hijacked

[Rick]

have been hijacked and tried to remove this SOB but with
no success. I'm not sure if I deleted something or the
hijacker changed something as my desktop consists of
icons with the name of the program and next to each name
is an extention ".lnk" . The same for every program in
the program list in the "start, programs" process. Can
not run any program except internet explorer.
Even in safe mode, the icons and programs have the .lnk
extention next to them.
Have I deleted some file and if so, which file? Running
XPpro.
Thanx in advance
Rick

 

[Jose Francisco]

Greetings Rick,

Try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

 

[Guest]

Thanx Jose.
I have these programs on the system and was in the
process of trying to erradicate this SOB of a hijacker
when the .lnk issue came up. Can not run these programs
or any other program while the .lnk extention is there.
Windows comes up with the message "Windows can not open
this file etc, etc."
Downloaded new copies of these programs but can not
install or run. I have to try to fix this ".lnk" problem
first so that I can run these "fix" programs or any other
program. I feel that a system file has been deleted or
missing.
Regards
Rick