Hijacked?

I have run a virus scan. I ran spysweeper and removed all
spyware. I tried adaware and it shows that there are
files it can't remove in the restore folder. I have shut
off restore but adaware still comes up with the restore
files. Can I delete them? If so, how. I tried hijack this
but when I get on the Internet another IE page pops up on
top of my hompage. The homepage has not been changed by
this thing. This is driving me nuts. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Disable Restore. Reboot immediately. Enable it again. Reboot immediately.
You will lose all your restore points but the malware will no longer have a
home on your computer.

Alias

"Mike" wrote

I have run a virus scan. I ran spysweeper and removed all
spyware. I tried adaware and it shows that there are
files it can't remove in the restore folder. I have shut
off restore but adaware still comes up with the restore
files. Can I delete them? If so, how. I tried hijack this
but when I get on the Internet another IE page pops up on
top of my hompage. The homepage has not been changed by
this thing. This is driving me nuts. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

-----Original Message-----
Disable Restore. Reboot immediately. Enable it again.
Reboot immediately.
You will lose all your restore points but the malware
will no longer have a
home on your computer.

Alias

"Mike" wrote

I have run a virus scan. I ran spysweeper and removed
all
spyware. I tried adaware and it shows that there are
files it can't remove in the restore folder. I have
shut
off restore but adaware still comes up with the restore
files. Can I delete them? If so, how. I tried hijack
this
but when I get on the Internet another IE page pops up
on
top of my hompage. The homepage has not been changed by
this thing. This is driving me nuts. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.


.
I did the restore on/off as you suggested. It did not
get rid of the files, however, adaware was able to remove
them afterwards. There are two files in the
Windows\System folder it could not remove. I booted to a
startup disk and deleted them. I am running another
adaware scan. Will let you know how it goes. The files in
the system folder were cemdlg32.dll and ipfrared.dll.

-----Original Message-----

-----Original Message-----
Disable Restore. Reboot immediately. Enable it again.
Reboot immediately.
You will lose all your restore points but the malware
will no longer have a
home on your computer.

Alias

"Mike" wrote

I have run a virus scan. I ran spysweeper and removed
all
spyware. I tried adaware and it shows that there are
files it can't remove in the restore folder. I have
shut
off restore but adaware still comes up with the
restore
files. Can I delete them? If so, how. I tried hijack
this
but when I get on the Internet another IE page pops
up
on
top of my hompage. The homepage has not been changed
by
this thing. This is driving me nuts. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.


.
I did the restore on/off as you suggested. It did not
get rid of the files, however, adaware was able to
remove
them afterwards. There are two files in the
Windows\System folder it could not remove. I booted to a
startup disk and deleted them. I am running another
adaware scan. Will let you know how it goes. The files
in
the system folder were cemdlg32.dll and ipfrared.dll.
.
That got it. Adaware scan came up clean. No more popups,
for now. Thank you for all your help. Mike.

Mike - now would be a good time to check that System Restore is functioning
as intended (from your posts so far, it would seem that it wasn't doing so,
at least until the reset you performed)

Look here for some suggestions on how to test - and other ways to ensure
that SR is in perfect health.
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/quiktipsr.htm

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"Mike" wrote in message
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-----Original Message-----

-----Original Message-----
Disable Restore. Reboot immediately. Enable it again.
Reboot immediately.
You will lose all your restore points but the malware
will no longer have a
home on your computer.

Alias

"Mike" wrote

I have run a virus scan. I ran spysweeper and removed
all
spyware. I tried adaware and it shows that there are
files it can't remove in the restore folder. I have
shut
off restore but adaware still comes up with the
restore
files. Can I delete them? If so, how. I tried hijack
this
but when I get on the Internet another IE page pops
up
on
top of my hompage. The homepage has not been changed
by
this thing. This is driving me nuts. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.


.
I did the restore on/off as you suggested. It did not
get rid of the files, however, adaware was able to
remove
them afterwards. There are two files in the
Windows\System folder it could not remove. I booted to a
startup disk and deleted them. I am running another
adaware scan. Will let you know how it goes. The files
in
the system folder were cemdlg32.dll and ipfrared.dll.
.
That got it. Adaware scan came up clean. No more popups,
for now. Thank you for all your help. Mike.