I don't know anything about computers.. but know this is bad. This is on a laptop with vista home.. it keeps coming up in the prefetch folder no matter how many times I delete it. I've ran McAffee and AdAware and it won't even find them.. I get some really nice pop ups, but would like for them to go away. Any pointers short of starting over again clean?
I got a virus/worm.. DLLhost.exe ??
- Thread starter Ol'Drippy
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where is the file located at? google dllhost.exe. a lot of times, this is a file run by windows and needs to be kept. other times, it could be a virus.
are you sure it is this file causing the problems?
have you cleaned the registry? from what little I know, it will get in the registry and no matter how many times you delete it, if you dont take care of it in the registry, it will never go away.
are you sure it is this file causing the problems?
have you cleaned the registry? from what little I know, it will get in the registry and no matter how many times you delete it, if you dont take care of it in the registry, it will never go away.
It's actually part of com+, so it may or may not be a virus. Surf MS's web site and somewhere you should be able to find the way to identify which you have, the real one or a virus.
If you began experiencing problems after visiting a web site, or attempting to download a codec, music or video file, more than likely you have a virus that is written into your registry. I am seeing quite a bit of this lately w/ my clients. re-formatting will usually not correct the issue, a true low format and re-install will take care of it, though. Programs like registry cleaner will not remove this virus; and unless you know exactly what you are doing, attempting to clear it using regedit is only successful sometimes. :twocents:
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Well, I started in safe mode and found the files created during the timeframe of the beginning of the problem.. It seems to be doing better, no websites popping up right now.. though I do have a couple of .dll errors now every time we start the computer.. not sure what to do about that, I googled the names of the files and nothing comes up.
I'm running all of my scans again to try and see anything unusual.. wish me luck
I'm running all of my scans again to try and see anything unusual.. wish me luck
C:\Users\Computer\AppData\Local\Temp\ddcCVPfc.dll
C:\Users\Computer\AppData\Local\Temp\opnonMe.dll
Do either of these .dll files mean anything to anyone? And how to I repair them?
C:\Users\Computer\AppData\Local\Temp\opnonMe.dll
Do either of these .dll files mean anything to anyone? And how to I repair them?
Hey, I had to clean up a buddy's laptop from something similar...I think you're on the right track.....
He'd downloaded every freeware/shareware virus program out there, ran them multiple times, and while we got most cleaned off, there was this one last pesky one....
What was going on was w/ this particular one, we'd run one of the clean-up programs, then reboot, and it was back. Turned out, there was another guilty file that was the cause of the problem, that the clean-up program wasn't getting, but each time the PC booted, it would generate another file that was the one showing up.
The way I found the particular file was by date; I sorted the files in the the Windows directory and located the one that was causing the problem, manually deleted it, and then it quit coming back.
Those particular ones you've isolated, I don't know about.... if you've got a boot-disk, what you could try, is to pull them out of that directory into a separate directory, see how things run, before tossing them....
He'd downloaded every freeware/shareware virus program out there, ran them multiple times, and while we got most cleaned off, there was this one last pesky one....
What was going on was w/ this particular one, we'd run one of the clean-up programs, then reboot, and it was back. Turned out, there was another guilty file that was the cause of the problem, that the clean-up program wasn't getting, but each time the PC booted, it would generate another file that was the one showing up.
The way I found the particular file was by date; I sorted the files in the the Windows directory and located the one that was causing the problem, manually deleted it, and then it quit coming back.
Those particular ones you've isolated, I don't know about.... if you've got a boot-disk, what you could try, is to pull them out of that directory into a separate directory, see how things run, before tossing them....
EJB90 said:
Stop that!
Why buy a Mac when the software is written for Windows? Why buy a Mac, when work hands you a PC?
Sure, if all I ever did was surf the 'net, make web-pages, photochop images or played w/ mixing music tracks, etc., artsy-fartsy stuff, sure, a Mac is the easy way to go. But for engineering, GIS, there are times when a Mac isn't the right answer......
EJB90 said:
Ditto, buy a Mac and then put Windows (what ever, vista, XP, MC) and backup through the Mac so when ever something should go wrong you have a stable platform to jump off of.
Scott
- Hope you get that bug fixed!
Ol'Drippy said:
Get rid of McAffe its total shit. Go to Cnet download and either get avast or AVG. And reinstall XP because Vista is also shit.
WNYDiscoIIErik said:
Two Different Hard drives. One internal, One external. Or dump big bucks and get a Mac Pro and do both internal.:victory:
Scott
This laptop is my wife's.. I thought I had it cleared as I didn't get anymore pop ups, et al for any of the time i was on it yesterday. She woke me up last night to tell me that it is still messed up and giving her pop-ups.. I'm going to try again tonight. If I don't succeed, we've got a computer friend coming to town this weekend and he'll be able to help us out more.. This laptop isn't but a year old if that, and I could care less that it has Vista because it simply isn't used for anything but goofing off on.. no work at all. I have looked at Macs, but they just dont' make sense to me for what we need it for.. also, got this Toshiba at Best Buy for like $400 or something last year.. can't beat that. If it is truely fu-barred, which I doubt, it won't be too expensive to replace. What's the cheapest Mac you can get.. like $1000 or so? I won't be going Mac, not now, not... well never say never right?
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A place where I volunteer had this same virus. It to me for fucking ever to figure it out, but I'm also not the most computer savvy guy, either.
I can't remember all the details, but I loaded the following onto the machine. All this is freeware:
AVG
Spy Bot
AdAware
You can get all of them from Download.com
One program alone would not cure the bug. SpyBot would find it, but would not remove it at the time. I would say SpyBot has an update by now to correct this bug. It's was fairly common when I was trying to get rid of it.
I had to run the programs multiple times as well as re-boot multiple times.
I can't remember all the details, but I loaded the following onto the machine. All this is freeware:
AVG
Spy Bot
AdAware
You can get all of them from Download.com
One program alone would not cure the bug. SpyBot would find it, but would not remove it at the time. I would say SpyBot has an update by now to correct this bug. It's was fairly common when I was trying to get rid of it.
I had to run the programs multiple times as well as re-boot multiple times.
Drippy, I rarely keep after a post like this, but I hate to tell you, short of a magic wand, you'll most likely need to do a low format. That virus is written in the registry start up files, and it will allow you to delete it and re-write a new registry entry upon deletion, so even a regular formatting will not remove it. Keep in mind anything you saved and or backed up after you picked this little baby up is corrupted, too. Check the link in my earlier post. Best of luck.