Webroots SPYSWEEPER

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Charles

I uninstalled an earlier version of Webroot’s SpySeeper. I then installed
the latest version. Immediately after a successful installation I started
receiving numerous pop-ups telling me that SpySweeper is blocking my system
from contacting various possible spyware sites. About every two minutes it
would pop-up with a different site. I then uninstalled the program. Removed
all the files relating to SpySweeper from my hard drive. Then I Used JV16
to find any SpySweeper entries in the registry, it found several and I
deleted them. However, about 9 remained that I was unable to delete. I then
ran REGEDIT and tried to delete them one at a time. This is an example of
one of the entries…………….

HKLM\system\controlset003\enum\root\legacy_webrootspysweeperservice\0000\

The other 8 are all similar to the above. The error response I get is
“Windows core returned the following error, Access denied or invalid key”
Need help in finding a way to delete these 9 registry entries. I’d like to
get rid of them before I install the previous version of SpySweeper then I’ll
install the latest version over top of the previous version. Any ideas as
to why the continuous pop-ups?

Thanks for any help.
 
I think I'd be more worried why my PC is trying to connect to spyware sites.
Have you done a full spyware scan.? It sounds like spysweeper is doing its
job.

Have you restarted your PC and checked the registry entries again.
Neil
 
This one did the trick. After removing 3 Spysweeper entries from the non
plug n play and then re-booting the entries in the registry disappeared.
Tomorr ow I'll try to reinstall. Thanks for all the help.

-Charles
 
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