Yes, I know you don't exist. Stop telling me that! I don't care!

[Seriphyn]

http://img461.imageshack.us/img461/3262/stopthisnow9ug.jpg

When I restored my computer back a few weeks to stop some BSODs, AVG popped up instantly telling me a virus had been detected at Program Files/New dot com (or something along those lines).

I deleted the first file, then another file came up, but I couldn't do anything. I decided I'd just go straight to the location and delete the whole bloody folder. So I did.

Now, the dialog box above keeps popping up everytime I start windows, and its annoying. How can I get rid of it?

[Paradigm^]

Start -> Run, type msconfig and take a peek in the startup tab, see if anything there is trying to load it at startup.

[Seriphyn]

Says Windows can't find 'msconfig'....

[da-geezer]

NewDotNet and it's variants are well known types of spyware.

You might want to run a quick scan on that :)

[Seriphyn]

Well, the NewDotNet folder is gone, but that prompt just keeps on appearing.

[Paradigm^]

What operating system are you running?

[Seriphyn]

Windows XP service pack 2

[Meatwad]

You're running XP SP2, but it says msconfig cannot be found?

Try again.

[Seriphyn]

Exact words are...

Windows cannot find 'msconfig'. Make sure you typed it blah blah blah YOU SUX0R YOU CANNOT SPELL LOLZ!!!!111

I just did a search on it. Its called 'System Configuration Utility' right? Well, I went on to the 'Startup' tab and unchecked the one which related to newdotnet.

Thanks for the help. Plusses all round (even though you'll only get, like, 5 points maybe?).

[Playbus]

Although unchecking the box in the System Config Utility stops the errors, it's really only treating the symptoms and not the cause of the problem. I suspect when you reboot now you get a message about 'Selective Startup'?

If not, then that's odd. Normally, changing any startup options in there puts Windows into this Selective Startup mode, which brings a prompt up at startup telling you stuff about it. It's just as annoying as the other error message when you don't want it.

So if it is happening, search the registry for the DLL's filename and delete any entries you find. You can tell when this has worked because the entry for newdotnet (which is frankly horrendous software, by the way) will disappear from the Systems Config Utility startup tab altogether and you can startup in normal mode again.

[da-geezer]

You're running XP SP2, but it says msconfig cannot be found?
Try again.
To be fair, I've seen this happen before. A friend of mine has a fucked computer that refuses to load msconfig.

Try looking here instead:
[your windows directory]\pchealth\helpctr\binaries

[Paradigm^]

The Selective Startup thing only happens the first time. After that you tick the "fuck off and stop telling me, I know, I put it there" box and you never see it again :p

[Al]

... until you selectively change something *else*, and even though you've not changed out of selective startup mode it's still whining that you've set it.

[Paradigm^]

And then you tick the box and it goes away again.

It's not that bloody hard!