Re: Free software loads other stuff - follow up

Since posting my original message, the "extra stuff" that was loaded
unpacked a virus.  The apparent culprit was QuikSearch, which came with one
of the aquarium programs downloaded from Cnet.

I ran Ad-Aware and it didn't pick it up.  Spybot caught it but couldn't
uninstall and neither could Norton.  I had to go into msconfig, uncheck
several things in the start up panel, reboot in safe mode, delete
QuikSearch.exe in the c:\windows\system32 folder, reboot, and run a full
scan with NAV, AdAware, and Spybot.  Man, what I wouldn't give for 30
seconds and my hands around the guy's throat who put that out!!

So now I've got these items in my start up that I don't want there and that
occupy memory.  I know I can uncheck them and I know I can delete the actual
files that are run on start up but how or where can I delete the entries
that are executed on boot up?




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James R. Newman, CDP" <cis146@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Tech" <PcTech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:10 AM
Subject: [PCTECH] Free software loads other stuff


I'm running a Dell (don't buy one) 1.4 ghz with 256 meg ram running Windows
XP Pro.

A couple of days ago my 4 year old son saw an aquarium program running in an
office superstore. Rather than buy the program I downloaded 3 from Cnet and
installed them. I quickly noticed they'd loaded lots of other stuff like
pop-ups. 1 of them had an uninstall. I deleted the folders the programs were
loaded into and ran Norton Windows Doctor to get rid of anything left
behind.
When I run MSCONFIG I notice I've still got stuff loading that wasn't there
before such as:

eeuneqv
vbabsxs
inetmgr
QuikSearch.exe
li01f948.dll
iel2cde.dll

I think these were left behind by the freebies but how do I know for sure? I
know I can find the files and delete them but won't Windows still try and
load at startup? How do I get this stuff to not load (get it out of
MSCONFIG)?
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