Deleting files that don't exist (bear with me...)

[Stuart]

Ok - checking the Trend site (http://www.antivirus.com) this appears to be REG_SEXYCAT.A You will need to edit the registry to get rid of this properly.

For details on removal, see this page for more details

Stuart

[Neil Jones]

this is odd, DJGM hasn't been along and told you if you got Mozilla you wouldn't have all these problems

You're not helping the situation with your anti IE vibes, kindly go away.

Service Pack 2 - from what I've used of it - fixes a hell of a lot of problems like this in IE.

And SP2 is still in beta so not suitable for the majority of users. Pointless intervention.

[Big Brother]

I've got anti-virus and I use pandasoftware.com's online one to double check. And that Adware 6 worked like a chocolate teapot on this beast of a machine. The pop-ups re-appear days later.

What I find when I start up is items start up so quick and go off so quick that you don't get a chance to see it. My antivirus does bring a message telling me Belt.exe is trying to access the net. I have deleted this.

There is also various other programs appear in my documents and settings folder - by their self. Another VERY common one is iircB32 or something to that effect. It changes names everytime and it's never in the place it says it is on the anti-virus. It will appear automatically when I'm browsing the net.

wjview.exe - Suddenly appeared. This is something to do with Microsoft. I don't remember installing anything from Microsoft or even updating. I'm baffled as to how it appeared.

MsPMSPSv.exe - I was told this was Microsoft again. It was another to suddenly appear. But it appeared the same time as all my problems started and I'm convinced it's this. When I 'End Proccess' this the popups usually stop or become less. However this week it's moved to a SYSTEM process and can't be ended.

[Chris]

wjview.exe - Suddenly appeared. This is something to do with Microsoft. I don't remember installing anything from Microsoft or even updating. I'm baffled as to how it appeared.

That has something to do with Microsoft Java . . .



Do a search for it on your drives. The only places that wjview should appear is in your Windows\System32 folder and in your Windows\System32\dllcache folder. Anywhere else (apart from any system backups of course) and you should be suspicious and should be deleted or renamed if you are not 100% sure you want to get rid of it. (e.g. old rather than exe)

MsPMSPSv.exe - I was told this was Microsoft again. It was another to suddenly appear. But it appeared the same time as all my problems started and I'm convinced it's this. When I 'End Proccess' this the popups usually stop or become less. However this week it's moved to a SYSTEM process and can't be ended.

From a page on Google....

Process File: mspmspsv or mspmspsv.exe
Process Name: WMDM PMSP Service
Description: Helper service installed by Windows Media Player 7. The service allows Windows Media Player to support the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) protocol when copying CDs or packaging copyrighted downloaded music to SDMI-compliant music players and storage devices.
Company: Microsoft Corp.

[Big Brother]

wjview.exe - Suddenly appeared. This is something to do with Microsoft. I don't remember installing anything from Microsoft or even updating. I'm baffled as to how it appeared.

That has something to do with Microsoft Java . . .



Do a search for it on your drives. The only places that wjview should appear is in your Windows\System32 folder and in your Windows\System32\dllcache folder. Anywhere else (apart from any system backups of course) and you should be suspicious and should be deleted or renamed if you are not 100% sure you want to get rid of it. (e.g. old rather than exe)

MsPMSPSv.exe - I was told this was Microsoft again. It was another to suddenly appear. But it appeared the same time as all my problems started and I'm convinced it's this. When I 'End Proccess' this the popups usually stop or become less. However this week it's moved to a SYSTEM process and can't be ended.

From a page on Google....

Process File: mspmspsv or mspmspsv.exe
Process Name: WMDM PMSP Service
Description: Helper service installed by Windows Media Player 7. The service allows Windows Media Player to support the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) protocol when copying CDs or packaging copyrighted downloaded music to SDMI-compliant music players and storage devices.
Company: Microsoft Corp.

Well I did some looking into WJVIEW.exe on the PC. It's started by the blubster p2p software. I've removed that entry and uninstalled blubster - bloody thing stopped working anyway.

[DAS]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far. New developments in the case of this sodding virus thing...

What's happening now is that IE spontaneously runs in the background and loads up various questionable sites in the background. I first found out this was happening when the cursor would change to a time symbol while the pages loaded, or I heard one of the Windows sound effect things.

This picture demonstrates the problem:



As much as I'd love to see beautyfull Scandinavian lovelies, I don't want them sneaking around in the background.

And something that's concerning me is that I've just heard a Windows sound, run Task Manager to find one of the running IE windows with the title "Please wait while the download commences".

[Pete]

this is odd, DJGM hasn't been along and told you if you got Mozilla you wouldn't have all these problems

You're not helping the situation with your anti IE vibes, kindly go away.

