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To: mr.mark who wrote (35211)7/16/2003 10:54:55 PM
From: Martin E. Frankel  Read Replies (1) of 110653
 
Mr. Mark and All,

Interesting problem. About two weeks ago my son was working on his laptop computer (WIN XP Pro) doing some work in Word for a college summer course he is taking when a pop-up opened and he accidently clicked "OK" instead of clicking the "X" to close the popup window. Suddenly he says it started to download a porno site (FXXX.com... letters deleted intentionally in this message)and placed an icon on his desktop. He tried unsuccessfully to delete it (the icon). I went to taskmanager -> processes and there is was... first in line... fxxx.com.exe! I deleted it and he was able to delete the icon. I then had him do an update on NAV and a thorough scan which resulted in nothing. I have a feeling that the .exe file may have made some registry changes so he hasn't turned off the computer yet. Any suggestions as to how to be sure it's removed or to remove it. I'm concerned about messing with the registry, but I'd bet the .exe files made some changes as it apparently starts-up automatically when he boots. He was able to delete the desktop icon before, but it kept coming back when he rebooted. If he uses an earlier restore point and hasn't installed anything since then, will he lose his data done after that point or does it just restore the registry to the earlier point? These slime buckets should rot!!

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Marty
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