Re: Gator and other problems
From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 04/22/04
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:48:45 -0600
Greetings --
To deal with issues caused by any sort of "adware" and/or
"spyware,"such as Gator, Comet Cursors, Smiley Central, Xupiter,
Bonzai Buddy, or KaZaA, and their remnants, that you've deliberately
(but without understanding the consequences) installed, two products
that are quite effective (at finding and removing this type of
scumware) are Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.de and SpyBot Search &
Destroy from www.safer-networking.org/. Both have free versions.
It's even possible to use SpyBot Search & Destroy to "immunize" your
system against most future intrusions. I use both and generally
perform manual scans every week or so to clean out cookies, etc.
Additionally, manual removal instructions for the most common
varieties of scumware are available here:
PC Hell Spyware and Adware Removal Help
http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml
Bruce Chambers
-- Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "Chris B" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AE2D60F9-99A5-487D-8D87-A97376B25A59@microsoft.com... > My firewall poped up a message that says would I like to let Gator > connect to the internet. If I say no it keeps popping up. I have > tried get rid of Gator, but it wont let me. When I do a search on > Gator I find the folder and the program to remove it. When I click > on it, it says go to add ot remove programs under control panel. I > go their and their is no gator. Is their another way to get rid of > it? I have tried to delete the folder, but it wont let me. > Also, my favorites has all these sites I didn't add. I keep > deleting them, but everytime I restart my computer they show back > up. Does anyone know how to fix this? > And last but not least... When I try to delete kazaa or yahoo it > wont. It says it's missing a file. So i redownload the program and > tried to delete it, but it keeps saying it's missing a file. > > If you have any ideas on how to fix any of these problems please let > me know! > > Thanks!!!
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