Re: Spyware

From: siljaline (siljaline_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:39:32 -0500

"EmilyBean" wrote:
> My laptop is really messed up, I ran adaware this morning and it seems like
> the main thing is "myway" but who knows. It seems to have uninstalled my
> norton, and it won't let me install again. It also crashes my ICQ. I had the
> "mysearch" toolbar show up which I have gotten rid of. I've ran adaware and
> quarantined everything it found but nothing has changed. I also did a system
> restore to a few days ago but that didn't change it either. I don't want to
> have to reformat since I just had the same problem on my PC a week ago and I
> had to reformat that.
> (laptop is XP)

Run 'HijackThis', FAQ & info here: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
Post your log here: http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30

Silj 

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