A
Aaron Seet
This is 99.9% likely the fault of the n-CASE spyware which I accidentally
let through a couple of days back. Its suite of programs conveniently
altered my IE behaviour to throw "abort" errors while rendering pages from
websites and redirect me to other web pages (presumably theirs).
In my quest to uninstall these pests the Add/Remove Programs control panel
actually throws actually throws errors and fail to list the installed
programs. I hunted down the running processes and Registry Run key, killed
them, then was able to remove the program entries in Add/Remove Programs.
However the "PAD lookups by n-CASE" installation simply couldn't be remove,
even when the rest have been expelled. From what's written in
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/ncase/index.phtml
looks like manually removal is necessary, which was what I did. But now, the
Search Results separate window won't appear when I click for Search from
WE's context menu or Start menu. I can only run Search via the Search pane
(replacing the Folders pane).
Even more damage: any link in IE that opens up a new window will fail - it
will simply stall for a minute or two, then no new window appears. Ctrl-N or
New Window itself works, but not by clicking on a link or Javascript. I have
tried reinstalling IE 6 SP1 and got stabbed once again - not only did it not
fix the problems, it can't download patches from WindowsUpdate - the
download dialog box just sits there with no progress bar movement. I have to
manually download patches from download.microsoft.com.
There was some talk about re-registering a suite of DLLs related to IE, well
I did them and nothing's improved. Has anybody experienced this kinda
symptoms? I don't know what else to look out for.
Frustrated,
Aaron
let through a couple of days back. Its suite of programs conveniently
altered my IE behaviour to throw "abort" errors while rendering pages from
websites and redirect me to other web pages (presumably theirs).
In my quest to uninstall these pests the Add/Remove Programs control panel
actually throws actually throws errors and fail to list the installed
programs. I hunted down the running processes and Registry Run key, killed
them, then was able to remove the program entries in Add/Remove Programs.
However the "PAD lookups by n-CASE" installation simply couldn't be remove,
even when the rest have been expelled. From what's written in
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/ncase/index.phtml
looks like manually removal is necessary, which was what I did. But now, the
Search Results separate window won't appear when I click for Search from
WE's context menu or Start menu. I can only run Search via the Search pane
(replacing the Folders pane).
Even more damage: any link in IE that opens up a new window will fail - it
will simply stall for a minute or two, then no new window appears. Ctrl-N or
New Window itself works, but not by clicking on a link or Javascript. I have
tried reinstalling IE 6 SP1 and got stabbed once again - not only did it not
fix the problems, it can't download patches from WindowsUpdate - the
download dialog box just sits there with no progress bar movement. I have to
manually download patches from download.microsoft.com.
There was some talk about re-registering a suite of DLLs related to IE, well
I did them and nothing's improved. Has anybody experienced this kinda
symptoms? I don't know what else to look out for.
Frustrated,
Aaron
