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Posted By: P. Drammel In Response To: Re: some progress and one ongoing problem (Richard)
Wednesday, 3 August 2005, at 7:43 p.m.
I think the PokaPoka62.exe file is your problem. I am not sure if the folder it is under (EBT) is needed by your system, but you can try deleting just the file. Check to see the dates on the file and the folder. If they are all recent (like after the popups hell started), you should definitely delete it.
You may run into a problem where you cannot delete it because it is being used by windows. If that is the case look in your msconfig under the startup folder. Go to start, then run, then type in "msconfig" without the quotations. Then hit OK. A window will come up. Click on the "startup" tab. Look to see if that file is anywhere in there. If it is, disable it from starting up when Windows starts up by unchecking the box next ot the reference to the program. Close out of that msconfig but do not restart just yet if it tells you to do so. First, do a ctrl+alt+del after you have exoted msconfig. You will see a list of programs currently running on your syste,m. See if the pokapoka program is showing. If it is, make sure you shut it down (the poka file, that is). Then, go back into your EBT folder and try deleting it.
If it deletes, restart windows. Then when your system is up and running again, run the reg cleaner to cear out any reference ot the file in the registry.
If it does not delete, restart windows THEN go into the EBT folder and try deleting it. If it does, then run the reg cleaner again.
If this still does not work, you may need to try to delete the file within DOS.
Problem is, I never used WinXP. I hear that you cannot shutdown windows into DOS like previous Winnows poerating systems. I may be wrong. So if you can reboot into DOS, this is how you will need to delete the file.
If you need to know how to delete the file within DOS, let me know.
> Greetings from sunny Texas,
> Thanks for the help. It has helped some but I have a recurring issue that
> I spent some time on today about three hours and still don't have it.
> It is hard to delete a directory that is not present but when following
> your advice I did notice one repeating item.
> C:/windows/etb/pokapoka62.exe I have deleted that accompanying registery
> key four or five times In fact every time I run the reg cleaner.
> I did a search for pokapoka62.exe and I am working on it.
> I ran another program that found 299 errors but will not fix them until I
> pay for it. That is ok I kept a log file so I can look at these. Yet other
> programs tell me that I am free of "illnesses" .
> I will run some other virus programs in the am and try to find a solution.
> Thanks anyway.
> Richard
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