Hi Julia,
I just wanted to let you know that I figured out a solution that worked for me; that is to get double-click access to my drives and get rid of 'Hacked by UC' in the IE title bar. Anyway, here are the steps I followed that got the problem fixed on my computer. However, these instructions are kind of long, so it might take awhile to get through all the steps.
One last thing before I get into the instructions to fix the problem: You might want to save this page to your hard drive, to your My Documents folder. The reason I say this is that if you have the page saved to your hard drive you will be able to view it while you are in safe-mode. Also, if you have a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, you can copy this post and paste it into a document(and save to the My Documents folder)and that should make it a bit easier to locate this post, than if you use your web browser and open the webpage, although you can do either. (Just anything to view these instructions in safe-mode - they're quite lengthy) Well, I hope my instructions help you get that nasty problem fixed - I wish you luck!
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If you see ‘Hacked by UC’ in the title bar of Internet Explorer, you may have noticed that you cannot open the drives in Windows Explorer by double-clicking on the drives.
If you are experiencing this problem, and you need immediate access to a drive, you can safely open it by right-clicking on the drive you want to open, and then click Open.
The reason I say ‘safely’ is that if you double-click a drive to open it, and it doesn’t open, it runs a script in the root of that drive called ‘uc.vbs’, which is referenced in the autorun.inf file.
Now, let’s proceed to fix the problem:
(Note: Press Enter after each line, and do not type the punctuation)
1. Restart the computer and go into safe-mode.
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Windows Task Manager.
3. Click the Processes tab. Look for a process called wscript.exe, and terminate it if it’s running. There may be more than one instance of this process so be sure you terminate all of them if there’s more than one.
4. Now you need to show the hidden files and folders, if they’re not already shown.
To do this follow these steps:
• Open My Computer
• Go Tools | Folder Options and click the View tab
• Click the radio button Show Hidden Files and Folders
• Scroll down if necessary and find the check box Hide Protected Operating System Files, and if you see a check mark remove it
5. Open the Command Prompt
6. Type ‘del %systemroot%\uc.vbs’. Don’t worry if you get a ‘File not found’ error
7. Go to the root of the C drive and type ‘attrib –r –h –s C:\uc.vbs’
8. Type del uc.vbs.
9. Type attrib –r –h –s C:\autorun.inf
10. Type del autorun.inf
Repeat steps 6 through 9 for all hard drives or hard drive partitions that you’re having trouble with, and replace C with the appropriate drive letter, and remember to press Enter after every line.
Now, Go to the Start menu, click Run, type ‘regedit’ and then click OK.
This takes you into the Registry Editor. What you’re going to do here is remove the following values from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\UC
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title
HKCR\vbsfile\DefaultIcon
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\UC
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window
Title
When you’re finished deleting the above registry values navigate to the top of the registry, and then go Edit | Find, and then type ‘uc.vbs’. When you’re finished click Find Now.
Furthermore, don’t delete the string value itself – Here’s what I recommend: open the string value(which is in the right pane) and then delete everything in it, and then click OK. Press F3 when you’re ready to go to the next occurrence.
Keep doing this until you have emptied all the string values containing references to ‘uc.vbs’. When you have finished going through the whole registry, you’ll want to be sure you haven’t missed any occurrences.
Navigate back to the top of the registry and click on My Computer to highlight it. You want to be sure you’re searching the whole registry.
Now Go to the edit menu and click Find. In the text box make sure you see uc.vbs, and then click Find Next. What we’re doing is a sweep of the entire registry to make sure we have deleted every reference to uc.vbs. I’m not certain that it’s safe to delete the string value itself because I haven’t tested it, so we’re staying on the safe side.
If you come across any string value with this filename, open it, delete the contents of the string value. You can do this quickly by placing the insertion point at the beginning of the text field and then pressing Shift+End. This selects everything in the string value. Press Delete, then click OK. After you have done this press F3 to see if there are any more of these references.
After you have come to the end of the registry, navigate back to the top of the registry and then do another search. What you’re after is to go through the whole registry without finding any occurrences of uc.vbs.
When you’re finished, restart the computer.
After you’ve restarted the computer open Windows Explorer (My Computer) and then double-click on the icon for your hard drive. You should now be in your hard drive’s directory.
Well, you’re all finished! That was quite a journey, but if you did everything correctly I believe that you will again have double-click access to your drives as well as be rid of ‘Hacked by UC’ in the IE title bar.