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Old May 30th 04, 10:15 AM
Steve
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Ok, heres one for ya. I kept getting a pop-up, with popup
blocker on, saying it came from 404Search, so I went to
Program Files, found it and deleted it. Or so I thought.
It keeps putting itself in my program files.....even
deletion after deletion...how do I keep this from
happening? Thanx
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Old May 30th 04, 10:32 AM
Mike M
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It seems to me your system could do with a thorough cleanse having picked up
one or more unwanted parasites whilst browsing.

This would be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free Ad-Aware 6.0
from Lavasoft (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and also SpyBot
Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and use them to check your
system for other commercial parasites remembering that they are only as good
as when you last updated their reference files. I also use a program called
BHODemon (http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm that checks for
unwanted Browser Help Objects and SpywareBlaster
(http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.

Then there is CWShredder
(http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip) which is the best way
of getting rid of the many forms of the CoolWebSearch hijacker details of
which can be found at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
and also http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp..

Finally if you still continue to experience problems download a copy of
HijackThis from (http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html). Create a
folder called hijackthis on C: and copy the file you downloaded to that
folder. Close as many applications as you can including all instances of
Internet Explorer and then run hijackthis.exe and post back the log, provided
that it isn't too long, to this thread, otherwise to the HijackThis Forum at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/ and hopefully this will enable someone to
identify the cause of your problem.
--?
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Steve wrote:

Ok, heres one for ya. I kept getting a pop-up, with popup
blocker on, saying it came from 404Search, so I went to
Program Files, found it and deleted it. Or so I thought.
It keeps putting itself in my program files.....even
deletion after deletion...how do I keep this from
happening? Thanx



 




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