Spy Ware
Moderator: Wiz Feinberg
Spy Ware
I have a icon that keeps re-appearing on my desktop inspite of numerous attemps to delete it and running Ad-Ware to remove it. It is a IE icon that says "get rid of spyware". I went to google to see what they have on it and they gave a proceedure and files to delete from the registry, but I don't have the files they list for this. This icon will show back up after I delete it , empty the trash and shut down and re-start. Any one know how to get rid of this. Thanks
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- Joined: 21 Apr 2003 12:01 am
- Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Sounds like you've got a vicious new one. Keep updating ad-aware and running it again. Running Norton Antivirus (or equivalent) may find it. If you're running Win 2000 or XP, you could open the task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Delete), click on processes, and look for anything fishy. (I've found it usefull to get to know what's supposed to be on this list, so I can determine what should NOT be there.)
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- Kenneth Berrier
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- Joined: 5 Jun 2003 12:01 am
- Location: Mount Airy, NC
Try booting with a Norton Anti-Virus CD in the drive and allow it to scan the boot sector of the drive. If you have a virus in the boot sector or a virus thats loading in memory, it's impossible to get rid of it while running Windows. Also, Windows Millenium Editon has the 'system restore' feature that Ricky mentioned using in XP.