What place does windows store information of anything?

I have 5 porn dialers in my c:\restore\temp folder and I can't delete them. I use McAffee Online and AVG and they both report them as virus, but can't delete or do anything with them. Ad-Aware and Spybot both find them, but can't do anything with them either. I have over 27,000 files in the Restore\Temp folder.

How can I get rid of the dialers and most of the restore files???

This question was answered on November 20, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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The registry it might be a way to remove this files Before edit the registry, backup! Also write down on a piece of paper the file that are in the c:\restore\temp folder Then do the following:

Click Start, and then click Run (The Run dialog box appears.)

Type regedit

Then click OK (The Registry Editor opens.)

Delete the following registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\-the filename.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\-the porn dialer file

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Coulomb\-the porn dialer file

or:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\-the porn dialer file

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\-the porn dialer file

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Coulomb\-the porn dialer file

d Exit the Registry Editor.

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Posted by Student of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on November 20, 2003

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