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Old May 23rd 04, 08:31 AM
Mart
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David, you never seem to follow the suggestions offered or reply to all the
questions asked. But, now considering the (new) circumstances, all I can
advise is that you go through the following procedure - EXACTLY AND TO THE
LETTER!!

Reproduced and credited to Noel Paton:-

"You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.
(Get a free copy of AVG from www.Grisoft.com if you don't already have one.)

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to
remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.
--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's"


Install a Firewall - (Zone Alarm, Freeware from ZoneLabs at
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...id=zadb_zadown)

Then go back and Follow Mike M's advice and check through the whole of this
thread and re-read all previous advice offered.

Mart




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Hey Mart,
If i don't respond for a day or so don't worry, i am still
there :-). Ok, here is the low down. First off, i did
delete that 3d modeling program and it didn't fix the
problem which means i have to re-install it, sigh :-(.
But, there has been some new developments. I don't know i
you knew this but i am 16 years old and am trying to fix
this problem on the family comupter (it is sort of my
responsibility since it started acting up after i
installed the 3d modelling program). Ok, so my dad has a
program called Ad-aware 6.0 which he got from the
internet. This program stops popups which have been a
major problem for us. Well aparently, there are sites
that will put spyware information on the computer (i don't
know if you know what i am talking about, do you?). So,
this Ad-aware program will get rid of the spyware junk.
My dad did this and it fixed the problem. But-the second
he logged back onto the internet it started acting up
again. And even through he has run the program again, the
same problem is now in effect. That alot of info, if you
don't understand, just write and i will try to explain
better.
David