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rridgely,

 

Do not play with hijack this without proper instruction.

 

There was something "improper" about my instructions, or simply something simply different than the choice you may have made in the circumstances? Come on now.

 

jlowell

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sweetaschocolate,

 

Sounds like it might be a start-up item to me, but I could be wrong. Either that or it's God punishing you for your sins.

 

Download, install and run HijackThis.exe

 

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/files/HijackThis.exe

 

go to Config, the Miscellaneous Tools, and locate Generate Startup List log, run it, and paste a copy of the log file provided here:

 

http://hijackthis.de/index.php?langselect=english

 

An excellent analysis will be offered that will help you determine whether your problem concerns a start-up process. Before acting on anything, however, I'd let one of the experts at spywarewarrior.com offers his or her assessment of the situation also.

 

Good luck!

 

jlowell

[Missing dlls]

rridgely & DjLizard,

 

Thanks for the replies. For a while there, I thought it was God punishing me for my sins.

 

DjLizard, I think that rridgely has given me the hint for the self-help approach I'd hoped for in this case, to wit:

 

(to find this under issues select them in fix and it will give you a description about where they came from. you can hit the arrow incons and scroll through without actually changing anything yet.)

 

I don't think I'll need to bother the forum with a list of miscreants to analyse. Thanks for the offer, however, and if I'm wrong and foul-up my box, I'll just blame the two of you and sue.

 

jlowell

[Missing dlls]

I've recently installed the trial version of Kaspersky Personal Security Suite. Running CCleaner's "issues" capability, listed are a number of missing dlls related to Kaspersky in one way or another. I thought missing dlls were the product of uninstallation. But in this case, I'm seeing them in connection with this newly installed program! I'd like to know just what the significance - or lack of significance - these registry items may have.

 

jlowell

 

Follow-Up Edit, July 1, 2005

 

Sixty-eight views of this question and no replies? I'm surprized. I can't imagine that I've stumped people as competent as those who created this fine file and registry cleaner.

[Popup, Schmopup]

Many thanks for the suggestions.

 

jlowell

[Popup, Schmopup]

I'm looking for a quality, very low resource using popup blocker for IE 5.5. Suggestions, please.

 

jlowell

[Kaspersky, Kashmersky]

OK, I'm taking a look at the Kaspersky Personal Security Suite containing, inter alia, anti-virus, spam, firewall and spyware protection. I'd appreciate having comments about this suite, its components and its effectiveness.

 

jlowell

[CCleaner is good but]

I'd have to agree with the objections made here concerning System Mechanic. I was glad that I had a clean clone available on another box to restore the partition it damaged when I tried the evaluation version. I've not had any difficulty whatsoever in that way with CCleaner.

 

jlowell

[Wham, Bam Thank You Spam!]

Tarun,

 

LOL!

 

jlowell

[Wham, Bam Thank You Spam!]

Tarun & rridgely,

 

You guys must know each other, eh?

 

Seriously, rridgely, thanks for the help in depth. For most everything but business computing these days, I'm a Linux user. I do use Windows 2000 Pro for some personal requirements, however, never having been willing to shell out for the licenses for XP and other supporting software, and I say that not to ignite controversy here but rather to explain in a way how CCleaner has helped make what time I do spend with Windows more enjoyable. Using CCleaner, my Windows performance has been enhanced measurably. I've managed to deal with spyware reasonably effectively also, having been snooped on, hijacked, schmijacked, you name it. So why not take on spam next? I mean why me with the penis enlargement schpeels?

 

Again, thanks rridgely.

 

jlowell

[Wham, Bam Thank You Spam!]

OK, the local telephone company is my ADSL provider and used to have a relatively spam free e-mail service. But, alas, they fell into the grip of SBC about 18 months ago and Yahoo was forced on me against my will. Conservatively, even after having enabled the Yahoo spam filter and purchased Norton Internet Security which provides a decent anti-spam program, I'd guess 90-95% of the mail that reaches me here is pure junk, you know, penis enlargement or Cialis deals (I mean, really, at age 65 and with borderline high-blood pressure, I should be so lucky as to be a prospect for such meshugass ) or land opportunities in Uzbekistan. Might someone be so kind as to recommend a good, free e-mail service, one without ads or other cripling invasions of privacy? If there are good anti-spyware and other useful programs out there, certainly there ought to be an e-mail nirvana somewhere, eh?

 

jlowell

[OK, So I'm Impressed]

DJLizard,

 

Thanks for the reply and your recommendation of Spinrite for disk surface integrity checking. I'd been aware, of course of the availability of C:\> CHKDSK /F /R for file system checking.

 

Interesting that you'd suggest NTFS. I have here what is probably a fairly rare arrangement these days, Windows 2000 Pro with two FAT32 partitions, one for personal the other business computing. The installation program recommends that in case where more than one partition using Windows 2000 will be used on a disk that they both be FAT32. Don't ask me why, I just follow instructions.

 

Just curious, any suggestions as to a decent freeware defragger to replace Norton Speed Disk?

 

jlowell

[OK, So I'm Impressed]

Here is a post I made at SpywareWarrior.com regarding my new experience with CCleaner. It speaks for itself:

 

And I thought I had reasonably sound maintenance principles in place here!

 

After reading this thread, I thought I might give CCleaner a try. For many years on my Windows partitions I've depended on Symantec applications to keep me protected and running efficiently, that despite their penchant to purposely obsolete their software about ever two years forcing you to by licenses for replacements. Mainly I've used their SystemWorks suite, and, more recently, their Internet Security program to help with spam processing and the like. Their One Button Cleanup, a recent revision which more-or-less obsoletes the Fast and Safe Cleanup available through SystemWorks' Clean Sweep program, I've liked because it was conservative enough not to wreak havok every time I've run it. But this conservative? Oy! Running CCleaner, I moved off better than 37 megs of cruft and that after doing weekly maintenance! And the issues it identified, so many it's embarrasing. To make sure I was safe before installing CCleaner and employing it, I ran a clone of the partition involved to another box on the network. If I can't identify any problems within a short time, next time we come up for the bi-annual Symantec fleecing, I'll be looking for free replacements for everything offered by SystemWorks. Although I know there are good alternative defraggers/optimisers and anti-virus applications, I haven't been able to locate a good replacement for Norton Disk Doctor other than the standard Windows error checking utility. Anyone's help with a recommendation in this connection would be appreciated.

 

You live and learn.

 

jlowell

 

I'm pleased to have tried this very fine disk cleaner.

 

jlowell