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Title: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: gery350 on February 01, 2006, 07:12:20 PM calling all cars!!
man i cant get rid of that freakin thing! i've deleted program, ive done file searches and found hidded files and deleted them but cant get rid of it. any help..............PLEASE! Title: Re: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: geektrx on February 01, 2006, 07:18:30 PM fix the registry using regedit command in the run box
use the msconfig command in the run box to disable it then manually delete the files through command prompt if all else fails back up your filend wipe the partition Title: Re: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: Ida_Mann on February 01, 2006, 07:21:36 PM and do all of the above in Safe Mode,,,,,or else it might come back.
Id@ Title: Re: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: jocolo on February 02, 2006, 12:02:51 AM Start/ programs/accesories/system tools/sytem restore and go back a week or so, or find a proram called Hijack this , and delete it
Title: Re: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: qt314nfla on February 02, 2006, 12:06:39 AM I don't know the required info about computers to help you. I do know that Idaman, Thrasher, and Muddfreak are experts in this field and that computers are their career. Hope this helps.
Title: Re: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: Ida_Mann on February 02, 2006, 07:32:18 AM Expert? wow, didn't know that ;-)
check is in the mail. Id@ Title: Re: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: MuddFreak77 on February 02, 2006, 10:29:00 PM I repeat I'm an expert at nothing!!!! ;) ;)
You want to do is first disable system restore. After some research, I found out this is Spyware/Adware, go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en) and download the anti-spyware program. Install it and apply all of the updates, boot system into safe mode as Ida said, and then run the program. Freakk Title: Re: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: MachineDog on February 02, 2006, 11:45:49 PM Sounds like time for a reformat! :) *brushes off the ole' WinXP disk*
Title: Re: help getting rid of winfixer! Post by: geektrx on February 03, 2006, 01:33:24 AM he won't need to reformat as long as he fixes the registry
if he doesn't know what he's doing that he will need to wipe the drive and partition it and reinstall windows if you need help wiping the drive clean make usre you use fdisk and make sure to erase sector 1 volume 1 that way the hard drive will only read 00000000 until you install a new OS |