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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 8:05 am
Texannie, try running Trend Micro Housecalls. I've found that it detects some things that stinger does not. 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 8:11 am
ok..i have that one too, will run it.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 8:16 am
Texannie: What you posted looks close enough to be the same. When they list locations such as 'systemroot' or '%systemroot%' that indicates what the evnironment is set to for where main system files are located. If you open a command prompt and type in the command: echo %systemroot% you will see what path Windows substitutes for that variable. It will probably be something like this: C:\WINDOWS indicating where Windows is installed. The important part is the rntx.dll & rntx.int files along with the other files identified on the page shown at the link above. According to the reports I'm finding, this trojan has been around for a while. I'm not sure why Stinger and/or McAfee are not finding it to help remove it. You may have to follow then instructions on that page to manually remove it from your system. Be sure to follow the instructions completely including backing up the registry or setting a restore point before trying to clean the problem out of your computer.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 8:23 am
It's strange. I just ran McAfee and Stinger last week, plus adaware and spybot. I just installed the yahoo toolbar and they have a spyware checker and that's where it came up. Can i use the their removal tool?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 9:28 am
well, i am not stumped by much, but Dra, I didn't understand those instructions at all!!!!!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 9:38 am
Texannie: It wasn't meant to be instructions. Just an illustration of what you would find if you look at your computer environment variable for your system's root directory (where your installed windows files are located). I was attempting to explain what the description at the link above means by 'systemroot+' in the location of the suspect files. If you find you have to manually remove this problem, be sure to follow the instructions found at the link posted above very carefully including backing up your registry and/or creating a system restore point so you can get back to the current settings should anything go wrong during the attempt to remove this problem. Sorry for the confusion.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 11:32 am
No, I meant the instructions at the link. I ran Trend and nothing came up either.????? I deleted it from the spyware manager.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 12:07 pm
you ran housecalls from the website?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 12:48 pm
yep. all clear there. the only place that showed i had this was yahoo spyware.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 1:56 pm
does yahoo have a removal option?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 2:09 pm
yes, and i used that.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 1:55 pm
I got a pop up ad to download Registry Cleaner, saying it could fix errors in my registry. Of course I didn't tell it ok. I thought, I'll come here and ask the experts if running a registry cleaner is a good idea. I Googled, and it looks like there are several types. If it is a good thing to do, are there any programs out there that are better than the rest? Any to avoid? Thanks!
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 2:22 pm
Whoami: The only program I've ever used to clean the registry has been Norton Utilities. This program also scans my computer for missing files, bad shortcuts, etc. and offers to repair or remove them. What most frequently happens is when you remove a program and the uninstall doesn't finish completely. This can leave stray entries in your registry either to files that are no longer there or possibly an uninstall link in the Add/Remove Programs for something you've already installed. If you decide you need this type of utility, please be very careful and either backup your registry first and/or set a new restore point before using it. This should give you a way to recover in case something goes bad during the cleanup. I would most strongly recommend only considering a program from a company you know has a good reputation for quality software. Anything less could be disastrous to your computer. Hope this helps.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 7:25 am
I run ME and because of their system restore, it's been suggested that I do scan disk and disk defrag in safe mode, which i do. But lately it's taking forever....took 3 hours to run this am!!!!!! What's up with that????
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:09 pm
I have a really really dumb question. For some reason, the scroll button on my mouse has decided to work only every now and then. Just started happening for no good reason. Is it possible my mouse is just worn out? Or is there something I can try to revive the poor thing?
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:14 pm
Tish, you could try some cheese Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:27 pm
Did you clean the mouse's balls?
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:31 pm

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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:31 pm
My 4 year old mouse started acting up last week--stalled and skipped around. I cleaned the ball and the roller contact points, then found a few dust bunnies in it and removed them. It has been perfect since then. 
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:33 pm
If you mean the wheel-like scroll bar in the middle of the top of the mouse, I haven't seen that being cleaned by hand. The big ball at the bottom you can usually take out and clean but not the more inside parts. I fear your mouse may have gone to silicon heaven.
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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:35 pm
Texannie, a friend had the same problems with ME and it was due to the HUGE restore files it was storing. On her 20GB hard drive 14GB were filled with restore files. It took her over 12 hours to defrag. She turned off the restore feature which cleared the cache of files, then defragged and turned the restore feature on again.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:35 pm
How old and worn out is your mouse? Does it look like this?

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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:38 pm
Texannie: How full is your hard disk? How much disk space is being used by the system restore files? If your system is stable, you can disable system restore, reboot and then enable system restore to reclaim that disk space. Also, clear all your temporary files from your browser and see if that frees up a bunch of disk space. The defrag program needs free space to to the defragmenting and has to work harder (slower) when there is less free space to start with. Another thing to check is your virtual memory settings. Somewhere under MyComputer->Preferences you will find these settings. If you let the system control this, then you sometimes can get a very large file that is fragmented across your disk. Check the other stuff first and see if you can find your virtual memory settings and then we can go from there.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:40 pm
Pamy!!!!!! lol
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 8:41 pm
LOL. OK, all ya smarties! It is the scroll "bar"/wheel thingy. I'm gonna try to clean it a bit and see whether it's gone to silicone-rodent heaven. Maybe I was on the computer while I ate greasy foods and it coated the wheel. It's not quite in rigor mortis, though! For the record, I am always amazed at how hard those mouse balls are! Scandalous.
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