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Two dodgy looking entries in Start up folder

  • 08-12-2008 05:29PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭


    dodgystartupitems.jpg

    Any ideas?


Comments

  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Stop them from starting.


    Go to system32, take ownership of the files and delete them.

    Failing that, boot into a live distro and delete the files.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    if you run msconfig you can choose a minimal startup with less junk and you can run various spyware / virus removers

    have a look at the stickies here as how to get a hijack log to post for inspection


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭Username!


    Be careful with entries like them, they can easily multiply if another EXE service is running hidden.

    Go into your system32 folder, change the view to details and sort by the date created... check and see if there are any EXE files next to them for date created, they should be pretty obvious.

    If you can't remove them, use Hijack This to delete them on reboot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I ran various anti trojan progs yesterday and managed to get rid of one entry, I googled the names and suprsingly nothing came back.

    Neither of the remaining entries are loading now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭Username!


    The spyware is now gone, thats what was generating the DLL files of random names (why you could't find anything on Google) and causing popups etc. as it's loaded into the rundll32.exe.


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