Need a PC geek.

[chumley]

Okay, so I stop by some porn site through the Absolut-Series TGP (so sue me) and some $#@&*% site automatically loads some sort of app onto my computer (yes I've got a firewall.) It's some sort of dial-up service called Ukraine Teens (that wasn't even the name of the site I was at) and they charge 3.99 per minute.
I went into Explorer (Win98) and found a dial-up folder with the icon and exe file, so I deleted the whole folder. But the icon down on the lower right taskbar keeps appearing every time I boot up, even though I delete each time.
How do I get rid of this junk for good?

Thanks

 

[Harpoon]

Bump and

Did you check in the windows/startup folder?

I am not a geek, but there might be something there you missed... Good Luck

 

[rexfelis]

I have not had that problem before, or heard of it, and I have not worked with Windows much in a few months, but there are several ways that this could be happening.

Windows is designed to be easy to use, which means the end user never sees most of what's going on. It's got so many places to put things that it would take a lifetime to find them all.

It's almost certainly got some form of executale hidden in another folder, and entries in the registry that are calling it. Finding those, even for someone as experienced as I am, would probably be tricky. (I don't claim to be the all knowing PC geek, but I know my fair share.)

This is a good case for using something like Ghost or GoBack. Unfortunately, aside from the startup menu idea, the only things I can think of to do are too dangerous to suggest because they require special knowledge and care to implement without potentially damaging your operating system.

I hope someone else here knows more than I do about this.

 

[Draco]

I'm assuming its Win 98

OK, open your Start menu and click Run,
type 'msconfig' (without quotation marks)
go to the Start Up tab and see if Dialer.exe is listed there, if it is, remove the check mark next to it.
Then click OK.
Windows will prompt for a reboot.
Reboot and see if its back.
If that didn't cure it, its a Registry string. PM me and I'll walk you thru it. I wont post reg hacks in the forum, someone might try it and create a catastrophy. Best of Luck.

PS, I'm not a geek, I'm a certified Technician (A+/Net+)
theres a subtle and slight difference..I dont wear a pocket protector....

 

[Juspar Emvan]

lmao Draco

Next thing you're going to tell me you don't have a pony tail either?

BTW - professional opinion - this animated av better?

And a question of my own for the computer savy - if I have cyber sex in MSN on my work PC, can the boss tell?

My note to chumley: you clicked on a download - trust me, I've done it. It has automatically loaded with several shortcuts, there's probably one on your desk top and in your startup folder. Just go hunting for them all with the 'find'.

 

[Savage Kitten]

my friend's hubby did this

he's a member of the porn freak club too!

he'd be browsing porm sites all night and then the next day his 11yr old daughter couldn't browse the net for all these freakin porn sites popping up. i'd have to go check his folders and hard drive and delete all the cookies and hidden lil porm leaches i could find so she'd be able to use it for a couple of days until he did it again. (i know what you are saying... net nanny net nanny net nanny.. but that was such a hassle.. they kept forgetting the password and locking themselves out! haha)

then something similiar happened to him. only, everytime he opened his browser that dial up would come up and automatically start dialing. he'd hurry up and log off the i-net before it could make connection. i went in and deleted everything romotely connected to the dial up program. it would be ok for that session but if he turned his computer off the next time he turned it on and got online it would start dialing again!

eventually, i cleared their hard drive completely and reinstalled their software. So far he hasn't had problems with that dial up again. While I was reinstalling I gave him I-explorer and well as netscape. That way he uses one browser for his porn and his daughter uses the other. No more naughty pop ups for her!

 

[Draco]

Juspar, my man.

No ponytail, that got cut of on my 30th birthday. (A while ago, I can tell you.)
The AV is much better...but the subject matter..I'm not so sure....(LOL..JK) Hows BC treating you, Guy?

OK, I dont know a lot about MSN, but if its anything like ICQ, it creates a log as well. The best way to fix it is to download System Mechanic, it has a feature for removing "Junk Files". it removes all the logs from ICQ so i'm figuring it will work on MSN logs as well.

www***lo.com/sm/index.htm

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Re: Juspar, my man.

No ponytail, that got cut of on my 30th birthday. (A while ago, I can tell you.)
The AV is much better...but the subject matter..I'm not so sure....(LOL..JK) Hows BC treating you, Guy?

