OT: "UnWise" files suddenly found on my PC

[tim at unrealexpectations.ath.cx (stetson)]

Hi Jeff,

	I _JUST_ installed XP last night because of ethical concerns <sic>
so I can't give you the best advice on it alone but it sounds as if
someone in the household may have visited a site that popped up a window
that had a yes/no answer option and it installed some "browser
customizations" <sic again> that may have hosed IE.
	From what I'm seeing XP has an integral component that will let you
"roll back" your PC to an earlier date. The good thing about this is that
you can roll back to a date that was before the problem. The bad news is
that, if it behaves like other M$ products of the like from before, all
installed programs that were installed after the date rolled back to will
not function BUT are still installed and taking up hard drive space.
	To get to this function go to Start>Programs>Accessories>System
Information and click there. When it opens go to the menu bar (File, Edit,
View, etc.) and click on the "Tools" entry and choose "System Restore".
	Once that opens, make sure the entry "Restore my computer to an
earlier time" is selected and click next. In the next screen, choose the
date in the calendar OR choose a restore point that seems to be an
entry for each instance of a program install, before the problems started.
	If you see an entry for a program you don't recognize as having
installed, that's probably the culrpit and choose to "rool back" to this
point, reboot, and test.
	 Then click next and next again. At this point (I haven't done this
yet) it should install an older copy of the registry and prompt you to
reboot.
	Reboot, and you've just stepped back in time to the point before
the errors. This _SHOULD_ work but as I have said, I haven't done it yet
and so cannot vouch for it's validity.
	If it still complains about not finding the dll repost/reply and
we'll go from there.

HTH - Give it a try.....

Tim




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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Jeff Toomasson wrote:

> This is in XP Pro
>
> My wife was doing her usual stuff on the computer. Then I tried to start Minesweeper (I'm kinda addicted to it) but couldn't.
>
> Upon restart, it hung up for at least a couple minutes when I got warning windows about trying to open some .dll file.
>
> Opened my Task Manager, and closed all the Unwise and all the warning windows.
>
> Tried to start IE (usually my default browser), and it said that it was no longer my default.
>
> What gives? Did I pick up a virus? I was going to delete all fo the Unwise files but I don't want to screw anything up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks, Jeff
>
>
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