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Removing secure32

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/removing-secure32.28511/

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andyf Original post #1
May 18, 2006 at 10:15 PM
I am new to these forums so I hope I'm posting in the right place.
My homepage has been hijacked by Secure32. I have tried to change my homepage to my Wanadoo homepage but the settting continually changes back to c:\secure32.html.I have deleted c:\secure.html and now my browser opens to an empty page.I have run Spybot and Ad-aware but spybot seems to return with CoolWWWSearch registry entries which continually reappear. I also used Hijack this returns with about 6 different secure32 entries. I also tried to fix these but they also continually reappear. When I try to run AVG and other programs a Visual Studio just-in-time debugger window appears saying there is an unhandled win32 exception error in whatever program I try to open. Any program I download it won't let me run.Thanks in advance for any help.
anandk
anandk #2
May 19, 2006 at 6:33 PM
ur browser has been hijacked by adware. download and use the latest version of freeware 'cwshredder' from *www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html

click here for info *www.antivirusworld.com/articles/virus/secure32.php
the culprit coud be 'paytime.exe' in ur system32 folder. go ahead and delet it.
R
May 20, 2006 at 12:43 PM
even my pc is infected. cwsshredder was not able to remove the problem
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andyf #4
May 20, 2006 at 10:24 PM
Managed to fix it with help from another forum but thanks for your replies.
anandk
anandk #5
May 21, 2006 at 7:34 AM
andyf said:
Managed to fix it with help from another forum but thanks for your replies.
pls post ur solution here for others benefit.
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andyf #6
May 21, 2006 at 11:40 PM
It's a very long process, the easiest thing to do is look at my thread in the Computing.net forum. It's under Security and Virus and is called removing secure32, posted by andyf.
I'm just waiting for the last reply but everything seems ok now.
Hope this helps.