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How do I get rid of movie pop up?
When I boot up my computer sometimes a movie screen pops up usually with an
advertisement for an upcoming movie. I have run Ad-Aware, Spybot, anti-virus programs, but can't seem to get rid of this. Any suggestions? |
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Hi,
See if you can find anything suspicious loading in these startup areas. -the load= and run= lines in the win.ini, -the [386Enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI (.386 and .vxd files), -the Startup folder, C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp -the AllUsers folder C:\Windows\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup -the registry keys (in order of likeliness) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\RunOnce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServicesOnce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce\Setup HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnceEx You should also run CWShredder from Merijn.org: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 "Clueless in Computer Land" wrote When I boot up my computer sometimes a movie screen pops up usually with an advertisement for an upcoming movie. I have run Ad-Aware, Spybot, anti-virus programs, but can't seem to get rid of this. Any suggestions? |
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How do I get rid of movie pop up?
Hi,
See if you can find anything suspicious loading in these startup areas. -the load= and run= lines in the win.ini, -the [386Enh] section of the SYSTEM.INI (.386 and .vxd files), -the Startup folder, C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp -the AllUsers folder C:\Windows\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup -the registry keys (in order of likeliness) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\RunOnce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServicesOnce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce\Setup HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnceEx You should also run CWShredder from Merijn.org: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 -- Regards, Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS] http://dts-l.org/ How to Configure Outlook Express for Internet News: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=171164 "Clueless in Computer Land" wrote When I boot up my computer sometimes a movie screen pops up usually with an advertisement for an upcoming movie. I have run Ad-Aware, Spybot, anti-virus programs, but can't seem to get rid of this. Any suggestions? |
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