Re: Infected

From: Jose Francisco (almach_at_onvol.net)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:41:01 +0200

Greetings,

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

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

[Originally posted by a MVP]

Thanks and best of luck! 

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Jose Francisco
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"Dave" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:287a401c4644d$b98b73c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I believe my system is infected with various spy/adware
> bugaboos.  I can't fix or delete them.  I've tried Norton
> AV and Trend Micro PC-cillin.  It's a XP Home from Best
> Buy (3 months old) with NO operating system CDs provided.
> Was considering formatting the C drive and installing XP
> Pro.  Present "Home" version has "System Recovery" which
> resides by itself on "D" drive.  Have run that 3 times
> with bugs still present.  Question is - can I do what I
> stated above safely or is there another option not so
> drastic?  Thanks.
>

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