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for some reasons registers WMP to launch on system start-up – possibly to cover its own tracks?

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for some reasons registers WMP to launch on system start-up – possibly to cover its own tracks?

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LavaSoft AdAware anti-spyware software (or SpyBot anti-spy software, or the dedicated CoolWebSearch/iedll.exe killer program), which will clean up iedll.exe. Then you will want to go to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run” in regedit.exe. There you will likely find a value name entitled “loader” (OR MAYBE SOMETHING ELSE – malicious software did this to your machine, so they try to hide themselves). If this has the data value pointing to wmplayer.exe, delete this registry value. If AFTER CLEANING YOUR SYSTEM OF SPYWARE you still are having this problem, you should be able to use MSConfig to figure out where WMP is being loaded at, and turn it off.

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