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Remove Look2Me Adware
About Look2Me
Look2Me is an adware that generates popup ad windows. It also records
web address you visits and sent it to it scontrolling server. Since
Look2Me is implemented as a system extension, it is hard to remove
by simply deleting dll files and registry entries.
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How to Remove Look2Me?
Follow these removal instructions to remove Look2Me from your computer:
- Click Start > Run, type 'regedit' and press Ok to open Registry
Editor.
- Open Task Manager (press CTRL+ALT+DEL), in the process list, select
'explorer.exe' and terminate it. Repeat this step until you kill
all the running instances of 'explorer.exe' . Start Menu, Task Bar,
System tray should disappear then.
- Press ALT + Tab and select Registry Editor.
- Find and delete the following keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{DDFFA75A-E81D-4454-89FC-B9FD0631E726}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion
\ ShellExtensions \ Approved \ {DDFFA75A-E81D-4454-89FC-B9FD0631E726}
- Reboot the computer (Press cTRL+ALT+DEL)
- Open the System directory( By default, this is C:\Windows\System
(Windows 95/98/Me), C:\WINNT\System32 (Windows NT/2000), or C:\Windows\System32
(Windows XP)), and delete all the files listed below or the the files
looks similar:
msg{1e253d5d-6add-4fe9-829c-f51038158be5}0110.dll
msg{1e253d5d-6add-4fe9-829c-f51038158be5}0111.dll
msg{46b08877-2be4-4f35-8e77-034c2142321c}0115.dll
msg{5bef546a-e3c1-489c-996a-c9688d985ae0}0110.dll
msg{5bef546a-e3c1-489c-996a-c9688d985ae0}0111.dll
msg{63de1ad9-f0c6-4dac-886a-5a9707b0d23c}0110.dll
msg{63de1ad9-f0c6-4dac-886a-5a9707b0d23c}0111.dll
msg{93396c3f-aea3-4ac0-bb55-81f0f0414a24}0113.dll
msg{9d4f5b7c-2a4b-46c5-99a7-4c775b688d45}0110.dll
msg{9d4f5b7c-2a4b-46c5-99a7-4c775b688d45}0111.dll
msg{aac5700f-954a-47b7-9746-871ae8e634e4}0115.dll
msg{b9a9ac6a-2cc9-4a24-a250-bea974703ff8}0110.dll
msg{b9a9ac6a-2cc9-4a24-a250-bea974703ff8}0111.dll
msg{d331b768-d6da-41e8-a7b6-78ed724126c0}0115.dll
msg{e01b47a7-a499-4fee-83c2-b0684ca28e6b}0115.dll
msg{e8d8ffef-30a4-4df1-a618-e0599a0d0a15}0110.dll
- Click Start > Settings > Control Panel, double click Internet
Option icons. Select Programs tab and click Reset Web Settings button.
Look2me also provide an uninstaller on their website, check the folowing
link (we don't provide a direct link, please copy and paste it to your
browser address bar):
http://www.look2me.com/cgi-bin/UnInstaller
( Thanks Michael Palmer for providing this information)
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