How do you fix Damaged ActiveX controls?

{2C38A62E-D257-40E8-8BB7-5624E38FEB0A} is the ID of the control and it is in
my WINNT directory. When i right-click, I can update, delete or get
properties.
Can anyone tell me how to fix the damage?
thnx, hj
PS I am trying to fix this as a suggestion from Mike, as I am experiencing
some odd behaviour in browsers (page contents not loading properly) and
right-click menus.
thnx, hj

 

You should have stayed in the same thread.

You do *not* want that ActiveX control repaired - it's a sex dialer.
If you check the properties, you will (should) see:
http://66.230.220.3/dialerhost/download/yCltJYeu/sexsoftware.cab

Remove it.

Install HijackThis and post the contents of you log here.
And if you start another new thread, I will ignore you!

HijackThis
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/


Anti-spyware:
---------------------
Spybot Search & Destroy
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.safer-networking.org/

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Spyware Blaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html

 

Ok, so I had a bright idea that if I removed this damaged control, then any
application/site that needed it would download it again in a better state.
Then I restarted my machine.
So, now I am back on and the same pages are still not loading (eg.
theweathernetwork.com when I select a location for detailed weather
information, nothing loads)
hj

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please remove the obvious from my email...
: {2C38A62E-D257-40E8-8BB7-5624E38FEB0A} is the ID of the control and it is
in
: my WINNT directory. When i right-click, I can update, delete or get
: properties.
: Can anyone tell me how to fix the damage?
: thnx, hj
: PS I am trying to fix this as a suggestion from Mike, as I am experiencing
: some odd behaviour in browsers (page contents not loading properly) and
: right-click menus.
: thnx, hj
:
: --
: ______________________
: please remove the obvious from my email...
:
:

 

I thought that the previous thread was getting off topic from "antivirus
software suggestions," therefore the new thread. Apologies if you were
offended (ahem!).
Anywho, I will try the HijackThis thingy.
I do use and did run Ad-Aware a couple of days ago and it quarantined some
stuff - doesn't that fix it?
thnx, hj

--
______________________
please remove the obvious from my email...
: You should have stayed in the same thread.
:
: You do *not* want that ActiveX control repaired - it's a sex dialer.
: If you check the properties, you will (should) see:
: http://66.230.220.3/dialerhost/download/yCltJYeu/sexsoftware.cab
:
: Remove it.
:
: Install HijackThis and post the contents of you log here.
: And if you start another new thread, I will ignore you!
:
: HijackThis
: http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
:
:
: Anti-spyware:
: ---------------------
: Spybot Search & Destroy
: http://spybot.eon.net.au/
: http://www.safer-networking.org/
:
: Ad-Aware
: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
:
: Spyware Blaster
: http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
:
:
: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:49:34 -0400, in
: <G2Mcb.6602$>
: hugh jass scrawled:
:
: >{2C38A62E-D257-40E8-8BB7-5624E38FEB0A} is the ID of the control and it is
in
: >my WINNT directory. When i right-click, I can update, delete or get
: >properties.
: >Can anyone tell me how to fix the damage?
: >thnx, hj
: >PS I am trying to fix this as a suggestion from Mike, as I am
experiencing
: >some odd behaviour in browsers (page contents not loading properly) and
: >right-click menus.
: >thnx, hj
:
: --
: Basic computer maintenance
: http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

 

You might be able to fix that with an update to IE. Try using windows
update to see if there is a patch or SP or something for IE available.

 

I was talking about *this* thread being started, when my
advice about the ActiveX controls was in "ping mike" (in which
you failed to answer a question I asked, incidentally).

I just find it extremely irritating when people start new threads
about the same problem - it only serves to complicated matters.


SpyBot is *much* better at identifying dialers, and SpywareBlaster
places 'kill bits' in known ActiveX nasties, so that they will never
get installed - and no, neither need to be running in the background.

 

Funny, I was using Avant, which is an add-on to IE. It has some extra
functions and such.
Anyway, some pages weren't loading and I couldn't open IE. So I tried
uninstalling Avant and now IE opens and those pages are working!
I guess Avant was vulnerable to spyware or maybe it was the spyware!
So long Avant!!
hj


--
______________________
please remove the obvious from my email...
:
: : > {2C38A62E-D257-40E8-8BB7-5624E38FEB0A} is the ID of the control and it
is
: in
: > my WINNT directory. When i right-click, I can update, delete or get
: > properties.
: > Can anyone tell me how to fix the damage?
: > thnx, hj
: > PS I am trying to fix this as a suggestion from Mike, as I am
experiencing
: > some odd behaviour in browsers (page contents not loading properly) and
: > right-click menus.
: > thnx, hj
: >
: > --
: > ______________________
: > please remove the obvious from my email...
: >
: >
:
: You might be able to fix that with an update to IE. Try using windows
: update to see if there is a patch or SP or something for IE available.
:
:

 

apologies Mike for not finishing business on the previous post.
Yes, it seems that my AV query is now complete. I am happy with
EZAntivirus, though I'm still not sure why it didn't catch nobhfne.exe on
the first two passes, but did so on it's own later. Thanks for leading me
to what seems like a good piece of software that won't chew up all my system
resources and won't cost me an arm and a leg.
I was also quite impressed with spywareblaster. light on the resources and
VERY fast!
thanks again.
hj

--
______________________
please remove the obvious from my email...
: I was talking about *this* thread being started, when my
: advice about the ActiveX controls was in "ping mike" (in which
: you failed to answer a question I asked, incidentally).
:
: I just find it extremely irritating when people start new threads
: about the same problem - it only serves to complicated matters.
:
:
: SpyBot is *much* better at identifying dialers, and SpywareBlaster
: places 'kill bits' in known ActiveX nasties, so that they will never
: get installed - and no, neither need to be running in the background.
:
:
: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:35:50 -0400, in
: <4KMcb.6611$>
: hugh jass scrawled:
:
: >I thought that the previous thread was getting off topic from "antivirus
: >software suggestions," therefore the new thread. Apologies if you were
: >offended (ahem!).
: >Anywho, I will try the HijackThis thingy.
: >I do use and did run Ad-Aware a couple of days ago and it quarantined
some
: >stuff - doesn't that fix it?
: >thnx, hj
:
: --
: Basic computer maintenance
: http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html