Can't remove porn popup mechanism!

[Andco]

Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this post, but I'm at a loss (I
posted this to windowsxp.general, but no solutions there).

My sister-in-law's son went to some Spanish porn site and now she keeps
getting porn popups on her WinXP Home PC. I found the offending line using
MSCONFIG and unchecked it:

@chicasx_ww\@chicasx_ww[1].exe-t

I've never seen anything like this (what's with the @ symbols in this
context?) and I don't know how to permanently get rid of it! There's nothing
in Add/Remove Programs; I searched the disk (with the view set at show all
files) and couldn't find the exe; searched the registry for "chicasx" and
found nothing; Googled chicasx and got thousands of references to porn sites
but nothing to remove this; ran updated Norton AV and Ad-aware but neither
sees it as a virus nor spyware.

Anybody seen this before and know how to remove this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

 

[Russell]

-----Original Message-----
Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this post, but I'm at a loss (I
posted this to windowsxp.general, but no solutions there).

My sister-in-law's son went to some Spanish porn site and now she keeps
getting porn popups on her WinXP Home PC. I found the offending line using
MSCONFIG and unchecked it:

@chicasx_ww\@chicasx_ww[1].exe-t

I've never seen anything like this (what's with the @ symbols in this
context?) and I don't know how to permanently get rid of it! There's nothing
in Add/Remove Programs; I searched the disk (with the view set at show all
files) and couldn't find the exe; searched the registry for "chicasx" and
found nothing; Googled chicasx and got thousands of references to porn sites
but nothing to remove this; ran updated Norton AV and Ad- aware but neither
sees it as a virus nor spyware.

Anybody seen this before and know how to remove this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance!


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