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>From: "Scott Hoffman" <trader20@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Startup programs (was Regedit problem)
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:31:03 -0700
>
>I recently learned that on my W95b machine I can find all the programs that
>start in the background by looking at:
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Easy, freebie:
http://www.jv16.org/
>
>You'll find programs that startup on boot that do *not* show up under the
>Sart Menu-Programs-Startup folder.
>
>I cleaned a few things out that I didn't want and my bootup is a bit faster
>now.
>
>Scott Hoffman
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Daniel" <bogeybunky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "OMEGA LIST" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:13 AM
>Subject: REGEDIT PROBLEM
>
>
> > Thanks to everyone who offered their suggestions about my problem
>editing
> > the registry. It is now solved. The culprit was a program running in
>the
> > background. It was a Norton program called Clean Sweep. I didn't even
>know
> > it was running. It was one of those problems that loads at startup.
> >
> > One interesting aspect was that I could run regedit in Safe Mode and
>that
> > was symptomatic of a virus PWSteal.Trojan which attempts to steal login
> > names and passwords. However, that was not present.
> >
> > Bill Daniel
> >
>
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