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[soft2soft]

There is a good idea, and it will ever be worth a steamy given all those people are suffering through it.

The first technique you posted seemed to work for me--I hope. There's still a chance I missed something and that I'll howl in aggravation sometime in the next day or so. However, I've been free for about 2 1/2 hours now.

The key is finding and nuking ALL of the involved .dll .dat and .exe files. And there can be a LOT of them. My computer started giving me the "Home Search" web page on 6/13. I found files for it dated all the way back to mid-May, however.

Here's what I've noticed about the various files:

.dll files: 5 string random characters, 70KB size (I deleted about 8 of these from my windows and system directories)

.dat files: also random strings, vary more in size. Many of mine were either 1k or 12k. Mostly 5 letters. I deleted about 10 of these.

.exe files: a little more variety since these can be 4 or 5 letters and sometimes include a 32. I deleted about 12 of these from my folders. *All were 9k in size*

During the problem period, I noticed that every time I re-booted the hijacker's "Network Security Service" pointed to a different random .exe.

I think that if you don't get EVERY .dat, .dll, and .exe, it comes back right away.

Regards
Software Master
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Okay, this is the second "smart spam" attempt. Banned this time.
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