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Right, well macafee is, shall we say, not my favourite AV app....
I'll find the manual removal instructions for you and post 'em here. Have you tried the other spyware removal apps such as Adaware and Spybot S+D?
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Posted: 2006-05-05 14:25:49
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cool, yeh i agree about macafee... but its work and they get it throught the office...
We have tried everything like spy-bot and adware se etc..... still no luck
Did you see that forum? it had this in it:
' have figured out how to fix this one. McAfee will find it but NOT fix it.
1. boot-up in Safe Mode w/ Command Prompt
2. rename the wininet.dll to wininet.old
3. reboot to normal windows
4. when logged in, select the homedrive:/windows/system32/wininet.old and run Virus Scan on it. McAfee WILL then CLEAN it.
5. rename wininet.old to wininet.dll and reboot.
all's well now with no McAfee errors found and no annoying messages.
best of luck '
link to source:
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/[....]077fdbd580f50fa41694eef1bb1fe2
hope this helps? waht you reckon about that? but surely i see it as the probllem remains youve only 'ttricked' the pc into thinking its not there... am i right?
Anyhoots thanks so far and i hold my breath with regard to your squiral
Cheers
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Posted: 2006-05-05 14:44:11
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Yeah, it's kind of a trick. The idea is that by renaming the file and rebooting, the registry will try to load up the original file (.dll) and not be able to find it.
Mcafee can then deal with it because the program is not running. This is why it's always a good idea to do virus scans in safe mode, since many viruses canot be healed or deleted if they are actually loaded into memory.
That suggestion is well worth a try, in fact it might be the manual removal instructions that I still haven't got round to digging out yet
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[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2006-05-05 13:50 ]
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Posted: 2006-05-05 14:49:52
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ok mate, i will prob give that a try soon, if you do mange to dig anything out and you think its a bad idea to proceed let me know
and i wont do it (if its not to late). Fingers crossed
Lee
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Posted: 2006-05-05 14:53:31
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@Cyco or anyone, i quick need to know the dos comand prompt for changning teh name of these files.....
wininet.dll to wininet.old
I cant seem to seem to rememebr as i havent used dos for years.....
as u can see im following teh instructions from that forum..
cheers
lee
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Posted: 2006-05-05 15:48:21
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You can use either 'ren' or 'rename'
ren winnet.dll winnet.old
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Posted: 2006-05-05 15:56:03
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k mate.. tried that..... couldnt change the name so i went and loaded wininet.dll and it said to choose a program to run it... i used this menu to change the name from wininet.dll to wininet.old. sadley thsi didnt work tho coz when i started up teh pc it said explorer could not load due to missing file wininet.dll
so i wnet back to teh beginning and renmaed it back... still problem
any suggestions mate?
when im in command prompt and i enter:
ren wininet.dll wininet.old it simply says no file etc..... but the line reads:
c:/documents and settings/cath/ .................
any ideas
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Posted: 2006-05-05 16:23:31
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Ahhhh, yeh! You need to specify the path to where the file is located, or change to that directory first.
e.g. if the file is in c:\\windows\\system32, you need to type:
cd c:\\windows\\system32
before you type
ren wininet.dll wininet.old
I forget to tell you that
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Posted: 2006-05-05 16:51:50
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woohoo... changed fine this time...
although when windows reboots after login i get the following message:
'this application failed to start because of teh missing file wininet.dll, please reinstall the application......
and it gets stuck on a blue screen.... (explorer aint loaded)......
i can go back and rename the file back to wininet.dll and it will load up but have a virus... any ideas?
Lee
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Posted: 2006-05-05 17:19:33
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See if it'll reboot in safe mode and then use hijack this to take out the r4 - HKLM/run........ line for wininet.dll. This should (hopefully) stop windows trying to load the file at startup.
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Posted: 2006-05-05 17:25:04
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