Re: Is it a spyware? Sorry if it is a bit long.

From: Sandra (sandy10011_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/31/03 

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 01:44:44 -0700

Thankyou for everyone's help. I ran the spybot search and
destroy and found and deleted 22 nasty programmes/files.
Feel much happier now. Think I shall be running it
frequently! Hope you get rid of your parasite michael.
(quite an apt word for such lowlife programmes!) Sandra
>-----Original Message-----
>Sandra wrote:
>> I have only just learnt the word spyware reading some
of
>> the messages but it sounds as though that might be the
>> problem.
>> My computer was invaded by something, it put a shortcut
>> on the desktop which showed pornographic pictures on a
>> popup. There were several programs or files I found
which
>> initially I couldn't delete as it said I didn't have
>> access. I managed to delete these after changing
>
>You can try running either "Spybot Search and Destroy",
free from
>http://security.kolla.de/ or "AdAware", free from
http://www.lavasoftusa.com
>to help you clean this up
>
>Either of these will hopefully be able to help, both are
free, and both are
>very good. I personally use spybot out of the two but
you can't go wrong
>with either.
>
>--
>--
>Rob
>MS MVP
>http://www.robertmoir.co.uk
>
>
>.
>

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