Stubborn Registry Key

[~BD~]

Laptop with XP Home SP3

Using CCleaner to check registry I'm left with this key:-

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\{80b8c23c-16e0-4cd8-bbc3-cecec9a78b79}

CCleaner cannot remove it. I've also tried RegAssasin (1.03) available
from Malwarebytes and that product cannot remove the key either.

Any clues as to why I cannot delete this key?

--
Dave

[David H. Lipman]

From: "~BD~" <.BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk>

| Laptop with XP Home SP3

| Using CCleaner to check registry I'm left with this key:-

| HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\{80b8c23c-16e0-4cd8-bbc3-cecec9a78b79}

| CCleaner cannot remove it. I've also tried RegAssasin (1.03) available
| from Malwarebytes and that product cannot remove the key either.

| Any clues as to why I cannot delete this key?

Are you using Avira AntiVir ?


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[~BD~]

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:ht8p8301jm6@news7.newsguy.com...
|| Are you using Avira AntiVir ?

Yes, David, I am.

The said key *was* removed in 'safe' mode using CCleaner.

--
Dave BD

[David H. Lipman]

From: "~BD~" <.BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk>


|| Are you using Avira AntiVir ?

| Yes, David, I am.

| The said key *was* removed in 'safe' mode using CCleaner.

Yeah, it BELONGED to Avira and shouldn't have been removed.

Thus the problem of so-called Registry cleaning.


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[~BD~]

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:ht90l8029m2@news3.newsguy.com...
| From: "~BD~" <.BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk>
|
|
||| Are you using Avira AntiVir ?
|
|| Yes, David, I am.
|
|| The said key *was* removed in 'safe' mode using CCleaner.
|
| Yeah, it BELONGED to Avira and shouldn't have been removed.
|
| Thus the problem of so-called Registry cleaning.

Interesting!

Everything still seems to be working.

Is there something specific I should check now?

--
BD

[David H. Lipman]

From: "~BD~" <.BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk>

|||| Are you using Avira AntiVir ?

||| Yes, David, I am.

||| The said key *was* removed in 'safe' mode using CCleaner.

|| Yeah, it BELONGED to Avira and shouldn't have been removed.

|| Thus the problem of so-called Registry cleaning.

| Interesting!

| Everything still seems to be working.

| Is there something specific I should check now?

No.

The key you deleted is for the internal use of AntiVir and its function is not published.
However there was NEVER a "need" to remove it and that's what is important here.

You didn't ask "what is it" and "should I delete it". You just posted you couldn't remove
it and wanted to.

In this case the result was relatively benign. The result *could* have been more
detrimental and that is why so-called Registry cleaning is not suggested and is frowned
upon.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Max Wachtel]

On22-May-2010 in the land of alt.privacy.spyware,~BD~ blurted out this
little ditty:

>
> "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
> news:ht90l8029m2@news3.newsguy.com...
> | From: "~BD~" <.BoaterDave@hotmail.co.uk>
> >
> >
> > > > Are you using Avira AntiVir ?
> >
> > > Yes, David, I am.
> >
> > > The said key was removed in 'safe' mode using CCleaner.
> >
> > Yeah, it BELONGED to Avira and shouldn't have been removed.
> >
> > Thus the problem of so-called Registry cleaning.
>
> Interesting!
>
> Everything still seems to be working.
>
> Is there something specific I should check now?

Have you ever heard the expression "leave well enough alone"?

google for RegSeeker. It will find lots of things for you to mess up!

Now-google "restoring the registry". Learn how to make a registry
backup and how to restore your system using it. Or just give your pc to
someone who doesn't have one and use your mac.
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[David Kaye]

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:

>Yeah, it BELONGED to Avira and shouldn't have been removed.
>Thus the problem of so-called Registry cleaning.

Amen. To reiterate: The only registry cleaner I trust is CCleaner. The rest
truly frighten me.