[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Spyware that won't go away!

[WazoO]

  Dang it ... info in this and last post specific to Win-9x ....
XP might be in a different spot .. Don't have one of those
to check on right now ...

"WazoO" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>
>   See no reply to the last, so maybe another approach needed?
>
>   Start | Run | Regedit
>   Edit | Find | Runonce
>
>   Looking for the entry under :
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
>
>   Back up a couple items and look at what's under the "Run" folder.
> These are items fired up at Bot time ... one of them "may" be
> responsible for the "re-installing" of the malware in question.
> Have the lady look at the list and see what she doesn't
> recognize (or maybe she'll see the thing that's been removed
> in the past?) ....
>
>   If the bad item is there, right-click and delete it .. close
> the window, shut-down to power off ... turn it back on ..
>
>   Not ignoring the caveats that any oops in here can make
> the rest of the evening suck <g>
>
>