Ad-ware/spyware or trick to remove crap 2005-04-27 - By Bradley R. Gabe
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Sounds like a perfect situation for HiJack cleaner, if you ask me. It'll
list every executable in your registry that's set to run on startup. The
one that runs the msmsgs service will be in the list, and you should be
able to clean it out.
-Brad
>Thanks everyone who answered my call. I purchased AdAware. Although it did
>find some stuff, the pop-ups kept popping.
>
>However, I may have found the fucker. There is a service running called
>msmsgs. Somehow as soon as I kill it, no more pop-ups. The only thing is
>that the service does not tell how it got started, so it will be a matter
>of killing it each time I boot.
>
>I will look into Zonelabs stuff asap.
>
>
>Alan, I am genuinely interested in what you have have posted. Could you
>elaborate? I installed nLite but it requires the Windows installation
>files, wich I think I don't have on my disk. Do I have to run nLite using
>the Windows installation CD?
>
>
>Thanks
>Bernard
>
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>Alan Jones wrote:
>
>>If you're really serious about killing IE without killing netview - go
>>to http://nuhi.msfn.org/ and get nLite. You can use it to modify your
>>windows installation CD and get rid of some of the bloat such as
>>unwanted services, apps, wallpapers etc. You can remove the IE app,
>>but leave the IE Core which will let apps based on the IE core such as
>>netview run.
>>
>>There's also quite a bit of other stuff you can remove. I had written
>>an article on how to do it with XSI in mind, but I seem to have lost
>>it and never got to around to putting it online.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Alan.
>>
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