Re: Rogue software

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:44:35 -0600

Download Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition and scan your PC for the presence of spyware:
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button

Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=827315

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm 

-- 
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart!  Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
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 "Tim Brown" wrote:
| One of our users has managed to install a web search engine from the
| internet which creates icons on the desktop and adds itself to menus etc.  I
| have found the program in Add/Remove programs but it will not uninstall and
| further if I delete the icons they are reinstalled again.  Apart from
| hacking the registry does any one know of a way to uninstall these types of
| programs?  Perhaps there is a 3rd party software package that will do this!
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