GenoPro Adware Removal

(genopro.com)

You will need two tools:

1. InCtrl5  Developed by PcUser magazine in Australia

           -this proggie will tell you where the install utility installs or updates files, records data in the Registry, and possibly updates INI files or essential text files.

2. Resource Hacker  is a utility to view, modify, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables.

#Note if you use Adware to locate the web3000 spy ware, it will find most traces of it in your system, but when you try to remove it with Ad-ware your computer will crash; the culprit?  > w3knet.dll <

So now you have the tools to hack this program lets go ;)

You can install the GenoPro program using InCtrl5 to see exactly where web300 is installed on your machine, locate the files and registry entries named below and nuke them ;)

Removing Web3000

Start>Run "regedit" (without the quotes) find and delete the offending registry folders:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\web3000.com
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Web3000 Network
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\web3000.com

Delete the registry values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "W3kNetwork" 

Search the registry (edit>find) and delete w3k (and variants you see)

Delete these files:
c:\WINDOWS\W3KNet.w3k
c:\WINDOWS\W3KNet2.num
c:\WINDOWS\W3KNetP.w3k
c:\WINDOWS\w3kselfinst.exe
c:\windows\instnetmgr.dll 

~and at least 4 other files created after instillation; all beginning with w3k (but not w3knet.dll, we will get to that next)

Reboot in safe mode (restart computer and keep pushing F8) and delete
c:\WINDOWS\w3knet.dll

Reboot normally: 

Now go to start>run and enter "msconfig" without the quotes. Click the Startup tab and un-check "W3k Network" (dont worry if w3k network is not listed)

Search the registry again for w3k and delete all references to this key .

And Now Genealogy Detective

Run regedit and delete the value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DanMorin.Com\GenoPro "AdvertisingBanner.GenealogyDetective"

Navigate through the "Dialog" folders until you find the advertisement dialog, mine was 1033 in folder 1545. Delete 1033 and File>save.

Run Genopro.exe (not genopro_original.exe) There you are :) Not too difficult eh?

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