bad. But here it all is.
Good luck!
