Pop Up Ads - rpun & s4xlkx

by SamLentine / October 29, 2005 6:40 AM PDT

Help!

Does anyone receive pop ups due to an rpun & s4xlkx command in the msconfig startup tab using Windows XP Professional?

This is what I see in the tab:

Startup Item Command
s4xlkx C:\WINDOWS\system32\s4xlkx.exe reg_run
rpun C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\rpun.exe

What I do to temporarily get rid of them is uncheck them and use a program msconfigcleanup to delete them. Then I'll run my Adaware & Registry Cleaner programs along with Yahoo's Anti-Spy to clean them out (In Safe mode also), but they'll reappear; not immediately, but something triggers them to reappear, so I think they're camouflaged somehow so they can't get removed?. I've even used regedit to delete any value that contains "s4xlkx" or "rpun", but they still reappear. I can't come up with any searches showing forums with people who talk about these 2 files so I need some other suggestions? Are there other websites I can post this problem on? Can anyone seriously dig up scoop on this because I can't find these files on any search engine. It's driving me nuts!

Help!
Sam

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Hi Sam, can you post your question in the

by Lee Koo (ADMIN) CNET staff/forum admin / October 31, 2005 2:19 AM PST

In reply to: Pop Up Ads - rpun & s4xlkx

Virus & Security Alert forum: http://reviews.cnet.com/5204-6132-0.html?forumID=32&start=0

This forum is for feedback for the forums itself.

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-Lee

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