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October 15th, 2003, 01:07 AM
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Re: OT: HELP!! Virus??
What OS are you running. I know that in XP you have to disable the back up function in order to get a clean sweep of your system if a virus has infected your system.
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October 15th, 2003, 01:21 AM
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Re: OT: HELP!! Virus??
Thanks all guys, Alpha, this does indeed seem to be the main problem. I am assuming as the 'adware' is part of the name virus it is detecting this darn thing. Unfortunately all the help on your link page is 'greek' to me, I'm a very simple point and click kinda guy.
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October 15th, 2003, 01:22 AM
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Re: OT: HELP!! Virus??
You have some spyware/adware that installed itself. You need to get a program like Ad-Aware to clean it up.
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October 15th, 2003, 01:24 AM
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Re: OT: HELP!! Virus??
Posting while I was typing. 
It actually is not a virus, which is why anti-virus programs can not do anything. It looks like a normal program to them.  Ad-Aware (or an equivalent) is the solution, as you are probably well aware of by now.  |
October 15th, 2003, 01:39 AM
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Re: OT: HELP!! Virus??
Indeed, I've run spy-bot as well as ad-aware 6.0 with the new build. neither has removed this annoying bug. arrrggghhh. Upon each re-start of the computer they find lots of new adware appears on their 'found and removed' list. most of them containing the searchv name in it.
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October 15th, 2003, 01:44 AM
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Re: OT: HELP!! Virus??
Did you make sure to get the latest updates for those programs? Try running any updater functions they have.
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October 15th, 2003, 01:45 AM
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Re: OT: HELP!! Virus??
that should be illegal.
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