I had gotten some nasty little spy on my system that was making my surfing a living hell. It changed my homepage and kept making popups like crazy. Sooooooooooo I downloaded Spybot

Ran it and got rid of a zillion little buggers on my system. It was very interesting to see how much crap I had gathered. Just thought I'd pass it along cause I know I have spoken to a couple others who have had similar troubles.

I am also off to readjust my security setting

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bad bugs... bad bad bugs... glad to hear you have been successful squashing them

another program that's pretty decent to use is AdAware. I run it at least once a week and squash upwards of 70 or 80 at a time....LOVE TO KILL THOSE THINGS!

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yeah I have spybot and ad aware. They don't mess with me!

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dang.. 170 buggers in mine.. gone now The world is a better place Thanks again Lilith..

YVW..bet your system runs a bit faster now too

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I'm on a 27.4GB H/D Laptop here, and with 23GB free, it might be worth running it. Every last byte helps. Nice one Lilith.

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Thanks Lil and guys.

These wankers piss me off to hell and back - you know my normal mild-mannered disposition but I would like to get the lovely people who do all these bugs in a quiet dark room!

Lil, I got the pop up and change of home page - its like being molested!

You are right Sharni! I made sure and read the help before I used it. It helps you to know what you want gone and what you may need.

Vigil, I am still having trouble getting rid of mine...everytime I think it's gone, it's back!

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Wouldn't it be SSOOOOOOOOOOO nice to be able to return them and have them constantly screw up there computers like they do everyone elses?

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TY for this Lil! I had over 180 of the nasty buggers.......almost all were bad ones too!

Did you immunize against them too? Maybe that'll keep um away Lil!?

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Vigil, I am still having trouble getting rid of mine...everytime I think it's gone, it's back! [/B][/QUOTE]

Mine's returned too!

What can we do?

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Now lilith this is what happens when you install programs like grokster naughty girl!

Most of the things picked up by Ad-aware and other programs are only cookies which you don't really need to worry about. It's the annoying things like "MyBar" that gets added to your web browser and other programs that redirect your search to websites added by the spyware. I ended up looking through the windows registry to get rid of a few of the little buggers.

I found that the P2P software Limewire has less spyware in and it's pretty easy to get rid off.

YES I've got ADSL now I'm perving at the speed of light woo hoo

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