Spy Ware

Dan Dowd · Post by **Dan Dowd** » 5 Jun 2003 6:55 am

I have a icon that keeps re-appearing on my desktop inspite of numerous attemps to delete it and running Ad-Ware to remove it. It is a IE icon that says "get rid of spyware". I went to google to see what they have on it and they gave a proceedure and files to delete from the registry, but I don't have the files they list for this. This icon will show back up after I delete it , empty the trash and shut down and re-start. Any one know how to get rid of this. Thanks

Tony LaCroix · Post by **Tony LaCroix** » 5 Jun 2003 7:12 am

Sounds like you've got a vicious new one. Keep updating ad-aware and running it again. Running Norton Antivirus (or equivalent) may find it. If you're running Win 2000 or XP, you could open the task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Delete), click on processes, and look for anything fishy. (I've found it usefull to get to know what's supposed to be on this list, so I can determine what should NOT be there.)

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 5 Jun 2003 11:00 am

Dan I had this happen on another computer of mine....and is running XP; so I did a restore to a day sometime before this started happening....and it was finally GONE...
Hope you have XP; cause I tried everything else and didn't work till restore.
Ricky

Tommy Mc · Post by **Tommy Mc** » 8 Jun 2003 12:30 pm

Can you right-click and check "properties" to find it's name & location? Then if you have to, manually delete it, and look for similar names in your registry.....you might get lucky.

Kenneth Berrier · Post by **Kenneth Berrier** » 8 Jun 2003 8:50 pm

Try booting with a Norton Anti-Virus CD in the drive and allow it to scan the boot sector of the drive. If you have a virus in the boot sector or a virus thats loading in memory, it's impossible to get rid of it while running Windows. Also, Windows Millenium Editon has the 'system restore' feature that Ricky mentioned using in XP.