An animal control officer with too much spare time used the assistant
director's computer to go surfing. Result: she has six porn-related
desktop icons and her startup destination is Alta-search.com... Also,
there is a "Favorites" entry in OE for each of the desktop porn icons.
Each icon has a web description and a DOS description in properties.

This is a Windows 98 machine which I believe is networked to two other
desktop computers. They're using a DSL connection

Deleting the icons from the desktop and correcting the startup
destination for OE works, until the machine is rebooted.

I cleared the OE history and cookies, deleted the C:\windows\temporary
Internet files; emptied the trash can and rebooted--and all of the junk
returned. During reboot, a dialog box refers to a VB script error and a
RUNDLL32 problem, but that is over my head. Essentially, I tried all I
know which isn't much, but more than anyone at the animal shelter. It's
as though these icons and the instructions to load them are being hidden
somewhere, and return to life, even when I think I've gotten rid of
them.

First, what has happened, and how? Second, how can it be corrected?

On the humorous side, imagine being this officer, who has to report to
this woman each day, and her knowing that his surfing led to this mess.
LOL

Well, I'd appreciate your help--and the assistant director would
probably give you a hug.

Thank you very much.
Michael
A day without recoil is like a day without sunshine!

On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:41:43 -0500, Michael A. Ball
<Guardian@wireco.net> wrote:

Start with these. If that won't help dunno, somebody else can get you
sorted out.

Download, update and use *all* of the following:

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.safer-networking.org/
SpyBot S&D guide
http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~network/spybot/

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Spyware Blaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.net-integration.net/tools...reblaster.html

CWShredder
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip


joevan

Download, update and use *all* of the following:

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpyBot S&D guide
http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~network/spybot/

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://www.lavasoft.nu/

Spyware Blaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.net-integration.net/tools...reblaster.html

CWShredder (CoolWebSearch remover)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip


On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:41:43 -0500, in
<mklr60huobr0ev29evdhn16ahpdt52i2k1@4ax.com>
Michael A. Ball scrawled:

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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html