How to kill two processes at the same time?

J

John Dalberg

I suspect I have an adware program running in my computer which I can't get
rid off. I ran adaware, Spybot & PestPatrol. They have cleaned my system of
all what they have found. However I still get second IE windows poping up
without browsing any sites.

I checked the task manager and found two .exe's that have randon names.
Everytime I kill any of them, it comes back to life instantly. My guess is
that they monitor each other while doing their crap work and if either one
dies, its sibling spawns it. So I guess I have to kill both of them at the
same time. Is there a way to do that or any way to stop them from running?
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

John Dalberg said:
I suspect I have an adware program running in my computer which I can't get
rid off. I ran adaware, Spybot & PestPatrol. They have cleaned my system of
all what they have found. However I still get second IE windows poping up
without browsing any sites.

I checked the task manager and found two .exe's that have randon names.
Everytime I kill any of them, it comes back to life instantly. My guess is
that they monitor each other while doing their crap work and if either one
dies, its sibling spawns it. So I guess I have to kill both of them at the
same time. Is there a way to do that or any way to stop them from running?

Run msconfig.exe (http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnldoth.htm) and
use it to suspend all suspect processes, then reboot your machine.
 
J

Jud

Find where the EXE files are, reboot into safe mode (F8 when the white bar
appears) , they wont be running , delete the folders containing them, and
then edit the
registry key
HKLM\Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\ Run

delete the reference to them,

Jud
 
J

John Dalberg

Find where the EXE files are, reboot into safe mode (F8 when the white bar
appears) , they wont be running , delete the folders containing them, and
then edit the
registry key
HKLM\Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\ Run

delete the reference to them,

They don't exist anywhere. My guess is a program creates them dynamically.

I use autostart from Sysinternals.com and there's suspecious program that
autostart.
 

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