jman785
12-09-2003, 04:57 PM
The following information, is provided as is, no more assistance, and it is recommended, you have some basic computer knowledge before attempting to fix any of the things listed below. I hereby am NOT responsible, for any malfunctions, registry errors, crashes, etc... that are a result of this information being posted.
So, after making a scare, from the disclaimer :) How's your day? Mine, not good after seeing about 30 million pop ups. I've been fighting this battle for a good 3 months now. I can finally say I've won, to this date, every case of spyware and adware. Want to know how I did it? Norton Antivirus, is no help here, it doesn't matter if you have the MOST up to date antivirus around. Only in some circumstances will a firewall even help you, only good ones will anyway. Also depending on how it functions, you can't get rid of it, unless you look the program names up in google, or another search engine. Also, if your Internet Explorer, or Netscape, which I haven't used in years might I add (and I don't know if there is even toolbar spams for Netscape), but if you have tool bars popping up...saying, BestSearch, or Yahoo, sometimes you can uninstall these manually via Start>Settings>Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs. Sometimes you can't. Although you can get rid of them. There are many spyware remover programs, but none that function like this one. I find that Ad-aware 6.0, is a great program, easy to use...and it fixes and backsup everything. I delete mine, because I frankly don't care about saving spyware somewhere in a folder unused, to build up :) So far, I've had 28 scans, and removed 82 items. On my other PC, I had 4 scans with 125 objects. After this, I use RegistryMechanic as well, if your into "cracking" software, this is where you'll enjoy getting the free programs. I use both, they work great. I've eliminated most of the spyware, except 1 search bar, called Clear Search. (C:\program files\clear search\) It had really been irritating me, I finally went into registry and deleted everything that had to do with that and other popups...I mean Ad-aware is just a program, it has things it misses as well..so I went ahead and deleted a few things out of there, rebooted, loaded IE, there was the bar, I was astonished. I tried to manually delete the directory, can't do it, its Access Denied, since the file is in use. So I went to Google...did a search for Clear Search, pulled up Clear Search Inc, and went to their site, what was really funny, was they had "UN-Installer" right on their website, like you can't miss it in the menu to the left, I laughed thinking about what scam artists they are and how they get into your PC. Well enough ranting...if you need help...although I don't want any PM's concerning this, or emails, or IM's, feel free to post them here and I'll help you the best to my ability.
Cordially,
Jared Waites
So, after making a scare, from the disclaimer :) How's your day? Mine, not good after seeing about 30 million pop ups. I've been fighting this battle for a good 3 months now. I can finally say I've won, to this date, every case of spyware and adware. Want to know how I did it? Norton Antivirus, is no help here, it doesn't matter if you have the MOST up to date antivirus around. Only in some circumstances will a firewall even help you, only good ones will anyway. Also depending on how it functions, you can't get rid of it, unless you look the program names up in google, or another search engine. Also, if your Internet Explorer, or Netscape, which I haven't used in years might I add (and I don't know if there is even toolbar spams for Netscape), but if you have tool bars popping up...saying, BestSearch, or Yahoo, sometimes you can uninstall these manually via Start>Settings>Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs. Sometimes you can't. Although you can get rid of them. There are many spyware remover programs, but none that function like this one. I find that Ad-aware 6.0, is a great program, easy to use...and it fixes and backsup everything. I delete mine, because I frankly don't care about saving spyware somewhere in a folder unused, to build up :) So far, I've had 28 scans, and removed 82 items. On my other PC, I had 4 scans with 125 objects. After this, I use RegistryMechanic as well, if your into "cracking" software, this is where you'll enjoy getting the free programs. I use both, they work great. I've eliminated most of the spyware, except 1 search bar, called Clear Search. (C:\program files\clear search\) It had really been irritating me, I finally went into registry and deleted everything that had to do with that and other popups...I mean Ad-aware is just a program, it has things it misses as well..so I went ahead and deleted a few things out of there, rebooted, loaded IE, there was the bar, I was astonished. I tried to manually delete the directory, can't do it, its Access Denied, since the file is in use. So I went to Google...did a search for Clear Search, pulled up Clear Search Inc, and went to their site, what was really funny, was they had "UN-Installer" right on their website, like you can't miss it in the menu to the left, I laughed thinking about what scam artists they are and how they get into your PC. Well enough ranting...if you need help...although I don't want any PM's concerning this, or emails, or IM's, feel free to post them here and I'll help you the best to my ability.
Cordially,
Jared Waites