>From my experience, the easiest way to clean up spyware, etc. is to put
the infected drive in a clean pc as the slave and run Ad-Aware, AVG and
whatever else you use to get rid of adware, worms and the rest. You can
then manually remove any remnants (directories, stray .exe's, etc.) that
are left over and, hopefully, no system files were damaged and need to be
replaced.
-----Original Message-----
My friend has a 3 month old toshiba laptop running windows xp home sp2. He
runs Norton anti virus and it finds usually 6 or more infections. He runs
spyguard or something like it , and it finds 2 or 3. One of which is
"abetterinternet". It appears to be adware according to what I have read.
He also has a "drsnsrch hijacker " apparently running in memory, or at
least it is attempting to run.
My question is how can I help him to permanently remove these infections,
and tell him how to avoid them in the future.
He is running both Nortons firewall and windows firewall.
Also spyguard is constantly popping up with alert notices of what is
running on his system, very annoying. Pop up stopper also found the adware
files, and said it was deleting them but they always reappear.
Any advice will be appreciated.
--
----------------------------------------
The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
