Guys,
As you may have known from reading my posts, I had a spyware attack yesterday when going to a site that I help regulate thatwas downgraded with annoying pop-up ads. (Our accounting department made a mistake, and downgraded our server when we had paid the bill 3 days before it was due.) You may recall that I was able to clean my system with Adware and Spybot S & D. All except for one-thing, an annoying program called TV Media that appears to be the culprit with regards to my Internet connection at start up. How do I think this is the culprit? I searched the C drive and had two folders marked TV Media, clicked on properties, and they were created September 8th, around noon (about the time I went to that site.) TV MEDIA is in my Add/Remove programs list, I go to uninstall it and my dial-up internet kicks in!
So I figure, just go run MSCONFIG and get it out by unchecking it right? Well...no, I unchecked the damn thing, but when I restarted the computer, another TV Media entry is in its place. (In other words, there is something in the program that just creates multiple entries of this thing, whenever you run MS CONFIG.) The program is no longer in my Add/Remove programs list, but I still have this autodial thingy that won't go away.
I'll tell you what happend, when this spyware came on my system, (it's all gone now except for this autodialer from something called TV Media) there was something that was auto-installing in my sys tray. I knew that it was something that I didn't want, so I just exited out, spent 6 hours with the Adware and Spyware removal, which did a good job. If all I have left is this autodialer that won't turn off or uninstall itself, I think I am pretty fortunate.
I just hope that this thing doesn't interfere with my DSL. I don't think it will because when I go to tools, and Internet Options, and selected, "Never Dial A Connection" the autodialer was bi-passed. (of course, I obviously couldn't open IE because I couldn't connect to the Internet because the setting was changed.) I think, as this is a dial-up issue, DSL should by-pass it.
Jack
As you may have known from reading my posts, I had a spyware attack yesterday when going to a site that I help regulate thatwas downgraded with annoying pop-up ads. (Our accounting department made a mistake, and downgraded our server when we had paid the bill 3 days before it was due.) You may recall that I was able to clean my system with Adware and Spybot S & D. All except for one-thing, an annoying program called TV Media that appears to be the culprit with regards to my Internet connection at start up. How do I think this is the culprit? I searched the C drive and had two folders marked TV Media, clicked on properties, and they were created September 8th, around noon (about the time I went to that site.) TV MEDIA is in my Add/Remove programs list, I go to uninstall it and my dial-up internet kicks in!
So I figure, just go run MSCONFIG and get it out by unchecking it right? Well...no, I unchecked the damn thing, but when I restarted the computer, another TV Media entry is in its place. (In other words, there is something in the program that just creates multiple entries of this thing, whenever you run MS CONFIG.) The program is no longer in my Add/Remove programs list, but I still have this autodial thingy that won't go away.
I'll tell you what happend, when this spyware came on my system, (it's all gone now except for this autodialer from something called TV Media) there was something that was auto-installing in my sys tray. I knew that it was something that I didn't want, so I just exited out, spent 6 hours with the Adware and Spyware removal, which did a good job. If all I have left is this autodialer that won't turn off or uninstall itself, I think I am pretty fortunate.
I just hope that this thing doesn't interfere with my DSL. I don't think it will because when I go to tools, and Internet Options, and selected, "Never Dial A Connection" the autodialer was bi-passed. (of course, I obviously couldn't open IE because I couldn't connect to the Internet because the setting was changed.) I think, as this is a dial-up issue, DSL should by-pass it.
Jack
