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09/27/04 12:53 PM

#8779 RE: Cush #8778

Good point. When you get to that web site start your own message as your hijack list will be different from the other guys. Also you may have other bugs to be found. Once they get you clean you need to run the immunize function in Spybot, and you need to run Spywareblaster. The new Spybot has two stay resident functions that should have been installed when you setup Spybot, it is important to have both of them on when you are flying by strange web sites. If you decide not to use the functions in Spybot then you need to run SpywareGuard, it is a resident program.
In case you were wondering why we have you run so many programs. Spyware/adware is a very hot area right now with new programs coming online constantly. While each program is adding to their list of programs that they can remove on a daily bases, and updating there list weekly or so, you will find that one or the other will be ahead for a while. About SpywareBlaster program, this program does not remove any thing. So what good is it, this program is a blocking type program, it blocks cookies and puts bad web sites into the restricted zone of your IE program, and it blocks activex programs that it knows about. The same programmer made SpywareGuard, SpywareBlaster is passive, you run it about once a week. SpywareGuard is active, it starts with windows. As far as I can tell it does the something as the resident functions in Spybot.

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tc

09/27/04 3:28 PM

#8780 RE: Cush #8778

Windows 98 doesn't have system restore so that won't be a potential problem. I'll reiterate what Bruce said about HijackThis. Post the complete log. Do not try to delete anything until instructed to by the experts in the forum. Those guys know what they're doing.