Registry Phantoms

[IcSilk]

I'v been trying to clean up, re-maintain, and optimize my parents computer after about 3 years of it going through no-maintenance status.

I'm just getting to the final climax of my endeavours and have run into a snag, and I know that if I can't get the answer from Antionline then I probably won't get the answer at all.

I have some adware that is in the registry, I know the path and file names to them, but when I have attempted to locate them in the registry I can't find them.

Here is what I'm looking for:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Cydoor
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Cydoor Services
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cydoor
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cydoor Services
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cydoor

The problem being is that they are there, I know they are there, Norton A/V knows they are there, but I can only find up to *******\Software\ - I can't find the 'Cydoor' part of the path.

Please - all suggestions and advice are appreciated and at this point necessary.

Thanx all.

[Nokia]

open regedit, then press F3, type Cydoor into the find box and see if any entries come up. If they dont come up then they definaltly aint there!

[Algaen]

Shouldn't a piece of software like Ad-aware or Spybot remove the keys for you without you having to grind through the registry? Maybe I'm wrong, but give it a try. Good luck!

[thehorse13]

Yes, removal tools like SpyBot S&D, AdAware or a number of other less popular spyware scanners will do the job much faster and with a greater degree of accuracy than manually scrubbing the registry. Not that manual removal wont work, but I'm sure that spending your time on more constructive projects would be preferred.

:)

[gn0min0mic0n]

Perhaps a program like RegClean or JV16 PowerTools will find and remove these entries.

[MatrixArchitect]

Maybe the files are programmed as hidden files.

[D0pp139an93r]

Running both Ad-Aware and SpybotSD will take care of most any spyware problem you have, without the obvious risk of doing it manually.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://security.kolla.de/

[taudette]

I had spybot S & d, and it worked great but didn't catch everything that Reg Mechanic did.

It cleaned up nice!

My two cents

:D

[Agent_Steal]

People have already given you very good advice. If you have some spare time you can give these links a read :

[1] Advertising Spyware: CyDoor CD_Load.exe and CD_Clint.dll (http://cexx.org/cydoor.htm)


Norton A/V knows they are there


[2] Norton Removal Instructions : Adware.Cydoor (http://sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.cydoor.html)