Just bought a used PC w/XP pro that had been "gutted", already got infected with spyware, so I ran spybot and adaware. Then I realized I had no SP2, so I downloaded it. Restarted machine 'for changes to take effect', and the machine gets stuck in startup loop.
First a SONY screen, then a...
Thanks so much,
I tried to remove them before but I couldn't, but I will try the steps on the iamnotageek pages you led me to.
I did run spybot S&D and it found 125+ things to fix. I guess that's why I assumed this was innocent.
Is there an equivalent to spybot for malware?
VirusScan opens with an alert box that points to saiehook.dll (I'm pretty sure saie = search assistant for internet explorer) This locks up everything in XP. Any way to tell VirusScan to ignore what seems to be an innocent file?
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