[gameprogrammer] Re: OTP: deleting porn

Thanks for all the suggestions :) In this case i'm stuch with W98 and IE,
because my daughter simply doesn't have time to learn anything else and
finish her course. There is a process down in there that is restoring this
crap, you'd think an OS would lets its owner know what that process is. 

Heck, why doesn't some Windows maeven write a li'l hack to report the name
of the last program to touch a file, or intercept all file create APIs and
list the process name. Or list names of all processes in a timed list.
Gates overlooked that elementary bit of security, as well as a switch that
requires all processes to get admin permission before creating or writing
to executable files. That alone would stop 90% of viruses. A security
system i built for DOS in 1995 worked that way, and was far safer.

Grumble....

grant


At 10:41 PM 25-08-04 -0700, you wrote:
>This happened to me before :)  I forget what it was exactly but I know 
>there was some registry setting that was doing it.  Try searching your 
>registry, or under XP use system restore.
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>grant hallman wrote:
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>> Hi all:
>> 
>> Please excuse the OT posting, but i'm having a struggle getting some porn
>> sites out of my daughter's computer. There's a cuppla folders and a dozen
>> links that show up in "Favorites", which i of course deleted for her. They
>> come back in about 10 minutes. I went to Temporary Internet Links and found
>> related text, deleted the entire contents, and they still came back in 10
>> minutes or so. Some process is restoring these links, and i'm asking for
>> help finding it. We have run spybot already, it found and deleted lots of
>> stuff, but not this. 
>> 
>> P3/550, W98SE, cable modem (disconnected and off-line for the tests). Any
>> suggestions welcome, off-list or on. BTW, this kind of BS SPAM really
>> pi$$es me off. I will re-up W98 if i have to for my daughter's sake, but i
>> /want/ the SOB process that's doing this.
>> 
>> cheers - grant
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