Re: Virus/Worms

From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:23:59 +0100

Hi

The following programs will check your system for spyware:

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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"paulcat24" <paulcat24@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5499EB38-A349-4A0C-94F0-A29C1CFA0B66@microsoft.com...
| I have recently acquired the w32.spybot.worm which norton antivirus was
unable to clean or quarentine. I also noticed I had the W32/Gaobot.worm
which was quarentined. I found instructions on how to get rid of the worm,
do I need to do anything with the Gaobot.gen worm? Also I noticed everytime
I am online my homepage  redirects to another page after so many seconds and
before the page is displayed I receive a warning about downloading something
from mediatickets I decline and then I receive another popup reading that I
must click ok to download. I have to cancel this 3 or 4 times to get rid of
it and then it happens again after so many seconds. Is this related to the
spybot worm? if not how do I get rid of it?

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