Ad-ware/spyware or trick to remove crap 2005-04-27 - By Bernard Lebel
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hijackthis, so far, seem to have done a nice job. I can't I have to run
through this to get rid of stupid pop-ups.
If all else fails there is still the good old brute force drive
format.......
Thanks
Bernard
Bradley R. Gabe wrote:
> 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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