Registry Editor Error at signon

[Jan]

When I sign on to my computer I get a message that says
c:\windows\sp.reg error opening the file. There may be a
disk or file system error. Also there is an icon that says
Registry Editor. Does anyone know what this means?
Thanks.

 

[John John]

You either have a virus or a spyware/browser highjacker. Run a Virus
scan on your machine and an AdAware scan.

# "Unknown portal potties (redirecting to goto.com, topsearcher.com, et
al) - add files with names such as: sps.dll, sp.dll, sp.reg, sb.dll or
similar to your system. In your StartUp folder you will see one or more
lines such as: "regedit -s c:\windows\sp.dll". To fix, delete/rename the
files appearing in this manner in the StartUp folder, and (optionally)
remove the entries from the StartUp folder. These are actually Registry
files that are loaded in at startup via Registry Editor."
http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm

I strongly suggest that you use this:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

John