HELP!!!

marine_18 · Cadet Joined: May 24, 2004 Posts: 3 Location: USA

I was using Win Patrol and kept getting the alert that Wtoolsb.exe was trying to get loaded in my startup and kept telling it no. I got very frustrated and deleted these items from the registry now non of my shortcuts work and I can't open Windows Explorer or anything. Does anyone know what I might do to remedy this situation short of Re-Installing Windows XP?

Crying or Very sad

magictouch · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 12:17 am Post subject:

Is it too late for system restore? Wtoolsb.exe is a part of Wintools! try uninstall Wintools from - control panel- add/remove programs

marine_18 · Cadet Joined: May 24, 2004 Posts: 3 Location: USA

marine_18 · Cadet Joined: May 24, 2004 Posts: 3 Location: USA

Luckily I was able to do a Restore from msconfig

Now, my problem is back again. WtoolsA.exe, and Wtoolsb.exe keep trying to install on my system. WinPatrol stops them for installing but I get a warning every 5 minutes. The Evil A$$hole who wrote this garbage (Wintools) should be shot, or tar and feathered.

I went to Add/Remove programs and tried to remove Wintools[v2] but get an error that says other adware running please remove it first??? I removed the previous entry of Wintools and my computer Restarted itself. Any other ideas?

Thanks

maxam66 · Cadet Joined: Mar 04, 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Canada

Found this:

First go to add/remove programs and see if there is an entry for WinTools. If so, uninstall it. If not then do the following:
Go to start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services Look for "WinTools for IE service" in the right pane. If you find it, right click on it. Stop it by pressing the stop button. Then disable it by clicking on the startup type drop down and selecting "Disable"

Then right click on the taskbar and open taskmanager.
Go to applications and/or processes and end task on the following (WToolsS.exe should already be stopped from the above step):
WToolsA.exe
WToolsS.exe
WSup.exe

Then delete the following files (Boot to safe mode if you have to). Just open explorer and browse to the location of the files, right click on them and delete them.

File C:\Program Files\Common files\WinTools\WToolsA.exe
File C:\Program Files\Common files\WinTools\WToolsS.exe
File C:\Program Files\Common files\WinTools\WSup.exe
Folder C:\Program Files\Common files\WinTools
File C:\WINDOWS\Belt.exe

magictouch · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject:

Or else, see if you can use this site: http://www.pchell.com/support/wintools.shtml

You are welcome to post a log file: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Unzip to a permanent folder.
Scan, save log, and post log.


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