XPost: alt.windows-xp
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:18:35 -0500, Nigel Ratburn
wrote:
>On 9/29/11 2:28 PM, Pfsszxt@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I need some serious help here with malware (?).
>> (an XP Pro machine with all updates)
>
>> I downloaded a piece of software billed as
>> a system cleaner (registry, files, and privacy
>> info) Comodo System Cleaner. It has been a nightmare
>> It seemed to work fine but having other problems, I decided
>> to remove it. I looked in Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs
>> and clicked to uninstall it, the screen went to the green screen
>> that appears just before desktop icons are set up. And nothing
>> was uninstalled. I tried to drag it to the recycle bin but it
>> wouldn't drag. Having a partitioned hard drive, I emptied one
>> partition and dragged it to that partition. It simply copied
>> itself and left a copy then in two partitions! I tried to format
>> the partition which contained only it, but format couldn't
>> run for that partition!
>
>> I did a registry search ans eliminated all references to it.
>> Then I could delete the software ( the findable parts).
>
>> But now, it shows up by name in MSConfig services and I can't
>> get rid of it. I "disable" it there but to apply I have to reboot
>> and it's back again! And I can't make MSConfig do a "normal"
>> startup. I check it as normal, have to reboot to apply, and I back
>> again to where I was!
>
>> Any helpful ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>You can always remove Windoze and use Linux, opr switch to the Mac.
>Windoze is the worst piece of malware I know of.
Well --- I've heard Linux advocates saying that for what 20 years?
I guess it's just slow to catch on!
I tried OS1 once too -- only to learn that there were no
video drivers, or printer drivers, or whatever ---
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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