Re: Off Topic: Hijacked



On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:43:06 -0700, Starlord 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.


The issue is addressed in the usenet group alt.comp.freeware



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