Trojan thing

Henry, please read these pages *before* going online with your new WinXP
machine:

Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security


Henry wrote:
To all who replied.

Thank you for trying to help me, and I am sorry if I seemed ungrateful
when I responded on Friday - it was not intended, I was just totally
overwhelmed by the inundation of apparently conflicting advice and
irrelevant comments, I was not anticipating such a huge response. For
me, an old man with other worries in my life (including my health - I am
off to the hospital for an appointment in an hour from now), it was just
too much too cope with and I panicked.

I was spending all the time I could trying to follow the very specific
advice I was getting and was getting absolutely nowhere. I don't know how
many things I downloaded in the hope of discovering the source of the
problem, and how many times I trudged my way through the complexities of
Regedit changing the things suggested, only to find that 5 minutes later
they had all been put back again.

Anyway, to summarise, yesterday we went out and got a new XP machine,
partly due to the fact that the machine is very old anyway. I am
transferring a bare minimum of data to the new machine to avoid the
possibility of transferring the problem with it, mainly my photo
collection.

Hopefully I will be able to run that for a few years before I hit any
other trouble, by which time I will probably be ready to forget all about
computers and say to hell with it all.

By the way, to those who said I should have posted to the various
anti-virus newsgroups mentioned, that was impossible as my office network
only supports a very small range of groups, of which this is one, and I
was not able to get at the newsgroups from home because of the problems.

One final question to Gary before I go. Of all the _common_ file types,
do you know which types of files that I may have created myself are most
likely to have been infected since they were stored and might now carry
the "thing" with them?

Once again, thanks for all your efforts, and the problem is now basically
sorted, though not by the means hoped.

best regards

Henry

I have information about my mouse and need help to redirect the file to the
proper location. I may start a new thread but hopefully you will see this.
I almost have it and with your help, Mikhail I am sure that I will get it
fixed. Thanks in advance and have a great day!

GodSpeed! (May God Go With You)

"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote in message
...
: See then if McAfee specific page, with the Removal Instructions, will
: help:
:
: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_126244.htm
:
: And see the third message in
: http://help.lockergnome.com/index.ph...T&f=48&t=30178
:
: quote
: ...
: This program then placed two dll files. One called sp.dll into my
: c:\documentsandsettings\local settings\temp directory and a dmgn.dll
: into my c:windows\system32 directory.
: ...
: All back to normal.
: /quote
:
: In Win98 they will be in \windows\temp folder -- instead of c:\documents
: and settings\local settings\temp, and probably in c:\windows\system
: instead of c:\windows\system32 folder. With this correction, the recipe
: should work and in WIn98, too.
: --
: Mikhail Zhilin
: http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
: Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
: Please reply to the newsgroups only.
: ======
:
: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:37:01 -0000, "Henry" wrote:
:
: "Mikhail Zhilin" wrote
:
:
: ..
: See also:
: http://www.trojaner-info.de/anleitun...out_blank.html
: (it seems that is your specific case), and
: ..
:
: Sorry, this page is in German... But probably that will help
: nevertheless: the Registry keys and file names are common.
:
: -----------------------------------
:
: Thank you for your response.
:
: You suggested using AdAware, but as I said in the OP, I have already done
so
: and it failed to find the problem, let alone cure it.
:
: The German page, however, seems to confirm that AdAware is no help with
this
: one:
:
: Babelfish translation:
:
: "Numerous users of the InterNet Explorers of Microsoft strike themselves
for
: some weeks with a particularly aggressive Browser Hijacker around, which
is
: to be removed only very with difficulty. All usual Tools as for example
the
: CWShredder, Spybot search & Destroy, SpywareBlaster and Ad-aware is at
: present not able to remove this Browser Hijacker. Also with most
concerning
: meanwhile sufficiently the well-known ' fix ' with HijackThis brings no
: durable release. If it looks first in such a way, as if the problem is
: solved, then the inadvertent entfuehrung of the starting side is suddenly
: again there at the latest after 24 hours."
:
: Also it speaks about SP.html which I cannot find, only SP.dll which keeps
: appearing in my c:\windows\temp.
:
: By the way, it was McAfee which described StartPage-DU.dll as a Trojan,
not
: me. I would not know a Trojan if I saw one. I have not a clue what the
: difference is between these various things - they all just viruses to me.
I
: just want to get rid of the perishing thing but don't know how.
:
:
:

Better start a new thread. No one will see you in this twisted one.

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Dan" wrote in message
...
| I have information about my mouse and need help to redirect the file
to the
| proper location. I may start a new thread but hopefully you will see
this.
| I almost have it and with your help, Mikhail I am sure that I will get
it
| fixed. Thanks in advance and have a great day!
|
| GodSpeed! (May God Go With You)
|
| "Mikhail Zhilin" wrote in message
| ...
....snip

Thanks PCR.

"PCR" wrote in message
...
: Better start a new thread. No one will see you in this twisted one.
:
: --
: Thanks or Good Luck,
: There may be humor in this post, and,
: Naturally, you will not sue,
: should things get worse after this,
: PCR
:
: "Dan" wrote in message
: ...
: | I have information about my mouse and need help to redirect the file
: to the
: | proper location. I may start a new thread but hopefully you will see
: this.
: | I almost have it and with your help, Mikhail I am sure that I will get
: it
: | fixed. Thanks in advance and have a great day!
: |
: | GodSpeed! (May God Go With You)
: |
: | "Mikhail Zhilin" wrote in message
: | ...
: ...snip
:
:

You are welcome.

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Dan" wrote in message
...
| Thanks PCR.
|
| "PCR" wrote in message
| ...
| : Better start a new thread. No one will see you in this twisted one.
| :
| : --
| : Thanks or Good Luck,
| : There may be humor in this post, and,
| : Naturally, you will not sue,
| : should things get worse after this,
| : PCR
| :
| : "Dan" wrote in message
| : ...
| : | I have information about my mouse and need help to redirect the
file
| : to the
| : | proper location. I may start a new thread but hopefully you will
see
| : this.
| : | I almost have it and with your help, Mikhail I am sure that I will
get
| : it
| : | fixed. Thanks in advance and have a great day!
| : |
| : | GodSpeed! (May God Go With You)
| : |
| : | "Mikhail Zhilin" wrote in message
| : | ...
| : ...snip
| :
| :
|
|