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Winshow. What is it?

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poppsy

Technical User
Jan 1, 2004
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US
I had a 8ad.com something on the computer. Seems removed but I still have problems. Since I removed the machine is even slower. I had ad-ware, spyware,cwh. ran and I checked the registry and found these:
HKEY Local--microsoft--Messenger Service : advpack.dll, LaunchINFSection, c:Windows\INF\msmsgs.inf, BLC.remove,5

HKEY-Current user-Software-Microsoft-Search Assistant-ACMru
5001
5603- win.ini, winshow*, findfast.exe,winlink,msupdater.exe,font,cdr*.sys, microsoft works
5604 -winshow*

Hkey Current user--software-microsoft-windows-current version-run :
MSMSGS "c:\program files\messenger\msmsgs.exe" /background


And a question. Can I be infected with any worm,spyware, adware thing by only opening the email (Outlook Exp.) with no files attached to them?Or: I used WIN98 with IE6 and a month ago I put XP Pro on. I am wondering it may caused all these problems?

Thank you!


 
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