Turns out that zoom.com is part of Zone Alarm and once I moved the zone.com folder under Zone Alarm all was well again. I suppose just deleting zone.com might have accomplished the same thing though the problem had persisted even after I had uninstalled zone.com. Thanks for your help. Jerry. Whatever is causing this should be stoppable with Autoruns.
If you were never aware of installing this bunch of games, chances are there is other adware/spyware/trojans on your system. Recommend a full scan in safe mode after downloading, installing, and updating each of the following: http://www.snipurl.com/msantispy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html http://www.ewido.net/en/ -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Guritzky Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Zoom.com Is there or was there any Zoom modem associated with this machine? If there is a Zoom modem installed, what happens when you remove it and reboot? *** No Zoom modems present. What does "zoom.com starts up" mean? a) Internet Explorer opens with a home page at zoom.com b) A program window called zoom.com opens c) something else: _____________________________ *** Opens up with a page full of icons with zoom.com across the top If not (a), what does it look like? Menus? Describe. Buttons? Which ones? etc. *** It actually looks like files look when one opens Internet Explorer. What is it that shows less icons than before? a) the zoom.com window b) the list of Add/Remove programs ***** Zoom.com opens up showing one icon now that I uninstalled zoom.com, used to be 6 or 7. **** Zoom.com is made up of a bunch of games. Jerry. -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
