Re: Need help removing 8ad

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:54:10 -0700

Greetings --

http://www.8ad.com/Uninstall.exe

    To deal with issues caused by any sort of "adware" and/or
"spyware,"such as Gator, Comet Cursors, Xupiter, Bonzai Buddy, or
KaZaA, and their remnants, that you've deliberately (but without
understanding the consequences) installed, two products that are
quite effective (at finding and removing this type of scumware) are
Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.de and SpyBot Search & Destroy from
http://security.kolla.de/. Both have free versions. It's even
possible to use SpyBot Search & Destroy to "immunize" your system
against most future intrusions. I use both and generally perform
manual scans every week or so to clean out cookies, etc.

    Additionally, manual removal instructions for the most common
varieties of scumware are available here:

PC Hell Spyware and Adware Removal Help
http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml

Bruce Chambers 

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"Steve" <ScubaSteveSA@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:005501c3cc94$0f0185d0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I am having a very hard time removing 8ad.  It's some
> type of program that recognizes certain words on a web
> page triggering a pop up.  This results in a significant
> (very for me at least) slowing of IE.  Please help.
> Browsing anymore is horribly slow, and I am very confused
> in how to remove it.  If someone can give me a
> walkthrough on how to remove it, I would be so very
> apprciative.
>
> Thank you
>

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