[AT] Off topic, computer related.

[charliehill]

Thanks Steve, that is the kind of activity I've been seeing for quite a 
while but it got to the point that the computer was unusable.  If you call 
apoplexy spending about 35 or 40 hours sitting at a computer trying to fix 
it then I guess that's what it did to me.  I'll put it this way,  if I knew 
the SOB that wrote this program and could put my hands on him he'd have 
apoplexy.

I'll try your fix tonight.  Right now, it's St Patricks day and I need to 
get the potatoes planted in my garden.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Off topic, computer related.


> charliehill wrote:
>> Update.
>>
>> I've gotten this thing beat down to two files that I can't remove
>> .....YET....   I was finally able to download Spybot search and destroy 
>> but
>> it won't get these files either or even find them.  I've found some web
>> sites dedicated to this problem but the solutions are manual solutions 
>> that
>> require going into a particular folder and substituting an instruction
>> stream that has to be cut and pasted from the web site.  First I have to 
>> get
>> comfortable that the web sites are legit and then get comfortable with 
>> the
>> proceedure but I'm gonna do it.
>>
>> If any of you ever do a web seach, click on a link and then think to
>> yourself that the link took you somewhere different than what you thought
>> you might have the problem.   Look for these files:
>>
>> Now it's comming up clean except two files:  C:Documents and settings\All
>>>> Users\applications Data\Temp:A8ADE5D8:$Data
>>
>> and  C:Documents and
>>>> settings\All Users\applications Data\Temp:DFC5A2B2:$Data
>>>>
>>
>> If you have either of these files or a similar file with a differerent
>> alpha/numeric stream but in applications data\Temp or if you find any 
>> files
>> that have the extension $DATA then you need to figure out how to get rid 
>> of
>> them.  I don't know how long I've had this problem but for months, maybe
>> over a year my computer has been slow and I've often gone to web sites 
>> where
>> I thought the link was a misrepresentation of what the web site really 
>> was.
>> If they hadn't gotten greedy and started doing stuff that made my 
>> computer
>> unusable there's no telling how  long they would have gotten away with 
>> it.
>>
>> By the way,  I run anti-virus and anti-spyware software and keep my drive
>> cleaned up.  I don't know exactly when or how the problem got started.  I
>> guess there must have been a period of time that my protection was off 
>> for
>> some reason.
>>
>> Thanks to all that helped me on the list and especially to Mike Sloane 
>> for
>> repeatedly helping me off list.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>
> You will find a lot of temp files. Those are usually windows swap files.
>
> BUT there is a way to eliminate them.
>
> First shut off system restore. Shut down the machine. When it comes back
> up enter safe mode. While in safe mode use search and just type in temp.
> Run it and then delete the files.
> Next type in .tmp and then delete those.
>
> That will clean up your temp files.
>
> Shut down and let the machine come back up.
> Go in and turn system restore back on.
>
> The reason you got hit is that a redirector isn't really a virus or
> spyware. Many programs won't see it because it essentially drops a
> simple command in the registry that goes down a list of sites at random
> whenever you go online. It then substitutes that url in place of the one
> you selected. Sort of fits into a malware definition except that other
> than causing apoplexy in computer owners it really doesn't hurt you...
>
> -- 
> Steve W.
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