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Old March 12th, 2005, 02:02 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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hijacked by nowfind

Some POS installed a monstrosity called nowfind as my default page.

When I use regedit to cut the entries pointing to nowfind, they come back within 30 seconds. I'm guesing there is a program running that overwrites the registry over and over.

Anybody know what that program might be?
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Old March 12th, 2005, 02:05 PM     #2 (permalink)
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have you run the usual spybot and adaware programs to see if it catches it?
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Old March 12th, 2005, 02:31 PM     #3 (permalink)
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Old March 12th, 2005, 02:34 PM     #4 (permalink)
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Ran the usual suspects, Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, the MS Antispyware beta. I haven't been to the site listed by pphalan, that's next.

Antispyware keeps popping up messages asking:

Can 4.exe access the ninnynet?
click3.exe ditto

And it asks if a.bat can run

After far too much grief and aggravation, I found a hidden folder in a hidden system folder.

C:\Documents and Settings\AD5MB\Local Settings\Temp

In your computer, of course, AD5MB would be your login name. Local Settings is a hidden system file that belongs there. \Temp, installed last night, does not. It contained all these executables and 3 .tmp files.

I keep deleting it. It keeps coming back. The .tmp files reappear, indicating that something else is putting it back on.

I have to wonder if the self propelled snotrag who put so much effort into making this arrogant, conceited program ever considered the possibility of encountering a vast, nasty tempered, Wheaties-eating joker like me in an alley.
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Old March 13th, 2005, 01:18 AM     #6 (permalink)
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Ahhh, did you ....... ahhh never mind.

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