Recent content by cwyman

Well, working with someone over the phone who is non-technical is very difficult and we were not able to make any headway on her registration problem so I told her to call a local tech or contact the store where she purchased the upgrade. I hate doing that, but I feel that OS installation...

Supposedly selecting the phone option is not available.

Long time no see guys!! I have a customer that upgraded her computer in one of our office and it's at the screen where it wants her to register with Microsoft and her options are yes or no. If she says yes she needs proxy information (we are blocking the microsoft site until February to allow...

Well, I have bad news. I've had to tell the customer to call a local technician. It's very hard to troubleshoot over the phone when you're several thousand miles away and unable to do a remote assistance. I was able to run a Spybot S&D and found out that she had DyFuCa and CoolWWWShredder...

Thanks diogenes10. I will do my best to work on your suggestions and post here and everywhere if it works. I should know the answer in the next 24-48hours depending on whether or not I can get a hold of my customer.

BTW crow053.... You are my hero. I'm the only one in my department that can half-way read those hijack logs so trying to explaing to 10 other people for support is a bear and you just saved my countless hours of training and 2ndary support!!! You get a kudos!!

You can run hijack this and then cut and paste your log into this great website that will analyze your hijack log and tell you what is good, bad, and ugly!! http://hijackthis.de/index.php - sorry, my html is very rusty so you'll have to cut and paste this web site. Give that a try and see what...

I've been reading castlecops and bleeping and posted at both sites but haven't gotten a response from either and it's just killing me!! I don't mind being patient, but I feel like I'm in limbo. I've tried some of what yellowhammer has suggested, but unfortunately some of the sypmtoms are not...

Sounds like you've got a BHO (Browser Helper Object) that's causing some problems. Another really great tool is the Toolbarcop which you can download from www.majorgeeks.com under the Spyware Tools. This will show you all of your BHOs (some are good and some are bad) You will probably find...

I have a computer that has the Umonitor spyware among other. I was searching CastleCops forum and it appears to be a nasty removal process, but I trust my buddies at tek-tips so here I am. Here's the hijack log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 9:22:26 AM, on 1/4/2005 Platform...

I have a customer that appears to be deeply infected with lord knows what. I know that they are spyware and not actual viruses because they have black ice, and AVSW (I think it's NAV). Can I post my hijack this among others? I know that the user is getting an error on something called...

Unfortunately one of the web based apps doesn't run on Firefox so we can't test that theory, but I will have him check to see if he can log into his bank through Firefox. I found out that he has Norton Internet Security and Norton System works and he reportedly had trouble with these two...

Hello, I have user with Windows 2000 and IE6 and he can't access any secure web-sites. Now in XP there's a couple of things you can do like re-registering some IE dlls and there's a registry fix that can sometimes do the trick, but I haven't been able to figure out this customer's dilema. I'm...

Wanted to let you all know what happened. The user's profile was corrupted so we created a new profile and moved over his documents and then deleted his old profile and he's now able to open his registry editor. Thanks for all your help fellow techies :o)

I suspected possible malware and I also suspected that perhaps his user account has been corrupted. I'm going to give this user a call and see if he can access the registry through another admin acct and if he can't then I definitely suspect malware. I guess great minds DO think alike :o)