Re: just blowing off a little steamabout xp

Two words: Lavasoft AdAware. Has worked every time for me.

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On Wednesday 22 June 2005 00:05, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> I had to do something on my sisters computer running xp-home, sucker had
> so much spyware/adware on it it was hard to use.
> Damn thing has Norton Anti-Virus (updated) and whatever that adware
> program billy supplies. 445 pieces of adware/spyware on it. Only about
> 12 different ones, but so many multiple instances that it totaled 445.
>
> Spybot took care of most of them, but there was one called WinTools. I
> probably spent 30 min. researching it with Google. Then rebooting in
> Safe Mode, un-registering dll's, rebooting, attempting to delete files,
> rebooting into Safe-Mode to re-un-register because either they left one
> .dll out of the documentation or the spyware had another .dll that the
> hadn't mentioned and all had re-registered themselves, finally removing
> files, about an hour of finding and removing keys from the registry,
> then finally re-running Spybot to clean up. All kinds of fun.
>
> Total time spent: about 4 1/2 to 5 hours. 2+ on the last one alone.
>
> What I really loved about the last one was that according to the
> documentation on its removal, it was originally installed by ActiveX
> (for an ENHANCED Internet experience - horse hockey).

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Joshua Kugler
CDE System Administrator
http://distance.uaf.edu/
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