best pc health components Control Center hijack

Any followup solutions to the Control Center hijack?
I cannot get into safemode, or task manager, etc.
I cannot get beyond the "Control Center" screen that loads once I
login.
Any ideas?
Is it possible to SAFELY do a "Repair Install" on a Home XP laptop
with a Pro XP CD?
Thanks.

Yes, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe

[muddcreek2]

Hi i just had the so called control center Kijack,i run vista home prem, if i remember wright go in to the settings ,it will give a whole list of settings you can change . there will only be one at the top that can,t br un checked but there is one thatyou can check that will let your computer boot up this one will say it will be unprotected, check it any way. Then go to your add and remove click control center add it should delete it hope this helps it worked for me ,good lock.

Then you should run MBAM anyway to clean up. I wouldn't trust *anything*
to uninstall like this.

(...damned nice of it to provide an uninstall string though) :o)

"FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in news:hi0oqo$nc9$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

> "muddcreek2" <muddcreek2.44ccnb@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
> news:muddcreek2.44ccnb@DoNotSpam.com...
>>
>> Hi i just had the so called control center Kijack,i run vista home
>> prem, if i remember wright go in to the settings ,it will give a whole
>> list of settings you can change . there will only be one at the top
>> that can,t br un checked but there is one thatyou can check that will
>> let your computer boot up this one will say it will be unprotected,
>> check it any way. Then go to your add and remove click control center
>> add it should delete it hope this helps it worked for me ,good lock.
>
> Then you should run MBAM anyway to clean up. I wouldn't trust *anything*
> to uninstall like this.
>
> (...damned nice of it to provide an uninstall string though) :o)
>
>
>

just be careful. I ran across one sample that had an uninstall string..
with a catch... :) Needless to say, it didn't uninstall anything.. lol, but
it did add additional goodies.


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.... Those are my thoughts anyways...

"Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9CFE33D32A05AHHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.247...
> "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
> news:hi0oqo$nc9$1
> @news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> "muddcreek2" <muddcreek2.44ccnb@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
>> news:muddcreek2.44ccnb@DoNotSpam.com...
>>>
>>> Hi i just had the so called control center Kijack,i run vista home
>>> prem, if i remember wright go in to the settings ,it will give a
>>> whole
>>> list of settings you can change . there will only be one at the top
>>> that can,t br un checked but there is one thatyou can check that
>>> will
>>> let your computer boot up this one will say it will be unprotected,
>>> check it any way. Then go to your add and remove click control
>>> center
>>> add it should delete it hope this helps it worked for me ,good lock.
>>
>> Then you should run MBAM anyway to clean up. I wouldn't trust
>> *anything*
>> to uninstall like this.
>>
>> (...damned nice of it to provide an uninstall string though) :o)
>>
>>
>>
>
> just be careful. I ran across one sample that had an uninstall
> string..
> with a catch... :) Needless to say, it didn't uninstall anything..
> lol, but
> it did add additional goodies.

An uninstall string as an update mechanism - sweet ... er I mean "how
dastardly"!!

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:02:11 GMT, Dustin Cook
<bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote, by way of
<Xns9CFE33D32A05AHHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.247>, in alt.comp.virus -->::

>"FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in news:hi0oqo$nc9$1
>@news.eternal-september.org:
>
<....>
>
>Just be careful. I ran across one sample that had an uninstall string..
>with a catch... :) Needless to say, it didn't uninstall anything.. lol, but
>it did add additional goodies.

I want details <please> ;)

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"FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
news:hii8qa$8jq$1@news.eternal-september.org:

> "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9CFE33D32A05AHHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.247...
>> "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
>> news:hi0oqo$nc9$1
>> @news.eternal-september.org:
>>
>>> "muddcreek2" <muddcreek2.44ccnb@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
>>> news:muddcreek2.44ccnb@DoNotSpam.com...
>>>>
>>>> Hi i just had the so called control center Kijack,i run vista
>>>> home prem, if i remember wright go in to the settings ,it will give
>>>> a whole
>>>> list of settings you can change . there will only be one at the
>>>> top that can,t br un checked but there is one thatyou can check
>>>> that will
>>>> let your computer boot up this one will say it will be
>>>> unprotected, check it any way. Then go to your add and remove
>>>> click control center
>>>> add it should delete it hope this helps it worked for me ,good
>>>> lock.
>>>
>>> Then you should run MBAM anyway to clean up. I wouldn't trust
>>> *anything*
>>> to uninstall like this.
>>>
>>> (...damned nice of it to provide an uninstall string though) :o)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> just be careful. I ran across one sample that had an uninstall
>> string..
>> with a catch... :) Needless to say, it didn't uninstall anything..
>> lol, but
>> it did add additional goodies.
>
> An uninstall string as an update mechanism - sweet ... er I mean "how
> dastardly"!!
>
>
>

I give them credit for the... creativity.


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