Having recently experienced a problem with a virus that was taking over my bandwidth and removing my desktop (solved thanks to good advice from members of this forum) I have now noticed that there is a suspicious icon (looks like a cartoon head in black and white) on the right of the task bar in among the programmes that launch on start up. My question is : How can I stop programmes launching on start up? To add to my concerns just as these programmes are launching I see a minimised window appear at the bottom of the desktop with just the top showing and just for a second or so entitled 'mirc'. Any advice would be most appreciated.
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Deleting Suspicious Programmes from Auto run 1
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Your problem sounds like you should do a fresh install of windoze (or better yet..linux).
To remove programs from the startup...there is a folder in you start menu...called startup....delete anything in there.
Your bandwidth problems may have something to do with spyware on your computer as well.....do a search on google for spybot....this program shoiws you all the spyware on your box....just be carefull as to what you delete.
To remove programs from the startup...there is a folder in you start menu...called startup....delete anything in there.
Your bandwidth problems may have something to do with spyware on your computer as well.....do a search on google for spybot....this program shoiws you all the spyware on your box....just be carefull as to what you delete.
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Try this app to control start up XP's Msconfig also works on 2k - available here if you haven't got XP -
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Wooluf - many thanks for the advice - I downloaded the Startup Manager programme from the link you kindly provided. I highly commend it to anyone wanting to monitor/disable/ enable programmes which are launched automatically by windows during startup. Unfortunately whilst I was then quickly able to see the trojan lurking there ( 'huigezi' ), when I disabled it with the Startup Manager and then re-booted I ended up right where I had started - with no desktop. Re-booting into DOS I found that explorer.exe was back in the system32 directory. Deleting it was the solution before but alas the bad boys are clearly now a step ahead and I am off to buy NAV/ Firewall.
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