Service Pack 2 - from what I've used of it - fixes a hell of a lot of problems like this in IE.

And SP2 is still in beta so not suitable for the majority of users. Pointless intervention.

It would have been less pointless if I'd remembered to submit my edit which added the words "For future reference" to the start of the second sentence and "so hopefully problems like these will be a thing of the start" to the end of it. I'm on another machine on which I haven't added the little extension that warns me I've got more than one tab open to Firefox yet.

[DJGM]

. . . DJGM hasn't been along and told you if you got Mozilla
you wouldn't have all these problems, he's slipping up . . .

I was going to do just that, but since there's a bit too much ignorance and/or complacency
amongst most (if not all) IE users around here, I thought . . . "F*** it, what's the point?!?"

Too ignorant to the fact that IE is currently riddled with various security holes that allow
malware to get through and cause the sort of probvlems described in this thread, and
too complacent to actually bother taking preventative action to do anything about it!

I have absolutely no sympathy for people who allow this to happen to their systems,
and then still continue to use the software that allowed it happen in the first place!

[Neil Jones]

. . . DJGM hasn't been along and told you if you got Mozilla
you wouldn't have all these problems, he's slipping up . . .

I was going to do just that, but since there's a bit too much ignorance and/or complacency
amongst most (if not all) IE users around here, I thought . . . "F*** it, what's the point?!?"

Too ignorant to the fact that IE is currently riddled with various security holes that allow
malware to get through and cause the sort of probvlems described in this thread, and
too complacent to actually bother taking preventative action to do anything about it!

Be that as it may, it's not your problem and if persons wish to use a browser "riddled with various security holes that allow malware to get through", that is their decision.

I have absolutely no sympathy for people who allow this to happen to their systems,
and then still continue to use the software that allowed it happen in the first place!

And I have no sympathy for people like yourself who get a kick of writing and/or linking to anti IE passages on their websites. In fact it goes against the whole point of the web. If you have a site, it should be useable whatever browser you use, even if it doesn't display exactly the same. It's not your job to tell people what browsers they should be using to view your site.

I don't recall widescale bashing of Netscape 4 when it was clear how crap it was, in fact many people suggested many workarounds for its shortcomings. Now the only solution for IE6 shortcomings seems to be "replace it". Why should we?

Like I argued in the "Netscape back from the dead" thread in the other forum, think of the complaints somebody like the BBC or Amazon would receive if they put anti-IE messages on the homepage.

[Chris]

You were saying DJGM....

If the developer were to design to standards, then it would display correctly in ALL current browsers, and that includes Internet Explorer.

:roll:

[Chris]

. . . DJGM hasn't been along and told you if you got Mozilla
you wouldn't have all these problems, he's slipping up . . .

I was going to do just that, but since there's a bit too much ignorance and/or complacency
amongst most (if not all) IE users around here, I thought . . . "F*** it, what's the point?!?"

Too ignorant to the fact that IE is currently riddled with various security holes that allow
malware to get through and cause the sort of probvlems described in this thread, and
too complacent to actually bother taking preventative action to do anything about it!

I have absolutely no sympathy for people who allow this to happen to their systems,
and then still continue to use the software that allowed it happen in the first place!

You may think that IE has more holes than a piece of french cheese but the fact of the matter is that the majority of all these problems, if not all are caused by the user of the computer. Clicking "Yes" to everything that pops up, opening up email attachments from unknown people, not having firewalls or antivirus and failing to patch their system are reasons why people get such problems.

Spyware and other malware such as porn diallers do not magically load onto computers, regardless of whatever platform they are on unless it is a trojan horse - but then again how many trojan horses have you seen put porn popups advertising sexy swedish sluts onto people's computers.

It is installed by the user - as a result of clicking "yes" to anything that pops up or being tricked into it by social engineering (ie. having a popup that says you must click yes in order to enter this site) that the ad-toolbar makers use to get people to install their crap. Also it is caused by not reading properly when installing software - I have read many reports on the web saying that Messenger Plus is loaded with spyware - it is not if you read the options carefully when installing it.

EDIT - this is what I mean about the 'social engineering' tricks as referred to by the above..

Random site pops up and asks you if you want to install a premium rate dialler.



User clicks yes. Installs crap on their system. User clicks no and proceeds to reload again and tries and tricks the user by saying you must press yes in order to access the site or content (in this case its games)



Also not having adequate "protection" such as a firewall and antivirus package causes problems as well with regards to worms, virusses and trojans spreading. The web is more volatile than it was a few years ago with more risks such as virusses in emails, worms such as the MS Blaster that brought down many systems as a result of people not having any antivirus/firewall software and/or failing to patch regularly. Slammer was also another example of people not bothering to patch - I read somewhere that a patch had been around for a number of months before it was exploited.