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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-25-05 01:44 AM
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The malware finally got so bad, I had to relearn how to hack my registry
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I hadn't poked around in a Windows registry in years, but something called WindUpdates has installed itself on my pooter once a day for a month now, thanks to a brief dalliance with a disease-bearing virtual whore named Kazaa.

I had to create duplicates of four registry keys and one file in the system32 folder posing as a VXD, all of them empty files set to read-only. The files were IDed by AdAware.

There are many others out there, and I may catch other infections, but nothing has been so tenacious as WindUpdates from Kazaa. Whoever made it is a devious pigfucker.
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