Two dodgy looking entries in Start up folder

mike65 · 08-12-2008 05:29PM #1

Any ideas?

Jonathan · 08-12-2008 05:33PM

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.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-12-2008 02:06AM

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

Username! · 10-12-2008 10:08AM

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.

mike65 · 10-12-2008 11:47AM

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.

Username! · 10-12-2008 11:51AM

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.

Two dodgy looking entries in Start up folder

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