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My Way has invaded my computer
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My Way has invaded my computer
Monday, February 9, 2004 at 9:53 am
Posted by kidtamer
(23 messages posted)
My dear daughter downloaded Smiley Central onto MY computer and then realized that
she had also added a bunch of spyward/adware with it. She deleted the files but
not from the control panel. When I try to take "My Way Speedbar (outlook,outlook
express & smiley central) I am told that the files cannot be found and they stay
on the cp list. Does anyone know how to take them off of the control panel list?
Also, thanks to that kind person who helped me yesterday. I found that "CoolWebSearch"
had planted a Trojan on my machine. Merjin.com provided a search and destroy tool
that found and deleted all of it. I wouldn't have known to even look for it without
your help. THANKS again.
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re: My Way has invaded my computer
Monday, February 9, 2004 at 10:13 am
Posted by Jeff
(166 messages posted)
Here are instructions to remove it. http://www.free-web-browsers.com/remove-mysearch.shtml
Spybot S&D should also remove it. http://www.safer-networking.org/
On Monday, February 9, 2004 at 9:53 am, kidtamer wrote:
>My dear daughter downloaded Smiley Central onto MY computer and then realized that
>she had also added a bunch of spyward/adware with it. She deleted the files but
>not from the control panel. When I try to take "My Way Speedbar (outlook,outlook
>express & smiley central) I am told that the files cannot be found and they stay
>on the cp list. Does anyone know how to take them off of the control panel list?
> Also, thanks to that kind person who helped me yesterday. I found that "CoolWebSearch"
>had planted a Trojan on my machine. Merjin.com provided a search and destroy tool
>that found and deleted all of it. I wouldn't have known to even look for it without
>your help. THANKS again.
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re: My Way has invaded my computer
Monday, February 9, 2004 at 10:56 am
Posted by John L
(624 messages posted)
For the Coolwebsearch parasite, use this...
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
Can't give you a direct link to the download, because it's updated rather frequently...
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re: My Way has invaded my computer
Monday, February 9, 2004 at 4:23 pm
Posted by Jazz
(3 messages posted)
My
Search Bar Removal Instructions
On Monday, February 9, 2004 at 9:53 am, kidtamer wrote:
>My dear daughter downloaded Smiley Central onto MY computer and then realized that
>she had also added a bunch of spyward/adware with it. She deleted the files but
>not from the control panel. When I try to take "My Way Speedbar (outlook,outlook
>express & smiley central) I am told that the files cannot be found and they stay
>on the cp list. Does anyone know how to take them off of the control panel list?
> Also, thanks to that kind person who helped me yesterday. I found that "CoolWebSearch"
>had planted a Trojan on my machine. Merjin.com provided a search and destroy tool
>that found and deleted all of it. I wouldn't have known to even look for it without
>your help. THANKS again.
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