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re: Spyware
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 4:59 pm
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Posted by Bob B (1139 messages posted)


Adaare and Spybot Search and Destroy. Maybe Hijack Thiss too...


On Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 4:02 pm, emoboy wrote:
>I'm pretty sure I have some sort of Spyware or robot or virus on my computer because
>everytime I shut down XP, first off I always get the I.E. not resonding or whatever,
>so I have to End the Task. Then, everytime I restart my computer, new homepages keep
>switching. I set my homepage to like google and it changes on me to like some stupid
>myfunstart.com or something.
>
>I was on a website and it said blah blah found a spyware named BrowserAid on your
>computer, for only $blah blah amounts we can stop pop-ups, and I guess I'm not really
>looking for popup blockers, but more or less a way to just delete this spyware or
>virus from registry or something... Like I said I think it's called BroswerAid or
>something like that...
>
>Any Ideas?


Written in response to:
Spyware (emoboy: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 4:02 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Spyware (emoboy: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 5:23 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Spyware (emoboy: Tue, Oct 28, 2003, 4:02 pm)
-re: Spyware (Bob B: Tue, Oct 28, 2003, 4:59 pm)
*re: Spyware (emoboy: Tue, Oct 28, 2003, 5:23 pm)
-re: Spyware (MJB: Tue, Oct 28, 2003, 6:18 pm)
-re: Spyware (emoboy: Tue, Oct 28, 2003, 6:50 pm)
*re: Spyware (MJB: Tue, Oct 28, 2003, 8:01 pm)
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