Words on web pages are highlighted or underlined (scumware)

[Debutante]

I am trying to get rid of scumware..I have used Lavasoft/AdAware, NoAdaware,
SpyBot, HijackThis and McAfee Anti-Virus software..nothing.

Please help..many thanks in advance.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
This is probably ezula.
See: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/TopText.html
http://www.cexx.org/toptext.htm
http://www.whirlywiryweb.com/q/ezula.asp
Do you have Ad-aware SE, the latest version? Has it been recently updated?
Ad-aware should remove some versions of ezula. Are there entries like ad
text, hot text, top text, etc in Ctrl Panel> add/remove?

Don
[MS MVP IE/OE]

 

[Guest]

Do you know the name of the scumware? If not you could check your running
processes to see if it's listed. Once you find the name, do a search for it
and you should find a way to get rid of it.

 

[Debutante]

I upgraded Lavasoft to SE and it still did not help..I must have went
through "Add/Remove Programs" about 20 times..looking for "CannotFind.Net"
and "SearchMeUp.com" ..the names of the links. After the 21st time I noticed
something called "TypeText" and deleted that..it cleared all the scumware.

Thank you all for your responses..they all have helped.

 

[Don Varnau]

I'll add type text to my list. Thanks for the feedback.

Don
[MS MVP IE/OE]