Active X Control?

[Guest]

While I was away on business, my husband has inadvertently downloaded a malicious program which has hijacked IE to its search website, even though we have repeatedly changed the home page in preferences. I ran Norton SystemWorks which identified the file as an active X control (and found no virus infection). I attempted to remove it with Norton, but since the application starts on the boot and that file is always in use, I cannot remove it. Is there any method I, an intermediate level user, can employ to rem this file out of the boot registry? I have never gone into the registry before and feel rather intimidated by the prospect. Or should I simply take my computer to the shop and pay them to do it? BTW, the suspect application file is windec32.dll and it takes you to a website called "I-lookup."

 

[Dave Patrick]

You might give this a try.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

While I was away on business, my husband has inadvertently downloaded a

malicious program which has hijacked IE to its search website, even though
we have repeatedly changed the home page in preferences. I ran Norton
SystemWorks which identified the file as an active X control (and found no
virus infection). I attempted to remove it with Norton, but since the
application starts on the boot and that file is always in use, I cannot
remove it. Is there any method I, an intermediate level user, can employ to
rem this file out of the boot registry? I have never gone into the registry
before and feel rather intimidated by the prospect. Or should I simply take
my computer to the shop and pay them to do it? BTW, the suspect application
file is windec32.dll and it takes you to a website called "I-lookup."

 

[Guest]

I forgot to add that the process does not show on the task manager and I cannot recognize it on the processes tab.

 

[bmellander]

Thanks to all who wrote to suggest help or forwarded
software updates (mine were current at the time of this
incident). I have corrected the problem, I hope, and put
the fear of the Lord in my husband that a firewall is only
as good as the operator at the keyboard.