Re: Adware removal - help!!

From: ~~~Cindy~~~ (itz_a_dreamer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: 8 Jul 2004 15:32:40 -0700

Hey,

   I feel your pain! I work for an ISP so I deal with Spyware, Adware,
and Malware every day. It definatly gets quite anoying! I would do as
the other person suggested and download Ad-aware and Spybot Search And
Distroy. I'm not a big fan of SpySweeper myself. But I highly suggest
Ad-aware and Spybot. What one does not find the other will. If you are
running a program like Kazaa (not Kazaa light) this program causes
major spyware problems. They will swear up and down they don't have
spyware but trust me...they do.

   If you can find another program to download music off of the net
that would be your best bet. But, if you choose to stay with Kazaa and
either of these programs (Ad-Aware or Spybot) finds any files that are
called Kazaa do not delete them.

   If you don't have Kazaa then dis-regard my last paragraph. :o)

- Andrea

"AK" <false@xxx.com> wrote in message news:<cck3ap$eto$1@news.freedom2surf.net>...
> Hi
>
> I hope you can help me. In the last couple of days my firewall has been
> bombarded with requests to access the internet from what appear to be
> adware. Examples are Bargain Buddy, Lycos sidesearch, Clear Search, nCase,
> internet optimizer, and the list goes on. One even removed my google
> toolbar and installed it's own search bar. I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. How has this got onto my computer? My firewall has only picked them
> up when they tried to access the internet. My virus checker is up to date
> (norton).
>
> 2. How on earth can I get rid of them. I have installed "Spy Sweeper"
> that picks them up and deletes them, but each time I boot up the computer
> low and behold they are all back again creating havoc. Obviously spy
> sweeper is not doing a very good job of getting rid of them. It's a free
> program so that probably explains it, but before I fork out for a pukka one
> I would like some advice as to which one?
>
> 3. Is there any other way (apart from getting some software) of removing
> these little buggers??
>
> Thanks friends
>
> Angela

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