March 22, 2004
one little comment
And suddenly the hits to my blog jump 500%... (sad when 25 or 22 hits is 500%)
Apparently many many people are suffering from the same homepage stealing as I was. And they're all searching Yahoo/MSN/Excite for "clrschp028" (there... just created more traffic for this page) ahahahaha.
Anyways, in band news we had a gig at Longriders on Friday, and then Saturday took a road trip up to Grande Prairie and played a gig at 5 mile hall. All in all the weekend was fun, even though I accumulated a total of 15 hours of sleep, and had to ride in the back seat of a 11 seat GMC Savana. I don't think my spine will ever be the same.
Oh, and for all you folks finding this blog, looking for ways to get rid of clrschp028, I had to go into Internet Options and change the homepage there (Start > Settings > Control Panel > Internet Options), and also remove some registry entries (using Regedit) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\ and I also got rid of O.bat and O. Luckily I did a search for files by date, so they were pretty easy to find. I also quickly updated win2K on www.windowsupdate.com, as I think they are most likely using one of the many many security holes in IE.
OH ... an addition... just changed my security settings in IE to prompt running ActiveX... looks like that's what is being used to install the crap onto your machine. AMAZING how often I'm prompted, and when I say no there is no visible effect to the page viewed.
Here's ANOTHER reason to disable ActiveX on your browser
Posted by Oorgo at March 22, 2004 07:39 AMEasier fix. Just download Firefox (http://mozilla.org/projects/firefox) and never worry about it again. Built in pop up blocker as well. Oh, and it doesn't open you wide up to exploits and other such lovelyness :)
Posted by: Arcterex at March 22, 2004 03:15 PMI agree... I've downloaded firefox at home and work, and I haven't looked back.
Posted by: Darren James Harkness at March 23, 2004 03:10 PM|
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