OT: Ad-ware/spyware or trick to remove crap 2005-04-27 - By todd akita
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Bernard --
I feel your pain. The last time this happened to me I downloaded
hijackthis, ran it, and then rebooted in to safemode and cleaned
out whatever didn't jibe. Also while you're in safe mode wipe out
whatever's in the system temp directory, and clean out the temporary
internet files, a lot of those things tend to wind up in there and also in
the winnt/system32 directory, and will sometimes create folders for
themselves in the program files directory as well.
Anyway you can get hijackthis here --
http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html
It's a pretty neat tool, try running it and you may be surprised by what
you find.
I'd also try downloading and installing the latest version of lavasoft's
AdAware, it's free and is quite useful for cleaning out those things too
though the most stubborn things of this sort need to be rooted out in
safe mode kind of manually.
good luck,
-T
Bernard Lebel wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I never use Internet Explorer, even my XSI help files lauch with
>Firefox. However yesterday I launched IE by accident, and since then I
>get a IE window popping up on my machine with an advertising every 5
>minutes. IE is not even running, something else is launching it. The
>window does not have the IE interface, just a plain IE window....
>Anti-virus and firewall does not stop it, and the free adware soft I
>tried did not get rid of it.
>
>Anyone has a good software or a trick to recommend for this $#@!?! problem?
>
>Thanks
>Bernard
>
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