Re: Removing Unwanted programs

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From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 05:47:51 +0100

Hi

Try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Also see the following link:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm 

-- 
Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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"Basharat A. Javaid" <bjavaid@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:%23nqZM5eSEHA.3932@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| In the process of looking for cheap fares, I ended up at SideStep.com's
| website.  I now find that they installed their program or something an
some
| other programs got installed.   As a result:
|
| 1.  I am getting pop up Ads from BargainBuddy.
|
| 2.  Item called "Search Assistant" has been added to the Taskbar's Toolbar
| and whenever I start my computer 'Search the Web" address appears on the
| Taskbar even after I have unchecked it on the Taskbar's Toolbar!
|
| When I clicked on the "Search the Web" it took me to site called
BlazeFind.
| So I searched for BlazeFind on my computer and the following files showed
| up: msxml.ini, msxml.info, msxml.dll and msxml.Dat.  I deleted these
files,
| restarted the computer but still the Search Assistant is residing on the
| Taskbar's Toolbar.
|
| 3. The Quicklauch is moved to left side of the taskbar.  I manually move
it
| to the right but when I restart the computer, it goes back to the left.
|
| I went through the Add/Remove Programs and deleted the
suspicious/unfamiliar
| programs but still no joy.
|
|
| How do I get read of this menace?
|
|
| -- 
| Basharat Javaid.
|
|

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