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charlie86

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charlie86

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October 21st, 2004 20:00

DEEP DOO DOO Spyware

i got a huge/small but extremely annoying problem,  I have this toolbar that keep appearing in my internet explorer, "hotsearchbar.com bar." it comes up whenever a new Iexplorer window comes up, and i've tried to stop it and delete but i can't find it. Spybot can't find it, and Mcaffee can't either. My firewall(Mcaffee) is up and running, but i guess it got through somehow. I've also searched all over the web with yahoo/google and i found some stuff, but it didn't help because i don't understand  "adaware log files." i'm hoping that there is someone here that can help me, or at least heard of the if this and knows what's causing it.
  • charlie86

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    Posted October 21st, 2004 22:00

    tyvm, i'll get to work on that right now. But i may ask some more questions though, 'cause i don't know how to remove registry keys :smileytongue:
  • Denny Denham

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    Posted October 21st, 2004 22:00

    charlie86,

    See if you can get rid of it with the procedures here.

  • charlie86

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    Posted October 21st, 2004 23:00

    ok, i've been able to get rid of most of the registry keys, but haven't been able to find some of the others, and i can't find winhot32.cab i've searched everywhere and even tried the search tool. MY settings allow me to see system and inviseble files so i wonder what's the problem, and when i delete the stuff, it get reinstalled when i restart.
  • msil217

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    Posted October 22nd, 2004 00:00

    Download and run this program, hijackthis, and post results to the below link


    Post results here

    If you have trouble finding Hijackthis, copy and paste this link to your browser:

    http://computercops.biz/zx/Merijn/hijackthis.zip

    Message Edited by msil217 on 10-21-2004 08:29 PM