And now these 2 Icon's show up...



Will it ever stop?

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

 

HEhehhe, S2Kguy, I can understand your frustration! If you delete the process in your task manager, it simply stops executing the program. It doesn't remove the file or prevent it from running the next time you fire up the PC. Try running Ad-Aware after that and see what happens. Microsoft will always warn you about terminating a process through the task manager, so it should be OK.

 

From the description you posted of loader.exe, I'd kill it. Probably those other 2 dll's as well. If you're worried you need them, copy them to a temp folder somewhere, then have ad-aware delete the originals. I suspect you'll be fine, but if not you can just copy them back. And never ever allow an auto-installer to run like that (the search tool installer) unless you know you were going to install something.

 

WinTasks Process Library



loader - loader.exe - Process Information
Process File: loader or loader.exe
Process Name: Loader
Description: Application that hijacks a user

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by chrissa If you delete the process in your task manager, it simply stops executing the program.

 

OK, I found the 2 files, but it won't let me delete them, it says they're currently in use. Is there some way to delete them without just right-clicking?

I'm going to:

My Comp
C:
WINDOWS
System32

2ndsrch.dll
btiein.dll

No luck on right clicking them...

 

Did you shut loader.exe down? If so, than there is still something running that has a lock on those files. Keep looking in the task manager.

 

Ok, how about the following links:

http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/Pugi.html
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/libra...ein/index.phtml

Each is a link to a description of some adware that contain the two DLLs you found. There's instructions to manually remove each. Though, it looks like Ad-Aware should be able to get rid of them too. The trick is to shut down the damned process that has locks on those DLLs.

 

Cool, I'll do that tonight, thanks dude!

 

Also,

If you want to make sure a program wont start when your computer loads up do:

start menu --> run --> msconfig

enter the word msconfig in the run menu. A new window will open. Click on "StartUp"

This will take you to a new window which will display all the resident programs that are loaded when you start your computer.

Example --> GainTrickler is for spyware. Just unclick the box and it will never start again. Same can be done for qttask (quicktime), and some other programs. Just make sure you just don't just clicking anything without knowing what the program does.

I only have my ati panel load up.