Suspicious instances of NOTEPAD.EXE running. Hmmm.

Hi

I have been having a hellish couple of days attempting to clean my computer of all the (expletive deleted) that my brother has succeeded in installing (adware, spyware, malware...) but I am encountering a recurring problem: Norton Antivirus refuses to run Autoprotect and quits if I try to run a scan or LiveUpdate. Also, something is triggering the execution of NOTEPAD.EXE constantly, but it only shows up in the Process window, not as a notepad window. Although I have succeeded in briefly halting this irritating state of events, it soon reverts to the old way. I ran a full scan in NAV when I got it running - it came up clean. But this morning, the problem has returned

I have run AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy and HijackThis! to look for any suspicious stuff, deleted a load and it still won't fix it

HELP ME! Please!

PA
Fri Feb 27 03:03:04 CST 2004

Download and run CWShredder (v1.51.1 *only*):

http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

Then update NAV, Ad-Aware & Spybot and scan with each, in turn, with no
other windows open.
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"QmunkE" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E32886E5-1DE0-412C-9E5D-986A3B5BA000@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have been having a hellish couple of days attempting to clean my
computer of all the (expletive deleted) that my brother has succeeded in
installing (adware, spyware, malware...) but I am encountering a recurring
problem: Norton Antivirus refuses to run Autoprotect and quits if I try to
run a scan or LiveUpdate. Also, something is triggering the execution of
NOTEPAD.EXE constantly, but it only shows up in the Process window, not as a
notepad window. Although I have succeeded in briefly halting this irritating
state of events, it soon reverts to the old way. I ran a full scan in NAV
when I got it running - it came up clean. But this morning, the problem has
returned.
>
> I have run AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy and HijackThis! to look for
any suspicious stuff, deleted a load and it still won't fix it.
>
> HELP ME! Please!

anonymous
Fri Feb 27 03:51:07 CST 2004

Okay, problem partially solved. CWShredder refuses to update from v. 1.5.1.0, but I have used KazaaBGone and it cleaned a bunch of stuff off. CWShredder reported clean, and NAV is now starting normally. However I now get a couple of Runtime error messages at startup.

Mike
Fri Feb 27 05:42:42 CST 2004

QmunkE,
Most likely you still have some leftovers ........
Since you mentioned you had Ad-Aware and SpyBot,
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/
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"QmunkE" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9C05C161-2017-42E9-9E10-B4A5F9DC2E36@microsoft.com...
> Okay, problem partially solved. CWShredder refuses to update from v.
1.5.1.0, but I have used KazaaBGone and it cleaned a bunch of stuff off.
CWShredder reported clean, and NAV is now starting normally. However I now
get a couple of Runtime error messages at startup.