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Hi Bis, Yes I totally agree with you on this. I have talked a few people through a system restore on Windows ME and frankly it doesn’t do exactly as it says on the tin. For some reason it always seems to retain fragments of stuff in the registry – god knows how.
I reckon that ME was the beta version of XP as far as system restore is concerned.
I agree that letting Dave loose with the registry would be a bloody nightmare and I wouldn’t take responsibility either.
My best solution to Dave’s issue is to re format his HDD and re install ME (or XP if he can buy the upgrade) and start again from there.
Ok guys I have watched this thread with some fascination. Rather than go out & buy a new computer Dave maybe the final solution to removing this persistent litte sod is to re-instal your Operating System. At least that way you will start over with a totally clean environment.
What do you reckon to this Bis??? Is is worth a go??? I sure don’t fancy the option of using a (so called) restore point in Windows ME – after all we don’t actually know when the bug got into his computer.
Oh !!! :( :( :( I feel all left out now.
I did have the “encountered a problem and needs to close” message ages ago but all I had to do was close it and re-open it and away it went good as gold. But I have never had any of the other messages – and I have used Norton for over eight years now.
Unlike Tommy – with all my computers, I have never been infected by any virus or worm or trojan etc etc. Possibly this is just plain luck, possibly it is taking care about opening attachments but mainly it is about always keeping my virus definitions totally up to date at all times.
The computer manufacturer I used to work for always installed an OEM version of AVG on everything. Personally I didn’t feel comfortable with it but that was I guess because I was used to the look and feel of Norton and didn’t like the ‘feel’ of AVG.
If this assists you I Googled the Minibug spy and found the following removal instructions:
How to Remove Minibug ?
Follow these removal instructions to manually remove Minibug from your computer:
Open Windows Task Manager (Press CTRL+ALT+DEL ).
From the process list locate the application minibug.exe and terminate it if it exists.
Search the file minibugtransporter.dll using Windows Explorer and record the directory of the file.
Click Start > Run , type the following commands:
regsvr32 /u %dir%/minibugtransporter.dll
Note: %dir% is a variable, replace it with the directory where the file minibugtransporter.dll resides.
Click Ok.Reboot the computer.
Search and delete the following file using Windows Explorer.:
minibugtransporter.dl
minibug.exeYes I know you think this – but I am curious to know what exactly it did to make you feel this way about Uncle Norton.
I have used it for several years now and have had no problems with it so I am left to wonder if I am missing something here?
Awwwww Tommy. Its easy to say I guess – but seriously why do you think that Norton is crap???
Bis – would you like to do the honours???
Awwwww Owen. Don’t have a go at the bloke because he uses Norton. We all have our likes and dislikes as far as anti virus etc software is concerned. So he maybe didn’t have the latest virus definitions installed and got bitten in the bum. There but for the grace of God ……..!!!
I have been using the Norton / Symantec suite of products for the last several years and I haven’t had any problems with any of them. I accept that not everybody has nice things to say about Norton but that’s the way it goes huh?
Separately Go Go – has your friend’s computer responded to our suggestions and is it all OK now???
Hi Ellen, so that we can assist you can you post the answers to the following:
1. What is your computer’s Operating System? (e.g. Windows 98SE; ME; 2000; NT; XP Home; XP Pro etc).2. What is the processor speed? (e.g Pentium 4, 1.5 GHz; AMD Athlon 2.0 GHz etc etc).
3.How much RAM do you have installed at the moment? (e.g 64MB; 128MB; 256MB etc etc)
4. How many ‘running processes’ are there currently on your computer at startup? (i.e how many programmes are loaded up and ready to go when you start up?).
5. Is you computer a PC or a laptop?
There are several ways to assist you with your issue, but answers to the above questions will help to point us in the right direction for YOUR computer.
Hi Bis,
No I wasn’t referring to your entirely correct instruction to start up in diagnostic mode and clean out the malware from there. I was rather poorly attempting to explain to Dave that his uninstal wasn’t complete and – as you quite rightly pointed out – he must have left some traces of IE behind which will naturally corrupt his new instal.
On a slightly different (but related point) I still haven’t worked out exactly what the worm / virus / malware infection is that Dave has??? Got any ideas???
