Guntz348
Mar 31, 2003, 03:14 AM
This is sort of tech support, but it's not PSO or site related tech support so I'm putting it in Off Topic.
If anyone has used Kazaa, Sharebear, Imesh or any type of P2P or has downloaded things from the internet I strogly urge you all that you search your system for a program called "NewDotNet". It's an extremely nasty spyware/trojan program that can really cripple your system. If it's not removed properly it will mess up your computer to the point where you can not use the internet at all.
My computer was lagged down very badly and I could barely get windows to boot up. Once I did I'd have to click on things several times to get them to load, this is how I knew that something was very wrong. I compared my "msconfig" start up tab with that of my freinds who had a cleaner system. He noticed that he had nothing like this. We did some research about it and found out how bad of a pragram it is. It's very hard to unistall since most versions of it do not actually create and go to the Newdotnet dir. like the company says it should. Instead it embeds it self in your windows dir. and reg files. When you try to remove it manually it somehow messes up you abbility to connect to the internet. The way I've read to do it is by disabling some of your reg files. Theres an easier way to get rid of it and a much safer way though, I'll get into that in a second.
The way to find out if you have it is simple. Just go to start and click run. Just type in "msconfig" and click on the starup tab. If you see anything that says "NewDotNet" or it sometimes shows up as 'new.net' or 'new.net startup' or anything to that affect you are infected with it. If you have it then go to the companys website. It's http://www.newdotnet.com. They have the propper removal instructions there and a program to remove it. I susspect they were forced to put a proper way to remove it to avoid legal action as it is a very dangerous file. There are many websites that I read about this program and how it crippled many systems. Also please note that Ad Aware and Spybot S&D will not find or get rid of it. The best way is to just go there website and select the unistall instructions. Don't listen to the things at the top about how this program can give you access to different websites that you can't normally get into, it's a scam and totally bogus. If infected go there and get the uninstall file and run it to get rid of it.
Edit: typos, my bad.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Guntz348 on 2003-03-31 00:17 ]</font>
If anyone has used Kazaa, Sharebear, Imesh or any type of P2P or has downloaded things from the internet I strogly urge you all that you search your system for a program called "NewDotNet". It's an extremely nasty spyware/trojan program that can really cripple your system. If it's not removed properly it will mess up your computer to the point where you can not use the internet at all.
My computer was lagged down very badly and I could barely get windows to boot up. Once I did I'd have to click on things several times to get them to load, this is how I knew that something was very wrong. I compared my "msconfig" start up tab with that of my freinds who had a cleaner system. He noticed that he had nothing like this. We did some research about it and found out how bad of a pragram it is. It's very hard to unistall since most versions of it do not actually create and go to the Newdotnet dir. like the company says it should. Instead it embeds it self in your windows dir. and reg files. When you try to remove it manually it somehow messes up you abbility to connect to the internet. The way I've read to do it is by disabling some of your reg files. Theres an easier way to get rid of it and a much safer way though, I'll get into that in a second.
The way to find out if you have it is simple. Just go to start and click run. Just type in "msconfig" and click on the starup tab. If you see anything that says "NewDotNet" or it sometimes shows up as 'new.net' or 'new.net startup' or anything to that affect you are infected with it. If you have it then go to the companys website. It's http://www.newdotnet.com. They have the propper removal instructions there and a program to remove it. I susspect they were forced to put a proper way to remove it to avoid legal action as it is a very dangerous file. There are many websites that I read about this program and how it crippled many systems. Also please note that Ad Aware and Spybot S&D will not find or get rid of it. The best way is to just go there website and select the unistall instructions. Don't listen to the things at the top about how this program can give you access to different websites that you can't normally get into, it's a scam and totally bogus. If infected go there and get the uninstall file and run it to get rid of it.
Edit: typos, my bad.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Guntz348 on 2003-03-31 00:17 ]</font>