res:\\...

[Caleb]

I somehow obtained a virus or adware...confused on what it
is, but it is anoying...What happens is my homepage is set
to res:\\khkkw.dll\(something) even if i change the
homepage, it gets set back to this...so what i did was i
found the file khkkw.dll in C:\\windows and i deleted
it...this allowed me to change my home page. But now
whenever i type in a webpage and leave out www. it brings
up a res:\\khkkw.dll\ and the a little later, i open up
Internet Explorer again and the homepage is
res:\\khkkw.dll again, and i check C:\\windows, and the
file has been recreated...what the heck???
..

 

[Hilary Karp]

Caleb,

Download these programs, then install and UPDATE each one before
running. Finally boot into safe mode and run the scans. Afterwards you
should run these scans at least weekly:

Cwshredder
http://209.133.47.200/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner
http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10247783.html

After your system is clean try these two programs to help keep it clean:

Spywareblaster
www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html

IE-SPYAD
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm

Make sure you are running a firewall at all times and that your
anti-virus program is a recent version with current virus definitions.