[pchelpers] unbranding IE, premature end of software trial

Hi

I'm experiencing the following strange and interesting problems after 
reinstalling Windows 98:

Trojan Hunter http://www.misec.net/ stopped working even though the 
trial period is not up. Uninstalling and reinstalling Trojan Hunter 
didn't work, not even running registry cleaners before reinstalling, 
setting back the date, or deleting the program folder after uninstalling.

It seems there is some cunning way that this program counts the number 
of days it's been used and stores the info where neither manual searches 
for the company or program name or registry cleaners find it. Apparently 
this count gets messed up and produces a veto of sorts when the registry 
is deleted due to a reinstall.

I expect the company may answer an email once the holidays are over, but 
i'd like to return this computer sooner than that.


Unbrand http://www.local.nu/HelpDesk/index.php/Windows_cleanup can't get 
rid of the ISP name in the IE title bar. This is only a minor nuisance 
but very interesting.

It was a major nuisance before because i couldn't even get rid of the 
annoying Internet connection wizard that kept popping up and trying to 
connect to the ISP by dial-up when i tried to start IE. When i 
interrupted that, it always closed IE. It seems the cause of that 
problem was that Windows 98 can't take more than 4 entries in the 
broadband network adapter's properties and then doesn't show a local 
area connection in network connections even when the network adapter is 
installed correctly. Once i deleted the dial-up adapter, IE discovered 
the broadband connection.


PS: On the topic of strange and interesting problems, here's another 
one. AVG's rescue disks found but didn't delete 3 trojans. I had to do 
that manually in DOS.




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