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@#$%! Toolbars
It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it
worse when some new crap inserts itself there. A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately, and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which work on my WindowsME system). The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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Darren,
I've no idea why neither SpyBot nor AdAware work on your system since you give no details however they are working well here on my Win Me systems as they are for others. There is no good reason why you should have any unwanted toolbars so I feel your first priority should be to checkout your PC and remove all unwanted malware be it a virus, trojan or commercial parasite. You know of some of the tools to use, others include BHODemon, CWShredder and HijackThis in addition to your preferred AV application. As to your firewall this won't necessarily prevent the addition of toolbars and the like as these are often installed as drive bys when visiting certain web sites and preventing this is more a question of not clicking boxes and setting ones security accordingly. See also: Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm and also Browser Hijacking http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/ --? Mike Maltby MS-MVP Darren Harris wrote: It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it worse when some new crap inserts itself there. A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately, and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which work on my WindowsME system). The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. |
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Firewalls typically have no ability to prevent you from acquiring
toolbars... most of the crapware that installs toolbars hope people are click happy and click OK whenever they see that option [some stupid video card vendors offer an option to force the mouse pointer on the OK button of a dialog box - and have this ON by default, but I digress] It would help immensely if you could figure out the NAME of the toolbar that has glommed onto you. You could then use www.google.com to search for, let's see: xxxxxxxxx +uninstall remove where xxxxxxxxxx is the name of the toolbar. One of the hits with Google might be a removal tool or instructions on how to do so yourself. HTH - good luck "Darren Harris" wrote in message m... It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it worse when some new crap inserts itself there. A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately, and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which work on my WindowsME system). The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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Darren Harris wrote:
It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it worse when some new crap inserts itself there. A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately, and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which work on my WindowsME system). The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am not sure when I picked up the new option in IE but I now have under tools a "Manage Add-ons..." option that once clicked lists all the crap not native to IE allowing you to delete at will. This may have been added in the XP SP2 and I am assuming you are using WIN ME so I am not sure if this option is available in your OS? John |
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Have you looked in your startup folder to see if something is loading
itself there? Have you checked msconfig to see what is loading itself there? Elly Byrne Tinnitus Resources - The Book http://tinnitusbook.com/ (Darren Harris) wrote: It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it worse when some new crap inserts itself there. A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately, and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which work on my WindowsME system). The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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Darren Harris wrote:
It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it worse when some new crap inserts itself there. A whole lot of garbage just appear in a new tolbar, and I have no idea where it came from. I haven't downloaded or installed anything lately, and I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which work on my WindowsME system). The Sygate Personal Fiewall obviously was of no help either, and I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. Darren, what browser and version of it are you using? -- Regards from John Corliss No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez please. |
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Tim Weaver wrote:
One of the best things you can do is get IE-SPYAD. This makes a lot of entries into the registry which puts known spyware sites into the restricted zone where they can't execute scripts. This will keep anything from being installed. Also, in your Internet Options - Advanced tab, make sure both "Enable Install On Demand" options are unticked. Or download and use Mozilla, a browser without the gaping holes and horrible default settings that come with Internet Explorer. |
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"Darren Harris" wrote in message m... It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it worse when some new crap inserts itself there. I'm not sure if I should blame Ad-Aware or Spybot(neither of which work on my WindowsME system). Then chances are that you may have acquired one of the more unpleasant species of spyware and that it is disabling them. http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ runs a script that can identify some parasites and provide removal information. HijackThis http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html may be helpful "It does not target specific programs/URLs, just the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites. As a result, false positives are imminent and unless you are sure what you're doing, you should always consult with knowledgeable folks (e.g. the forums) before deleting anything." Also autoruns http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...autoruns.shtml Can remove or temporarily disable programs that run at start-up (and Browser Helper objects) If you are using IE, you should also check your security zones settings are set at Default or better and your trusted publisher list (Internet Options -Content Publishers button) |
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"Mel" wrote in message ... Also autoruns http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...autoruns.shtml Can remove or temporarily disable programs that run at start-up (and Browser Helper objects) Sorry, meant it can remove or disable a programs autorun entry. |
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"Darren Harris" wrote
It's a royal pain to have to adjust my toolbar every other day, but it worse when some new crap inserts itself there. Sounds like a job for hijackThis.exe http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 kind regards brainz |
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