Elidor
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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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Crazy Guggenheim
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Sat Jun-25-05 10:47 AM
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1. Try these detection software. Spybot, Microsoft Antispyware, |
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Spysweeper. Spysweeper has a 30 Day Trial. *With those two pests, Kazaa and Windupdates first *disable* System Restore then re-run the software. Also run those in Safe Mode, it's will pick up a lot stuff if there.* I'm not sure but, I think WindUpdate is a part of a virus package so run *updated* virus protection again.
Any questions fell free to PM me.
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Jersey Devil
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Sat Jun-25-05 01:07 PM
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2. How to remove windupdates |
Elidor
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Sat Jun-25-05 08:19 PM
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I may have some additional work to do on this one.
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Mon Jun-27-05 04:10 PM
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4. This might be a good time to switch to Linux... |
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I suggest Ubuntu. It's free, so give it a shot.
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Fri May 10th 2024, 10:50 PM
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