jon peterhouse wrote:
somehow chat messenger application has installed on my computer i would
like to remove it but as it is not a program it doesnt appear in
programs to remove. how can it be removed without reformatting. I am
relatively new so words of one syllable would help!
How does "chat messenger" related to "pidgin", except in as much as
"chat messenger" might be used as a generic name for programs like MSN
Messenger, AIM, and Pidgin. If you have a program that is branding
itself as "Chat Messenger", it isn't Pidgin, or it is a hacked version
of Pidgin.
On Windows XP Pidgin does appear in Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs.
It will appear in a similar place on other versions of Windows.
A program is still a program, even if it doesn't appear there.
Pidgin does not install, unless you explicitly install it. On Windows,
at least, it installs in a way that makes it available to uninstall by
the normal methods for the OS. The only problem with uninstallation is
that it must be completely stopped (use the system tray icon in Windows
XP), but you still remove it using Add/Remove programs.
On the information provided, you need to go to a computer shop that
provides virus removal services, as you have an unidentified,
maliciously installed program and don't have the skills to disinfect the
system.
--
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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