Not another Norton Triumph...

It appears that simply installing Norton on a PC isn’t enough to get rid of aurora. Neither is using the latest versions of adaware and no-adaware.

So far, other than slowing my machine down quite noticeably, and forcing me to surrender to certain applications’ insistence on net access, because of the constant warning pop-ups that prevent me from doing anything else, I’m not sure that Norton has delivered any benefit.

The next stage in my attempts to get rid of Aurora is to follow this procedure:

1. Start computer in safe mode.
2. search your computer for ceres.dll and delete it.
3. search for buddy.exe and delete it.
4. run a registry editor. I just use the standard regedit
5. search the entire registry for "ceres" but don't delete everything that comes up, only the entries that have "ceres" or "ceresdll" exclusively, so don't delete stuff like TWCEResources (example), they will come up because they have "CERes"
6. Search the entire registry for buddy.exe and delete away.
7. Restart your computer and you should have killed it!

Before I do, however, can one of you techie types confirm for me that ‘regedit’ is a windows application hidden away somewhere in XP, or do I have to go elsewhere for it?

Any thoughts welcomed.

Not another Norton Triumph...

It appears that simply installing Norton on a PC isn’t enough to get rid of aurora. Neither is using the latest versions of adaware and no-adaware.

So far, other than slowing my machine down quite noticeably, and forcing me to surrender to certain applications’ insistence on net access, because of the constant warning pop-ups that prevent me from doing anything else, I’m not sure that Norton has delivered any benefit.

The next stage in my attempts to get rid of Aurora is to follow this procedure:

1. Start computer in safe mode.
2. search your computer for ceres.dll and delete it.
3. search for buddy.exe and delete it.
4. run a registry editor. I just use the standard regedit
5. search the entire registry for "ceres" but don't delete everything that comes up, only the entries that have "ceres" or "ceresdll" exclusively, so don't delete stuff like TWCEResources (example), they will come up because they have "CERes"
6. Search the entire registry for buddy.exe and delete away.
7. Restart your computer and you should have killed it!

Before I do, however, can one of you techie types confirm for me that ‘regedit’ is a windows application hidden away somewhere in XP, or do I have to go elsewhere for it?

Any thoughts welcomed.