OK, I dont know a lot about MSN, but if its anything like ICQ, it creates a log as well. The best way to fix it is to download System Mechanic, it has a feature for removing "Junk Files". it removes all the logs from ICQ so i'm figuring it will work on MSN logs as well.

www***lo.com/sm/index.htm

BC rocks - I got Lei'd at a bachelorette part last night. NT sucks - this isn't likely to help. But I'll give it a shot, thanks.

 

[BlkPnthr]

Geek used to be a four letter word.....now it's a six figure income.

 

[Draco]

Geek used to be a four letter word.....now it's a six figure income.

Thats It Panther, install another desk in you're workshop, I'm coming to work for you. I sure as eggs dont make SIX figures PA.

Then we can continue the AMD/Intel fight..."My CPU's faster than Your CPU etc...LOL

 

[BlkPnthr]

ROFLMAO! You sure you wanna live in Canada? That's cool with me, but the time spent debating that obviously my pc is better than yours gets docked from your pay

 

[Draco]

ROFLMAO! You sure you wanna live in Canada? That's cool with me, but the time spent debating that obviously my pc is better than yours gets docked from your pay

Canada's gotta be a hell of a lot closer to Minnesota then New Zealand is. I'm sure SweetCherry would approve of me being just across the border.

PS My T-bird craps all over your P4: I know what the 'P' stands for...PATHETIC.....

 

[BlkPnthr]

Canada's gotta be a hell of a lot closer to Minnesota then New Zealand is. I'm sure SweetCherry would approve of me being just across the border.

PS My T-bird craps all over your P4: I know what the 'P' stands for...PATHETIC.....

LOL Let's just say your T-bird craps Btw......T stands for troublesome

 

[SweetCherry]

LOL Let's just say your T-bird craps Btw......T stands for troublesome

Aw hell, just hire him already. I don't care where in Canada you live. I'm willing to walk that far. I'm DYING to get some lovin'.

Draco, you do realize Canada's colder then Miinnesota, right? Pack the long johns, babe. Tho I promise to warm you up.

 

[Draco]

SweetNess, you need to turn that Minnesota charm onto the Panther...I dont care how cold it gets there...some hot lovin will keep me warmed up...

 

[BlkPnthr]

LOL @ you two...... No comeback on the pc thing? *EG*

 

[Draco]

No comeback on the pc thing? *EG*

You asked for this....I know what the '4' in 'P4' stands for...its the amount of times You have to return it to Intel to get it working properly...Muhahahahahaha

 

[BlkPnthr]

Hahahahaha....took you long enough geez Gonna have to take the quick out of quick witted for you That's ok though....after doing some research on AMD, I found out what it really means.....Almost Made the Dumppile

 

[sabbathstorm]

The problem may also be related to spyware. If you've been unlucky enough to end up with Gator or Comet Cursor, you know what I'm talking about. I recently cleaned up a computer that had over 80 spyware components loaded on it with several processes running in the background without their knowledge. You might want to consider looking into a spyware detector like ad-aware from lavasoft. It's available as a free download from the tucows site and is extremely reliable.

 

[SpectralDragoon]

A 1.3 or 1.4 Athlon wipes up a P4 1.7

Hehehe

And MSN doesn't create log files like ICQ does, good thing too!.

I use MSN at work too.

 

[BlkPnthr]

Ummm SPectral, Drac and I both in our professional opinions, agreed that they are fairly closely matched.....Intel is just one step up is all! LOL Muahahahahaha

 

[SpectralDragoon]

Hahaha, uh huh.

s'alright, I'd still take my AMD over an Intel.

And thats allllll that matters!!

(I hope)

 

[BlkPnthr]

LOL.....lemme see if I can dig up this piece on computer shopping from ym HD....I know it's in here somewhere *Scratches his head*

 

[chumley]

Thanks to everyone who responded. Draco's idea about running msconfig worked. Thanks, Draco. Would you happen to know how to remove it from the list in that startup box?

Chumley.

P.S. this message board gets a frikkin' s%$tload of posts. I don't think I've ever seen a board get so many so fast.

 

[Draco]

You're most welcome Chum...
OK, to get rid of the start up box bit, either I can show you the reg hack to do it..or go back a page and see my earlier post to Juspar about System Mechanic, it has a Windows Start Up Editor, you just select then delete. Much easier...