From: "./dz" <
[email protected]>
| Dave:
| I downloaded all (3) of the utilities. I ran the lavasoft utility many,
| many times. The first time it showed evidence of some 'CoolWeb' variants and
| some other stuff -- all of which were removed. Subsequent runs have turned
| up no more of that stuff.
|
| I then ran SpyBot S&D 1.4 and it found absolutely nothing (I did get the
| most recent updates before running it).
|
| I then ran the BHODemon and it found only (4) things; all of which are
| marked as benign (e.g., AcroIEHelper.dll, SDHelper.dll, and a couple of
| SpywareDoctor references that it is tagged as 'file is missing' - I'm
| assuming this is a leftover from some uninstall I did of that 'tool').
|
| So effectively, these utilities determine nothing is wrong. YET !! and this
| is the annoying thing -- the Web redirection persists. I've even tried a
| different search engine (I used MSN.com instead of GOOGLE) -- but when I
| click the hyperlink for the result of the search, off it goes to some ad
| site.
|
| Any other ideas??? Is it possible to uninstall/re-install IE, and if so,
| would that help?
| (By the way, I do not have any distribution disk with IE on it, so either
| it's lying around on my PC somewhere in a .cab and I don't know what I'm
| looking at, or I got it off the web directly from MS at some point).
|
| In any case, if you can help -- I'm still very interested. The really nasty
| thing about this is that my kids use the computer and it has on occassion
| brought up some really crude porn sites. Not only that, but even the
| non-porn sites sometimes, if you're not careful, you don't realize that you
| were redirected and can accidentally ask for things (which of course makes
| the problem worse).
| ./dz
|
| "David H. Lipman" wrote:
||>> Thank you David. I think I've received advice from you before on some
|>> entirely different threads, in an entirely different community, and they've
|>> always been very useful. I wasn't able to 'discover' within the limits of my
|>> patience how to 'rate' your reply, but when I find out how to, I shall do so.
|>> In the meantime, this comment will have to suffice. Thanks again.
|>> ./dz
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm
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