Re: [PCTECH] Free software loads other stuff - follow up 2

["James R. Newman, CDP" <cis146@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the great help.  What did I ever do before there was
Midrange?

Before reading your emails I'd used regedit and done a "find" on QuikSearch.
In the process, I found thousands of folders in
windows\currentversion\internetsettings\zonemap\domains with ???.com names,
such as "freewebs.com" or "xyz.com".  Funny thing is when I open IE and type
in one of these addresses, nothing comes up.  Anyway, I've been going
through and deleting them one by one.  Is there an easier way?

TIA.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James R. Newman, CDP" <cis146@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] 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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