Modem wants to dial when I right click to explore hard drive

[scustalow]

I cant figure this out..when I right click on a hard drive letter to explore it or run a scan disk the modem wants to dial out and connect to the net.I have windows 98 se p3 933 anyone have a idea why this is and how to fix?

[cowgoo]

It sounds like you downloaded a dialer. Try unplugging modem, press ctrl-alt del, rt click hard drive and see what exe. programs task manager shows.

[Capmaster]

Moving this to the Computer forum ...

[Jeremiah58]

Do you use anti-spyware program?
If you do - scan for dialers.
If you do not - install Spyboot Search and Destroy, update, scan and immunize your system.

[scustalow]

unplugged the modem here are the programs running
explorer
Rundll32
Usbmonit
systray
Wsloader
Rnaapp

[Capmaster]

Get Spybot

[scustalow]

I ran adware plus the update,spybot plus the update.ran norton found
keygen.exe bloodhoundw32.ep but it failed to repair it..any help please?

[JSB]

I ran adware plus the update,spybot plus the update.ran norton found
keygen.exe bloodhoundw32.ep but it failed to repair it..any help please?

Google is your friend....

Keygen.exe ... BTW how old is your virus defs??

W32.HLLW.Shower.L is a worm that spreads through the KaZaA file-sharing network.
Type: Zoo Worm
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Virus Definitions (Intelligent Updater) *
September 03, 2003


Virus Definitions (LiveUpdate™) **
September 04, 2003

bloodhoundw32.ep

Good luck,
JSB

[zzyzzx]

unplugged the modem here are the programs running
explorer
Rundll32
Usbmonit
systray
Wsloader
Rnaapp

You unplugged the modem then did the explorer thing, then hit ctl-alt-del then got the above list, right?

[scustalow]

yes that was what was listed as running

[scustalow]

In my computer I can use the left mouse button to view the contents..but just when I right click on the drive letter and icon it wants to dail the modem.??Help

[scustalow]

I just also noticed it does it even if I right click on any desk top icon

[ViRaL1]

If you're not using dial-up, go into Internet Options in Control Panel, then choose the Connections tab, click on 'Never dial a connection.' That should help some. But you still need to run AdAware, Spybot or something else to clean out whatever spyware is causing it to try to dial.

[zzyzzx]

Before you run the scan as per Viral, delete your internet cache and and temporary files (i.e. anything in c:\windows\temp). A lot of that kind of crap installs itself there.

Probably wouldn't hurt if you had the Windows98SE dial up networking patch. Check for an additional entry in your dial up networking. Also check your startup stiff in your startup folder, registry, and msconfig to see if there is anything there that there isn't supposed to be. Also look for any entries in your scheduler. I once had a virus that was particularly hard to remove because it added a scheduler task to reinstall itself. I'd delete the registry keys for it and they would be back in a few seconds.

To run msconfig:
look here http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/
and go to the Startup tab and look for anything that's not supposed to be there (better yet post what you have there so we can evaluate it). It should look like this:





To fix your registry run regedit.exe and look under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURR ENT_VERSION\ you want to see what's in Run, Runonce, RunOnceEx or anythign else that starts with the word "Run" and post it here.

To check what's in your regular startup folder go Start -> Programs -> Startup. There really should be nothing there (IMO)..

[scustalow]

I notice nwiz.exe in my startup what is this?

[zzyzzx]

nwiz.exe = NVIDIA nView Wizard. You probably don't need this. Try deleting it from your startup.