For an even more intensive look at those nasties, free downloads of HijackThis and CWShredder are available at www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html. I suggest anyone who is not a real techie to enlist a member who is to help interpret some of the results. Once done, the program is quick to eradicate a lot of bad stuff. I've been fighting this stuff for a long time and can attest to it's tenacity. -Murf Don't even get me started on spyware and adware. My last computer was
so badly infested with spyware that I could not use it. I had a fresh
pop-up add appearing on top of my work every 8 to 10 seconds. So many
programs and processes loaded it took the computer more than 5 minutes
to boot. Nothing could really clean it up. The really nasty thing
about these programs is that they are large enough o try and protect
themselves. They bury themselves in the registry to load first at every
boot-up and often hide second and third copies under random names in
other folders on your hard drive. If you delete the original or your
spyware program cleans up the registry another little applet just
reloads the program from this hidden site and your screwed again. Only
a complete reformat can truly get rid of these nasty little monsters.
The best program available right now is a program called spybot search
and destroy.
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