Re: Off Topic: Hijacked

Also might want to -- after it's cleaned up -- download the free versions of
ZoneAlarm, AdAware, and SpyBot. Keep them updated and run them often. Set
up ZoneAlarm to block everything.

Good advice from RichA about Internet Explorer -- download and install
Mozilla Firefox -- it's free. It will import your Favorites, passwords, and
the like from IE. Leave IE on the computer (you can't remove it anyway) and
make Firefox your default browser.

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Joe S.



"RichA" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:656t71p718dle8462m8bgukbqanq4e2dvt@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:43:06 -0700, "Starlord" <starlord@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Late last night while trying to get a driver to work my XP got hijacked
and
> >even with the anti-virus and MS's own anti-spyware running, it still got
> >hit. Now I get blasted ads and IE's about blank is shot too. I now get a
> >message on the desktop about somekind of a error and the active desktop
pic
> >can't be displayed, something about error in VXD VMM (01)
> >trojan-spy.html.smitfraud.c and as the XP disk didn't come with the
machine
> >( it's a used one ) I can't run it to fix whatever.
>
> You might try this; Look at the running processes in "Task Manager."
> See if you can i.d. the one causing the problem. Generally, if you
> sort them by the amount of memory they use, these things show up
> using about 1-4 megs. Looks for words in the process such as "ad."
> If you are curious about any process, looking it up in google will
> generally tell you if it's a regular MS process or something else.
> Turn off all you're other programs when looking at Task Manager to
> help isolate the process.
> Once you're sure it's the one, then use the command line (DOS)
> accessory prompt and erase the process from that point. Just type
> "del" and the process name on the command line. So, it might be
> "del adcount.exe" or whatever the thing is called.
> Reboot. It might work.
> Switch to Firefox from IE, if possible. Also, download and run the
> free version of Pop-Up Stopper.
> Lastly, download a copy of registrymechanic and let it check the
> Windows registry for bad or alien entries.
> -Rich
>


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