PA Bear,
Spybot found two things missed by the other programs. 1) A DyFuCA registry
entry which was trying to install a file that was to be downloaded. The
download had been stopped by my firewall at some point. 2) A DSO exploit of
questionable relevance but I manually corrected the registry keys to a
dword=3 for zone 0 in several keys.
Thanks for the long list of suggestions. I had been running AdAware, but to
be fair I had not upgraded to the SE version. At Spybot's suggestion I also
got rid of the eBay toolbar for privacy concerns.
It is either an odd coincidence or just bad luck that problems only
developed after the SP2 upgrade.
Thanks again,
Kevin
PA Bear wrote:
| Check your system for "hijackware":
|
| Help with Hijackware
|
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
|
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
|
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
|
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.htm
|
| CoolWebSearch Chronicles
|
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
|
| Run these tools in the following order with nothing else running in
| background:
|
| 1. CWShredder (fix all found)
|
| 2. Ad-Aware (fix all found)
|
| 3. Spybot (RTFM but generally fix everything in red)
|
<SNIP>
| kahout wrote:
|| I am experiencing a complete hang of XP when I shut down IE. This
|| lasts for about 40 seconds; afterwards everything returns to normal.
|| I installed XP SP2 with the network install file. That is when this
|| developed.
||
|| I am also experiencing "not responding" conditions of IE more
|| frequently. It used to be an occasional annoyance with IE; now it's
|| frequent but not consistent.
||
|| Anyone else experiencing this or have a solution?
||
|| Kevin