How do I clean up User.dat and Rbbad.cab on a Win98 PC?

Discussion in 'Software' started by so far so good, Apr 12, 2004.

  1. so far so good

    so far so good Private E-2

    Hi all--

    Brand-new guy here, so I hope I'm doing the right things in the right place.

    My son had some friends stay overnight on Friday, and it looks like they got into some porn sites. I would like to clean out the computer (It is a Windows98 machine). I have been to "My Computer-Control Panel-Internet Options" to delete cookies, delete files, and clear history.

    But when I do a "Find-Files or Folders" from the Start button, I still find references in WINDOWS\User.dat and WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP\Rbbad.cab. What can I do to clean out these two files?
     
  2. jujet84

    jujet84 Master Sergeant

  3. alanc

    alanc MajorGeek

    USER.DAT = part of the registry. You don't wanna mess with that.
    Rbbad.cab = an automatic registry backup (containing errors). Ignore it.

    The above suggestions are good advice, I would also suggest checking for spyware:

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25834
     
  4. so far so good

    so far so good Private E-2

    Thanks for the suggestions

    Thanks for the replies and suggestions. I will let you know how things go.
     
  5. so far so good

    so far so good Private E-2

    OK.

    Housecall found no viruses (I have AVG set to run daily automatically, but it's good to get a second opinion).

    CCleaner found and removed a bunch of stuff.

    HijackThis found some things, but nothing looked suspicious to me.

    (I do have AdAware and Spybot S&D on the machine, and ran them yesterday.)

    When I do my "Find-files or folders", however, it is still finding bad stuff. Sorry I didn't say it before, but I am finding the stuff when I use the "Containing text" option, not the"Named" option.

    I keep seeing something called (going from my memory) "Register Mechanic" advertised on this site. Is that something that could help?
     

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