Hello, Toomas,
Your suggestions were excellent! There is definitely progress (although I'm
not out of the woods yet).
Apparently, one of the malware programs deleted my System Restore points.
I've never seen anything like this before! I restored it to the only Restore
point that I had - the day in which the problems began. I hoped that the
time was before my problems started. However, that restore caused all of the
original problems to return. Since I *have* made progress removing some
malware since then, I undid the Restore.
I ran System File Checker, as you suggested, and my Hebrew was restored!
Thank you very much, Toomas!
Apparently, the only issues remaining are frequent large popups and the
start page hijacking. I'll delete and put back the Google toolbar, and I
hope that will eliminate the popups.
--> Toomas, if I delete IE and re-install it, could that eliminate the start
page hijacking? <--
David Grossman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toomas Piibe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Hijacked browser, continued.
> BCC directly to David
>
> Seems that You allowed HijackThis delete some
> needed parts of OS. HT detects all software
> started at bootup and Browser Helper Objects.
> Support for Hebrew is not malware but is
> listed by HT.
>
> Do System Restore for date before You run it
> and try again with Spybot. Then run system file
> checker (Start -> Run -> sfc /scannow)
>
>
> Toomas
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Grossman" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> > Hello, Toomas,
> > I ran Spybot and HijackThis in safe mode, as you recommended. HijackThis
> > found a lot of problems and I deleted many of them.
> > However, I probably missed some, since I still have problems:
> > 1. I still get an endless delay in opening IE6, followed by a large menu
> > screen (the Windows logo next to "Home Search")
> > 2. The large menu screen tries (endlessly!) to download picture
> > http://searchxp.com/pop/img/b1.gif
> > 3. IE6 sometimes locks up when starting
> > 4. MS Config does not work right any more. It opens and closes before I
can
> > click on any of the tabs
> > 5. I lost my Hebrew foreign language support in Word and IE6
> > 6. IE6 is now more fussy about addresses. It will not work at all (it
just
> > sits and waits) if I type geocities.com instead of
http://www.geocities.com
> > Should I try something else before just giving up and re-loading Windows
XP?
> >
> >> From: "Toomas Piibe" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Run Spybot and HijackThis in safe mode.
> >
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> >
>
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