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I/ve been busy, but I think I stopped the program.
I ran...
Norton AV, then Backdoor Agent.B Removal, then Trend Micro's scanner, then
Panda's Action Scan, and finally Bitdefender. Although each of these
programs found viruses and pests, I still hadn't found anthing that got rid
of dvdkey.exe...although I found two more files: windows/dvdkey.exe and
windows\docs&settings\"user name"\local settings\temp\yekdvd.dat. I couldn't
get rid of these files either.
So I went into SAFE MODE and re-ran Norton AV, ran NoAdware, and PestPatrol.
While clearing out the registers identified by PestPatrol, I found the
dvdkey.register. It was at HKLM\software\microsoft\current
version\run|*dvdkey.
I deleted the register, but it recreated itself!!!! (argh) I noticed the
path for the register was "dvdkey.exe rerun". I modified the value by
deleting the "rerun".
Without restarting (yet), I went to the task manager and dvdkey.exe was
GONE!!! I was also (finally) able to delete the files
Windows\prefetch\dvdkey.exe, windows\dvdkey.exe, and
windows\...\temp\yekdvd.dat. After emptying the trash, I rebooted, normal.
I got an error message that windows couldn't find dvdkey.exe. So there must
still be a stray register out there that I cannot find, but at least the
program is not running anymore!!
Thanks!
dbarrett
"Wesley Vogel" wrote:
> Update your anti virus software and run a full system scan.
>
> Free online virus scans:
>
> Trend Micro - Free online virus Scan
>
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
>
> Panda ActiveScan - Free online scanner
>
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
>
> BitDefender Free Online Virus Scan
>
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
>
> Get Your AVG for free!
>
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
> Wes
>
> In news:797A8397-8895-451A-898D-27BD32C2741A@microsoft.com,
> db <db@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> > My son has some sort of bug on his computer. He noticed it was
> > running really slow. He checked the processes and found "dvdkey.exe"
> > using various amounts of processor time (up to 95%). Basically, he
> > cannot run anything else.
> > We tried killing the process...it restarted itself.
> > We found the file (at c:/windows/prefetch/dvdkey.exe). We tried
> > deleting it and it recreated itself.
> > We started his computer in SAFE MODE. Again, the process kept
> > restarting and the file kept recreating.
> > Please help...
>
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