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May 22nd, 2004, 12:05 AM
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HIJACK by WinTools...Help
I have a Compaq EVO notebook that my family uses. I noticed that it had an extra toolbar on the browser with links to adult sites. I ran Spybot and Symantec online security and virus scan and no spyware, trojans,or virii were reported. When I started looking at MSCONFIG I noticed several programs that looked suspicious. I unchecked them and removed the wireless card from the notebook. Upon rebooting, I could see the cursor intermittently turn into the hourglass. MSCONFIG showed high activity and one program that I unchecked was now checked. It is called WToolsA.exe and is in a directory called WinTools. I think it is this program that is accessing the net to download and install the another program, specifically Firstsoftwaregrey. I have tried to delete the Wintools directory but it won't let me delete it because WToolsA.exe is running. When I try to kill the process in Task Manager, I am unable. When I highlight it, it literally jumps around in the list and won't stay highlighted to delete. Obviously there is also another .exe file that runs to install the WToolsA.exe after I uncheck the process but I can't track it down. This is the most nefarious program I have come across. I have spent 3 hours this evening trying to clean this machine up to no avail. I sure would appreciate any help to get this machine cleaned up.
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