[Sussex] XP pain

[Mike Diack]

Yes - Hijack This is very useful for building a report of the machine to 
send to experts for diagnosis.
But for God's sake once you've got this cleaned up, ensure that as many 
accounts as possible on the XP are reverted to standard user and ensure you 
password protect any admin accounts.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Crowhurst" <info at johnscomputersupport.co.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] XP pain

>> In windows XP, yes I know it serves me right, I have a symbol in the
>> running program bar flashing between a yellow warning triangle and a blue
>> circle with yellow X.
>>
>> This keeps giving me a system alert! which leads to an IE link to a
>> spyware sales site at this address: http://www.spylocked.com/?aff=334
>>
>> AVG and AdAware show all clear and right click won't say what it is.
>
> Isn't XP wonderful, so well liked that even the spyware companies can't
> wait to jump on the bandwagon and add their dodgy software to an already
> dodgy OS.
>
> Try out AVG antispyware, I'm sure I've removed this one and the annoying
> "system is low on resources"
>
> HijackThis is a good program to play around with when you are deleting
> Spylocked's dlls and stuff. Sometimes these programs are so poorly written
> that changing the name of the directory they are running from will cripple
> them.
>
> -- 
> John Crowhurst
> John's Computer Support
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