Hey everyone,
Has anyone heard of this Spyware? It's a Trojan that hooks itself to your explorer.exe file. I was one of the unfortunite people to get it. And no one could find a way to get rid of it! The only way everyone said is to just reinstall Windows. But, I refused to lose all of my stuff and after many long hours and trying program after program, I finally found a way to get rid of it. And, I even made a little site to tell what to do.
http://www.freewebs.com/picaflic/
HOPE IT HELPS!!!
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NSIS Media
Started by PicAFlic, Jul 29 2006 04:19 PM
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 01:37 PM
Amir Szekely aka Kichik (NSIS developer) has made up-to-date NSIS Media Remover. I haven't been infected by this 100% evil pest, but if I would, Kichiks NSIS Media Remover would be my first attempt to remove it. (As NSIS developer Kichik haves special hatred against NSIS Media. 
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http://kichik.net/20...-media-remover/
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 03:10 PM
yeah i had it for a while,it drove me insane.i thought it was some problem with IE so i went over to mozilla,where i still had the problem.only good thing to come from it was that i fell in love with mozilla.
i know this sound really simple,i read it online when i did a google search for getting rid of NSIS thing,but if u go to control panel > add/remove programs, you shud see it there,and be able to get rid of it.then delete the folder from "program files"
i know this sound really simple,i read it online when i did a google search for getting rid of NSIS thing,but if u go to control panel > add/remove programs, you shud see it there,and be able to get rid of it.then delete the folder from "program files"
Who watches The Watchmen?
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Posted 15 January 2007 - 10:58 AM
Yes NSIS Media comes with uninstaller like many other spy/adware...Kichik blog:
"It shows an uninstaller in the Add/Remove control panel, but as long as the carrier program is installed, it’ll just come back."
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"The uninstaller, as you might have guessed, doesn’t do much. It creates a new value called OptOut in HKLM\Software\NSIS\Media, unregisters the third DLL and finally deletes its along with the uninstaller. It also deletes a shell hook, according to the GUID found in the clsid value under its registry key."
So if you just used the uninstaller don't be surprised if it comes back.
Also keep in mind that NSIS Media is in no way related to NSIS. Except the intentionally misleading name.
