Well, yeah, they are empty. But they actually have Chinese letters next to
them. Beats me what they are. I do have the Cryptographic service running.
I was wondering, if I have these certificates from Claria, then could their
spyware have been installed automatically, even though I have tight
restrictions on ActiveX?
--
ICQ#
| Diggy;
| Do they look like this:
|
|
| k
| ?????
| Right below Trusted People???
| And they're Empty??
|
| I wouldn't worry about them. I have them too.
| Check back and look at the certificates once in a while, if you have the
| Cryptographic Service running.
|
| [Provides three management services: Catalog Database Service,
| which confirms the signatures of Windows files; Protected Root Service,
which
| adds and removes Trusted Root Certification Authority certificates from
this
| computer; and Key Service, which helps enroll this computer for
certificates. If
| this service is stopped, these management services will not function
properly.]
| --
| Hope this helps. Let us know.
| Wes
|
| In | Diggy <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
| > Well I installed the certificates console as suggested in this thread
| > somewhere up there, and I looked through all the certificates. I did
see a
| > few that seemed to my very untrained eyes to be suspicious. I mean,
there
| > were a couple that looked like they were named in Polish or Russian, so
I
| > deleted these. Then I have three folders, not actual certificates, that
| > have Chinese symbols as names. I wanted to delete these strange, empty
| > folders also, but could not see a way. (I do surf the Korean internet,
but
| > even Korean companies almost always use English for computer stuff.) I
| > think those Chinese things are definitely something pernicious.
| >
| > --
| > ICQ#
| > | > >
| > > > -----Original Message-----
| > > > I have an issue concerning registry settings for trusted
| > > certificates in my XP Home Edition PC. My spyware/malware
| > > utility Pest Patrol reports that Claria Corporation has
| > > installed a trusted certififcate in my registry. Pest
| > > Patrol is able to temporarily remove this annoyance,
| > > however it seems to reinstall itself after a few browses
| > > on the internet. SpyBot S and D, AdAware 6.0 and Mcafee
| > > VirusScan do not report this adware annoyance since it is
| > > registered in the PC as a trusted certificate. When the
| > > adware is active it affects the browser web pages with a
| > > 404 Server cannot be found error or a page that doesnt
| > > load properly, incomplete or not at all. I also get an
| > > error message stating that my system clock setting is
| > > incorrect and needs to changed when trying to login from
| > > MSN Explorer. I try synchronizing the clock and that
| > > doesnt help. When I clean the Claria adware with Pest
| > > Patrol everything works fine again until the adware
| > > updates or reinstalls itself. I am not able to view this
| > > trusted certificate in IE 6, however I have noticed some
| > > suspicious registry settings that have meaningless
| > > symbols under the
| > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/SYSTEM CERTIFICATES.
| > > How can I refresh the system certificates without getting
| > > this adware certificate back in? I am not comfortable
| > > with editing this part of the registry and also not
| > > comfortable with an adware companie's certificate in my
| > > PC. Please advise. Thanks.
| > > > .
| > > > Claria is the new name for a old parasite "GATOR" you
| > > might have installed this as "bundled" software which
| > > explains the Certificate
| > >
| > > go to
www.spywareinfo.com and download hijackthis scan
| > > your system and post the results in their forum their
| > > advise will be top notch
| > > Have a good new year
|
