My daughter has d/led Kazaa not once but twice on my computer and I'm furious. I just deleted it last night and didn't get a chance to tell her I didn't want that piece of garbage on my computer. Well, I came home at lunch to see see had d/led it again.
I went to add/remove programs and uninstalled but from what I gather you have to manually remove components in the registry. I don't like fooling around with this because I don't know if I'll remove something that'll screw up my whole pc. Now what can I do to get ride of this junk?
Download a copy of Ad Aware and run it to remove any "spyware" left behind after uninstalling.
The free version works well at discovering what's on your computer and allows you to delete such stuff easily.
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A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
I second Brad's recommendation for Ad Aware. It will remove the spyware components left over from Kazaa uninstall, including the registry entries. Also you might consider Spybot Search and Destroy. It's also a free program to detect and clean malicious programs and registry entries. Couldn't hurt to run both these programs. I do regularly.
They do not work under Mac OS X nor do they need to do so. Safari and Internet Explorer for the Mac don't have the same architecture which allows for this type of "spyware" to be easily installed.
------------------ Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
I understand that spyware is sometimes bundled into some other downloads from the internet. My question is, how can I be assured that things like spybot do not have similar spyware, virus, etc? Is spybot a pretty safe bet to be free of extras?
Both AdAware and Spybot are safe to use. Have had no problem for a year now and use them regularly to disinfect others's PC's that slow down and get sluggish.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 20 January 2004 at 04:11 PM.]</p></FONT>
I just used Spybot for the first time this week.
It took a bit for a computer dunce like me to utilize all that this download can do, but I removed the hijacker that had displaced my ISP home page. Yes!
I've been reading that AdAware is a bit outdated, but a new version will be available soon.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by David Cobb on 22 January 2004 at 11:17 AM.]</p></FONT>
Resurecting this past thread because it helped me this weekend.
May daughter's computer was suffering the effects of 2 years at college. God only knows what the "experts" on campus will do to these things.
I was able to clean things up pretty well with the latest versions of both of the packages linked above. With a little additional help from the Tech Support at Dell, I was able to get her CD-RW back in business. However, I wasn't able to remove Kazaa without waltzing right into RegEdit and searching for and deleting every reference to Kazaa; also deleted one higher level directory called "Sharman Networks..." which referenced several Kazaa sub-directories. That and deleting all the Kazaa files from Program Files seems to have done the trick.
Thanks for sharing all the knowledge and information above.
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HagFan
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Ron Page on 25 July 2004 at 01:22 PM.]</p></FONT>
