>Does anyone have a quick fix to help me completely remove this malware
I have had to (several times) use the Outlook repair function on the “notsoHELPful” menu tab.
Some caveats. Backup. You may want the old crud after you see the new crud you’re left with.
(1) Make sure you have your distribution media and serial number handy — you may muck things up worse if you don’t (I did);
(2) Nuke all the “extra” crud installed Options>Other>Advanced and nuke all in “add in”, “reminder”, and “com add in”.
(3) Uninstall everything Plaxo, LinkedIn, and any other Outlook add ins from ADD/REMOVE program entry;
(4) from the start>run>msconfig ensure that you don’t have anything automatically helping you that you don’t really understand.
Wish everything good bye. You did backup didn’t you?
(I had one acquaintance who blamed LookOut, and it was a disguised corrupt registry and, when the hard disk burped at the wrong time, his data went to data heaven welcomed by 72 disk drives that ever had an data! My acquaintance had NOT backed up in a while either. He changed jobs soon after that. Probably got promoted with more money.)
THEN run repair from OUTLOOK HELP.
Reboot cold TWICE. (Once is not necessarily enough!?!)
Then sacrifice a chicken, examine the entrails, and send the remains to Bill Gates or Vincent.
It’s ugly.
One thing I have found that repeated COLD REBOOTS (power down and wait 5 full excruciating minutes) allows WINDOZE and LOOKOUT to clear queues and caches and who knows what else allowing the stupid thing to run correctly).
Argh! I’m in pain just thinking about what you’re going thru.
YMMV FAIWWYPFI FWIW
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