Mike
Wed Apr 21 20:09:23 CDT 2004
You are playing host to a parasite as EGNSENGINE.DLL is part of Gator.
Go to Start, Run, enter MSConfig in the box and click OK, then click the
Startup tab and uncheck CMESys. Reboot
Also check your Startup folder for GStartup which possibly points to:
C:\RECYCLED\NPROTECT\00001132.exe /startup.
If so remove GStartup as well.
This might be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free Ad-Aware
6.0 from Lavasoft (
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and also
SpyBot (
http://www.safer-networking.org/) and scan your system for and remove
all unwanted parasites, adware and spyware that might be hiding on your PC.
Just is case the problem is due to a new version of the CoolWebSearch parasite
you might want to download and run the CWShredder which targets that specific
parasite. Unfortunately neither AdAware or SpyBot seem to be able as yet to
fully detect all the various versions of the CoolWebSearch parasite as it
keeps changing. For more details of the CoolWebSearch parasite see
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html.
CWShredder, merijn's removal tool, can be downloaded from either:
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip
or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Other useful tools include BHOCaptor (
http://www.xcaptor.org) that checks for
unwanted Browser Help Objects and SpywareBlaster
(
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
sarsen <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> when I turn on my computer a error message pops up that
> says "A required.dll file, EGNSENGINE.DLL, was not found.
> anyone know what this means or how to fix it?