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Offline Cerberus

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« on: October 08, 2004, 03:31:49 AM »
Everytime I click a link on a web page, a pop up window opens up saying "tired of pop ups? your system has adware installed". I close it, and then my firewall tells me that msxmidi.exe is trying to access the internet. It\'s classed as high risk.

The warning message keeps coming up over and over.

When I run my antivirus software & adaware, it finds threats each time, when I delete them, as soon as I repeat the scan, they are there again.

WTF is causing this? and wtf is msxmidi.exe?

Furthermore, how the hell do I stop it?
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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2004, 03:42:57 AM »
http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/m/msxmidi.asp


"Hijacker: Any software that resets your browser\'s settings to point to other sites. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower.

Dropper: In viruses and trojans, the dropper is the part of the program that installs the hostile code onto the system."
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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2004, 04:05:07 AM »
they come back, because they run as services

regedit is your friend

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run
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« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2004, 04:42:17 AM »
Can someone give me detailed directions as how to fix this please?

I need step by step stuff, as I\'ve never come across anything like this before.
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« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2004, 05:04:47 AM »
go into your start menu, then click run

type regedit in the run box

go to the folder mm is guiding you to, then delete the suspect item
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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2004, 06:55:03 AM »
I want to make sure I\'m not deleting something I shouldn\'t be by mistake here, so can someone tell me which one it is? I\'m assuming it\'s the last one, but I don\'t want to risk it without knowing for sure.

By deleting this one thing, will that solve all the problems with pop-ups & trojans and stuff??
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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2004, 07:09:26 AM »
Cerberus have you tried CWShredder. I had something similar that Ad-aware and spybot couldn\'t deal with. CWShredder did.
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« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2004, 07:11:54 AM »
link?
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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2004, 07:14:30 AM »
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« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2004, 07:18:56 AM »
that link doesn\'t work
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« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2004, 07:23:00 AM »
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« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2004, 07:46:55 AM »
I downloaded it, ran it. It found something, I got rid of it, and almost instantly, another pop up came up with links to porn sites.

What the **** is happening??????

This is starting to **** me off big time now, it\'s now sending me to sites where it tries to flood my HD with trojans.

This is seriously ****ed up.
« Last Edit: October 08, 2004, 08:01:04 AM by Cerberus »
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« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2004, 09:01:43 AM »
nm, one link in the page not working
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« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2004, 09:24:58 AM »
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Originally posted by Cerberus
I downloaded it, ran it. It found something, I got rid of it, and almost instantly, another pop up came up with links to porn sites.

What the **** is happening??????

This is starting to **** me off big time now, it\'s now sending me to sites where it tries to flood my HD with trojans.

This is seriously ****ed up.


You must close all windows when you run it Cerberus. That includes all IE windows and connections. I also found that I had to run Ad-aware and spybot after CWShredder to clear my problem fully.
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« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2004, 03:55:03 PM »
run it from safe mode also

then run sbybot s&d,  then adaware

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Browser Helper Objects

is another place spyware hangs out
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