Greetings --
To deal with issues caused by any sort of "adware" and/or
"spyware,"such as Gator, Comet Cursors, Xupiter, Bonzai Buddy, or
KaZaA, and their remnants, that you've deliberately (but without
understanding the consequences) installed, two products that are
quite effective (at finding and removing this type of scumware) are
Ad-Aware from
www.lavasoft.de and SpyBot Search & Destroy from
www.safer-networking.org/. Both have free versions. It's even
possible to use SpyBot Search & Destroy to "immunize" your system
against most future intrusions. I use both and generally perform
manual scans every week or so to clean out cookies, etc.
Additionally, manual removal instructions for the most common
varieties of scumware are available here:
PC Hell Spyware and Adware Removal Help
http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml
Bruce Chambers
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George said:
I mistakenly dwnled what I thought was Adaware and it turned out to
be Adware a spyware pop-up nightmare that launches when Internet Expl
is running. Norton anti-virus finds it but cannot delete it. I can't
get to the quarantine menu. Perhaps this is because it is a 90 trial.
Spybot doesn't seem to pick-up all the bad elements of this spyware or
is unable to remove them. Can anyone help me innoculate against this
SOB.
