Re: OK, what is HKLM software?

From: Becky Young (blupencl_at_aol.combadstuff)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: 24 Jun 2004 20:48:34 GMT

Oh no, Sheila. You are wrong. I was doing strange things to computers when Neal
was still sh*ttin' yeller.

Of course I assumed that there was something awry, so I ran some spyware
finder. Two of them, in fact.

Of course they found all kinds of "dangerous" and "severe" spyware on my
machine - for free.

But to get rid of it I had to pay. I remembered reading about somebody (prolly
Neal, right?) doing this, and it having been the wrong thing to do, so I've
left it as is.

This probably all came about because I was looking for the cheapest air fare
from Little Rock to Gulfport, MS next week, when I'm flying down to see my
favorite country singer play.

I think sticking with the $245 air+hotel would have been a lot less costly.

>Ye gods and little fishes, just when I think Neal is the undisputed
>champion
>> of doing strange things to computers, you come along and top him, Becky.
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>> HKLM translates to Handle Key Local Machine, and is one of the Registry
>> hives. Software is one of the subkeys in that hive. Yes, everyone has that
>> registry hive\subkey on their machine, but it has got _no_ business having
>a
>> shortcut on your startup/programs menu, and I haven't got the faintest
>clue
>> how you ever managed to get it there, LOL.
>> --
>> Sheila
>> To reply to me, add the prefix real. to my address.
>>
>>
>> "Becky Young" <blupencl@aol.combadstuff> wrote in message
>> news:20040624144946.19363.00000385@mb-m17.aol.com...
>> > I looked at my startup menu and everything seems to be regular Windows
>> stuff,
>> > but it says HKLM\Software before it.
>> >
>> > I keep looking to find out what this is, but every site I try is an
>> > advertisement for McAfee. I have Norton and it picked up nothing on a
>scan
>> this
>> > morning.
>> >
>> > Does everybody's computer have HKLM software on it?
>> > Becky Young
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Becky Young

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