my gfs computer has some sort of virus or some ****



it seems to load programs even when I remove them

and disable certain ones on windows start up, I disable them

and they run again when the computer reloads, and they

dont show up in windows explorer or the ADD/REMOVE programs

page, one program is all numbers and letters



any ideas besides clearing the whole hard drive out?

I have run spyware and thats about it, its some **** ass internet

thing thats the problem

The only way you can really get rid of that stuff is write down letters/numbers associated with the problem programs and run regedit.exe and modify the registry keys



I had problems in 98 when removing programs that it wasn't taking out registry keys so it still thought the program was there



Manual labour like that sucks





Long ass time ago!

what do you mean by modify the register keys?

I never claimed to be a computer pro

start-->run--> type regedit.exe then you can get rid of some ****! i have the same problem with the comp at work, its a good thing its not my work!

so I need to write down the program names or will they come up on a list?

theres a big ole long list

DONT dink with regedit just running around deleting registry keys! Just delete the ones associated with the program names that have already been "deleted".



There is a 'find' function in the menu for the program so use keywords to find anything associated with the ex-programs