Winfix - what is it?

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In the last couple of days, a popup called Winfix comes up and it has the
appearance of being a Windows program. But I am suspicious so I closed it.
Am I correct in thinking it is not a safe and legitimate program? When I run
Ad-Aware it picks up cookies as critical elements - do I have spyware ??
 
In the last couple of days, a popup called Winfix comes up and it has the
appearance of being a Windows program. But I am suspicious so I closed it.
Am I correct in thinking it is not a safe and legitimate program? When I run
Ad-Aware it picks up cookies as critical elements - do I have spyware ??
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Looks like it's something you installed:
http://www.winfix.com/default.htm
 
It's an ad to try to convince you they are just great at fixing windows. To
quote another:
If WinFix was a legitimate decent product it would have rave reviews on
CNET etc and they would not have to spam the message boards and
millions of email users telling everyone how good their crap is. I for
one will NEVER trust a company that has to spam so hard to try to get
sales... Winfix must be a crappy product for them to do that...
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It is NOT a windows program. Try a good spyware adware scan and perhaps you
can get rid of the ads for it.
 
Download, install, update and run all of the following.

Ad-Aware
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/aawsepersonal.exe

Spybot search and destroy
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/spybotsd14.exe

Ewido Security Suite Trial version
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/ewidosetup.exe

Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta1)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displaylang=en

If none of the above fixes the issue then download Hijack this, run it, save
a copy of the log file and cut and paste it back here to this group so that
I can analyze it. Ignore anyone especially the troll Leythos, who will tag
along a nonsense post to this message, who tells you to post it elsewhere. I
need to see it not them.


HijackThis
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/HijackThis.zip


The authors of the above programs, with the exception of Microsoft has given
the owner of pcbutts1.com express written permission to redistribute their
software.

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pcbutts1 said:
Download, install, update and run all of the following.
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Only download software you can validate as uncompromised - in the case
of non-vendor site you have no guarantee that the files are unmodified
or uncompromised. Anyone providing a link to a non-vendors site with a
direct download should not be trusted, the vendors sites are the safest
place to download their application.

Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

These sites are for downloading Anti-Spyware tools, in order that I
would use them myself:

AdAwareSE can be found here:
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

SpyBot Search and Destroy can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Ewido Security Suite Trial can be found here:
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

CrapCleaner can be found at the vendors site here:
http://www.ccleaner.com/ccdownload.asp

CleanUp can be found at the vendors site here:
http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/download.html
or from another reputable source:
http://www.tucows.com/get/405276_152071

The following are two links to Antivirus software in order that I would
use them:

You can also download Symantec Trial version of their Antivirus software
from here:
http://www.symantec.com/downloads/

Download AVG Personal Free edition from here:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

These are the actual vendors sites, not some unknown or authorized no-
name site. They also don't artificially increase the hits for sites that
get paid for the amount of traffic they can generate like one poster has
admitted to in this group.
 
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