[gameprogrammer] Re: OTP: deleting porn

Just another suggestion, BillP studios have a free piece of software
called something like Scotty the Windows Watchdog.  What it does is
tells you:

a) What processes are set to automatically start at boot-time
b) Whenever a process tried to set itself to start automatically at
boot-time.

It was good enough for me to be able to get rid of a porn program that
was randomly opening my browser at a porn site every few minutes.

Oh right, it's real name was WinPatrol, and the site is
http://www.winpatrol.com/faq.html

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 10:07, grant hallman wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >grant hallman wrote:
> >
> >> 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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