Please Help Me!!!

[Guest]

I had a problem on boot up when using Windows XP, my wifes cousin come round
and cleaned off my hard drive and it has been working fine although i noticed
that even before i was logged on to the Internet i received a pop-up telling
me that my Registry was damaged and that i had to go to a web site and
download Registry Cleaner.
I have experienced this problem before but can't remember how to go about
stopping it as a work collegue fixed my computer for me when i got a virus.
Can anyone tell me how to stop this pop-up withoput downloading this
Registry Cleaner which would cost me.

 

[Husky]

I had a problem on boot up when using Windows XP, my wifes cousin come round
and cleaned off my hard drive and it has been working fine although i noticed
that even before i was logged on to the Internet i received a pop-up telling
me that my Registry was damaged and that i had to go to a web site and
download Registry Cleaner.
I have experienced this problem before but can't remember how to go about
stopping it as a work collegue fixed my computer for me when i got a virus.
Can anyone tell me how to stop this pop-up withoput downloading this
Registry Cleaner which would cost me.

http://www.lavasoft.de/
download the free program and run it. If that fails, and it may.
try spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
this should get it all.
if not then try trends housecall. this could take some time since you need to download from them, and run something
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Course you have to download all the programs above, cept housecall is a one shot deal. You can go back to trend as often as you want.
If all else fails, try stepping thru all of slyck's recommendations.
http://www.slyck.com/spyad.php
I suspect from what you described that adaware will kill it. or spybot.
Inoculation can be as big a problem as spyware since you now have something scanning your incoming 24/7. same as a virus or trojans.
so ignore spybots recommendation to inoculate yourself.
It sets a realtime scanner in your startup. Next to impossible to remove cept using spybot itself.

 

[Malke]

I had a problem on boot up when using Windows XP, my wifes cousin come
round and cleaned off my hard drive and it has been working fine
although i noticed that even before i was logged on to the Internet i
received a pop-up telling me that my Registry was damaged and that i
had to go to a web site and download Registry Cleaner.
I have experienced this problem before but can't remember how to go
about stopping it as a work collegue fixed my computer for me when i
got a virus. Can anyone tell me how to stop this pop-up withoput
downloading this Registry Cleaner which would cost me.

Your wife's cousin did not do a complete job of cleaning up your
computer and it still has malware. You can go through the steps at the
link below, or take your machine to a professional computer repair shpo
(not your local version of BigStoreUSA).

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Malke

 

[Dennis Marks]

That is not an operating system message. It is adware that must somehow be
removed.

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Dennis

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