Spyware Update

I mentioned earlier my parent's spyware problem. Well... it turns out Kernel32.dll is pretty critical to running windows ME. Don't mess with it. I nearly killed my Mom's computer by trying to trade it out with another version I downloaded. Good thing I made a backup!

Anyways, I eventually found out that several files that were supposed to have been deleted weren't really. After killing them in safe mode, and upping the security settings on internet explorer, it hasn't (so far) been reinfected. However, sometimes when you open IE, a second windows pops up and tries to run a script (presumably to redownload all the spyware again). I don't know what's causing that, but as long as it isn't downloading the spyware, I really don't care.

So far, so good....

Posted by Blog Jones at August 27, 2004 11:47 AM | Category: Technology