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I believe that a customers computer has had some sort of spyware introduced into it. I have used all of the spyware removal tools, gone through the registry etc. and have everything clean with one exception. I believe that the axd.dll has been replaced with a bogus copy. When booting, I have enabled verbose status and watch it sit on that dll file for about a minute alone. There is another file next to it labeled axd.cpy.dll. The file date on the new one is the 12th of this month which is about when the customers problems began. I have tried bringing the notebook up in safe mode, safe mode command prompt etc. and the file is always in use. I cannot get rid of it and am not clear on what it does. It is not listed anywhere except in development groups on Microsoft. How did this file get there, is it necessary and how can I get rid of it. Also, the spyware tools removed about 75 entries on the computer and I have uninstalled at least 10 programs. I have the unit completely clean I believe and the only symptom left is that every once in a while Internet Explorer autolaunches an ad. I put a blocker on and when it ran it game me a rundll error on the axd.cpy.dll. Any ideas?
 
Download System Mechanic 30 day trial version (www.iolo.com) and run
the various cleanup utilities and fixes. The "axd.cpy.dll" file is an unknown
entity.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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|I believe that a customers computer has had some sort of spyware introduced into it. I have used all of the
spyware removal tools, gone through the registry etc. and have everything clean with one exception. I believe
that the axd.dll has been replaced with a bogus copy. When booting, I have enabled verbose status and watch
it sit on that dll file for about a minute alone. There is another file next to it labeled axd.cpy.dll. The
file date on the new one is the 12th of this month which is about when the customers problems began. I have
tried bringing the notebook up in safe mode, safe mode command prompt etc. and the file is always in use. I
cannot get rid of it and am not clear on what it does. It is not listed anywhere except in development groups
on Microsoft. How did this file get there, is it necessary and how can I get rid of it. Also, the spyware
tools removed about 75 entries on the computer and I have uninstalled at least 10 programs. I have the unit
completely clean I believe and the only symptom left is that every once in a while Internet Explorer
autolaunches an ad. I put a blocker on and when it ran it game me a rundll error on the axd.cpy.dll. Any
ideas?
 
Thanks and tried it, but no success in removing it. I have stopped every single service and cannot get the process holding it released. It is the first item to attempt to load when the personal profile settings start. I have searched the registry for it and not found it. It has to be being called from somewhere... but it has me baffled. I managed to get the axd.cpy.dll renamed and upon restarting... a new one reappeared. Any other ideas would be appreciated.

----- Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote: ----

Download System Mechanic 30 day trial version (www.iolo.com) and ru
the various cleanup utilities and fixes. The "axd.cpy.dll" file is an unknow
entity

--
Carey Frisc
Microsoft MV
Windows XP - Shell/Use

Be Smart! Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


|I believe that a customers computer has had some sort of spyware introduced into it. I have used all of the
spyware removal tools, gone through the registry etc. and have everything clean with one exception. I believe
that the axd.dll has been replaced with a bogus copy. When booting, I have enabled verbose status and watch
it sit on that dll file for about a minute alone. There is another file next to it labeled axd.cpy.dll. The
file date on the new one is the 12th of this month which is about when the customers problems began. I have
tried bringing the notebook up in safe mode, safe mode command prompt etc. and the file is always in use. I
cannot get rid of it and am not clear on what it does. It is not listed anywhere except in development groups
on Microsoft. How did this file get there, is it necessary and how can I get rid of it. Also, the spyware
tools removed about 75 entries on the computer and I have uninstalled at least 10 programs. I have the unit
completely clean I believe and the only symptom left is that every once in a while Internet Explorer
autolaunches an ad. I put a blocker on and when it ran it game me a rundll error on the axd.cpy.dll. Any
ideas?
 
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