Startup Program Editing

[Guest]

I became infected with a virus that resets IE home page. I've found the offending bits by troubleshooting with msconfig. I've removed the "image.dll" file that was creating the problem, but now I get an error message "image.dll" file not found when I reboot. I can correct this by running in Selective Startup mode, but I'd rather remove the line item from startup altogether. I've checked add/remove programs and can't find a program that is kicking off the dll

Can the startup list be edited with something other than msconfig?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Don;
There are several ways.
But one of these might be the easiest.
Try #3, it will find the reference in the Registry
and allow you to fix it.
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It is known as Scumware. Visit these sites. Download, install, run, update
and
run again; one or all. They are all good, FREE utilities.
The first site gives some recommendations.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php?cat=all#s-p
1) Spybot S & D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download
2) SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
3) HijackThis (some other stuff that may be of interest also)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html
4) AdAware
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/