Couponica ???

Lately my computer locks up after a message like 'Couponica has caused
an error in .....', generally kernal.dll. I have to turn the computer
off as it freezes.
What is Couponica for? Is it safe to delete??

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.

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 SE Personal Edition from www.lavasoftusa.com, install,
update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from
your system.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

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

"Ranald Blanchard" wrote in message
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Lately my computer locks up after a message like 'Couponica has caused
an error in .....', generally kernal.dll. I have to turn the computer
off as it freezes.
What is Couponica for? Is it safe to delete??

Ranald Blanchard wrote:
Lately my computer locks up after a message like 'Couponica has caused
an error in .....', generally kernal.dll. I have to turn the computer
off as it freezes.
What is Couponica for? Is it safe to delete??


I'm not even going to check... "Couponica"; the name just screams
"spyware". Try to get rid of it manually then when that doesn't work,
download, install and run Ad-Aware from www.lavasoftusa.com


Rick