Hi all
I usually keep my pc secure and save with symantec av, sygate firewall and ad-aware on regular scan however, i made a pretty silly mistake by installing a customized p2p software package that comes with the nasty YOK Toolbar (YOK searchassistant)
my adaware picked it up no problem and i manually deleted it both from the file folder and the registery and this is where my problem comes. after i've deleted all the files and registery entry that's related to this YOK toolbar, i ran another scan using adaware and it has picked up a dll entry [registery]
Rundll32.exe C:\PROGRA~1\YOK.com\SUPERS~1\YOK_SuperSearch.dll,YOKAssiant update
this entry is located in Name:Yok Toolbar
Category:Adware
Object Type:RegValue
Size:80 Bytes
Location:software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run "YOKAssiant"
Last Activity:01-07-2006
Relevance:Low
TAC index:5
Comment:"YOKAssiant"
Description:It is a Chinese searching assistant application, it can switch search engines from google, baidu to yahoo,zhongsou and other search engines. The major problems of this application:there is no EULA, no privacy policy; install without users' consent.
The problem for this key is that if i try to delete it, it'll pop back in no matter what method i use (deleting it manually or using adaware)
since there's a rundll32.exe in the string, Im thinking if there's a way to clear rundll32 but I cant find some useful method
so if you got a solution, please help
I usually keep my pc secure and save with symantec av, sygate firewall and ad-aware on regular scan however, i made a pretty silly mistake by installing a customized p2p software package that comes with the nasty YOK Toolbar (YOK searchassistant)
my adaware picked it up no problem and i manually deleted it both from the file folder and the registery and this is where my problem comes. after i've deleted all the files and registery entry that's related to this YOK toolbar, i ran another scan using adaware and it has picked up a dll entry [registery]
Rundll32.exe C:\PROGRA~1\YOK.com\SUPERS~1\YOK_SuperSearch.dll,YOKAssiant update
this entry is located in Name:Yok Toolbar
Category:Adware
Object Type:RegValue
Size:80 Bytes
Location:software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run "YOKAssiant"
Last Activity:01-07-2006
Relevance:Low
TAC index:5
Comment:"YOKAssiant"
Description:It is a Chinese searching assistant application, it can switch search engines from google, baidu to yahoo,zhongsou and other search engines. The major problems of this application:there is no EULA, no privacy policy; install without users' consent.
The problem for this key is that if i try to delete it, it'll pop back in no matter what method i use (deleting it manually or using adaware)
since there's a rundll32.exe in the string, Im thinking if there's a way to clear rundll32 but I cant find some useful method
so if you got a solution, please help
