In a message dated 8/13/2004 3:18:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Further to the Apropose problem. A search of "apropos" (without the "E") > found this page > http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/apropos/index.phtml Which > gives explicit manual removal instructions. There seems to be quite a few entries > that must be deleted > from the registry. Geez! I just deleted 10 gig of my own stuff.....after I made copies and put them on the D drive. PLEASE do a back up if you go with this method. It's that bad??? I'm not sure I have anything to back up to. I guess I can do the D drive, but I'm trying to keep that as empty as possible so I can make the big change over: making the D drive the master. Any time I tried to back up to DVD they erased themselves! My other puter won't take floppies, it only wants to format them even though I have lots of stuff already on them. The instructions are given by the > author of BazookaT Adware and Spyware > Scanner. He has a free download available at the site as well. I do not have any > experience with this program, so I can't comment on it's effectiveness. > Looks like you have quite a challenge on your hands, and I don't envy you. I just > cleaned my 70-something mom's computer of scads of spyware...she just > doesn't get "safe surfing", and likes to download all the so-called Free games, and > programs and such. At least I finally got her to stop using Gator! :-). I had that for a while, too. It was the only way I could get on to Audiogalaxy.com. Since I got the new hard drive (the 40 gig) I never bothered to re-install it because I found out it was Spyware. The really bad part is she goes to all these "free" ecard and funny pages, and sends > them to MY email address. And I wonder why I get so much SPAM :-)The > one thing I've learned on the Internet. There are very few things that are > TRULY free anymore. Just like any other area of life! I used to go to those things every once in a while, but I noticed that they kept causing me to get booted, so I stopped going to them and told people to stop sending me stuff from there because everytime I'd open one I'd get booted. Dale ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
