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| Thread ID: 38525 | 2003-10-10 00:49:00 | I can't remove MP3Search | Steve Dyer (4708) | Press F1 |
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| 181865 | 2003-10-10 00:49:00 | Good Afternoon, When I am off-line my PC tries to connect every 5 minutes. I ran McAfee virus check and it found a program called MP3Search located at c:\_RESTORE\TEMP\A0041075.CPY. I have tried to delete it but it says it is write-protected and the file cannot be deleted. There are two other file that can be deleted but re-appear at a later date. They are Free-Scratch-Cards at c:\WINDOWS\Application Data\quizbt0.dll and MP3Search at c:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\mp3.exe . I did have Kazaar loaded for a short time but uninstall it as by connection is too slow to down load MP3's. I would appreciate some assistance in removing this unwanted program. I have since installed Zone alone and Spybot from your Cd. I suspect this is the cause of the annoying connection pop up. Is that likely? Thanks Steve Dyer |
Steve Dyer (4708) | ||
| 181866 | 2003-10-10 00:57:00 | I had a problem once where spybot wouldn't delete this registry path which was a spyware. I downloaded a copy of registry cleaner at www.download.com Ticked it and then chose delete to delete that .dll.IT worked.! |
yingxuan (3330) | ||
| 181867 | 2003-10-10 00:57:00 | I would not expect zone alarm or spybot to cause popups one option might be to see what you have in the start up folder? other thing is to click on "Start" , "run", type "msconfig" this program will let you see what is set up to run on system start and it will let you turn off any thing. have a play and get back to us. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 181868 | 2003-10-10 01:03:00 | if you reboot in safe mode then you will be able to delete these nasties, i dont think zonealarm or spybot will be offending, but spybot should have got rid of them. Have you ran the update on spybot?? | Budda (2736) | ||
| 181869 | 2003-10-10 01:14:00 | Thanx, I will try that. | Steve Dyer (4708) | ||
| 181870 | 2003-10-10 01:38:00 | Turn off your restore and then utilize your cleaners. restart PC and run again. Turn on your restore. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 181871 | 2003-10-12 20:43:00 | Thank you all for the help. I persisted and played around until and found the problem. It was caused by McAfee Online Anti-virus. It continues to check for updates even when the Automatic Updates in the security center are switched off. It is not even possible to change the settings in task manager. So I changed my dial-up settings to Never Dial a Connection and that worked! I suspect the program is busy at work behind the scenes though as when I run scan disc with McAfee running it won't do a complete scan as eventually (after 10 attempts) gives an error saying another program is accessing the hard drive. Taking the McAfee MCUpdate.exe out of the start-up in msconfig did not work as it just re-appeared the next time the PC was started. |
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