Re: Unwanted items on screen when IE is used.

I have used Spybot and it does not get rid of the items, either on the
screeen or in favorites. The source of the problem on the screen seems to be
http://lop.com/passthrough/newpass2.html. To make matters worse, when it
appears I am not able to get rid of it by clicking the box in the right hand
corner.

"Jon Kennedy" wrote:

> This may be caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
> your system. Use Ad-Aware and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to remove it.
>
> Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
> Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
> Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
> http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php
>
> Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
> anything found breaks it -
>
> Winsock repair tools:
> LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
> Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
> http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
> LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
> http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip
>
> More information here:
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/
> http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.htm
> http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ - runs a little script when loading page to
> check for common parasites
>
> If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
> section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
> Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
> needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
> causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
> useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
> essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
> http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
> Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
> down the culprit.
>
> Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
> How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256
>
> If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
> spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
> HijackThis direct download:
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
> Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
> Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
> parasite experts:
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
> Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html
>
> Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
> CWShredder direct download:
> http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
>
> An alternate resource for all of this and more:
> http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm
>
>
> --
>
> Jon R. Kennedy
> Charlotte, NC, USA
> jkennedy2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> "misskitty" <misskitty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:123C0359-7A8C-45D3-8E7A-871E09ABA523@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > When IE is opened, I have an unwanted toolbar (shopping and information
> > search bar) on my screen that I would like to get rid of. In my favorites
> > I
> > also have some folders that appear at the top of the list. These are also
> > unwanted but I cannot delete them. When I go to the screen for
> > saving/organizing favorites, they do not appear so I am unable to delete
> > them.
> >
> > I would appreciate any suggestions anyone could give. Thank you so much.
> >
>
>
.

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