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Old April 30th, 2004, 03:05 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Please help (Spyware).

Ever since I downloaded trustyFiles (like Kazaa) onto my computer I have been getting random pop-ups on my computer. I have the google ad-blocker so I should not be getting pop-ups like this. RAndom programs such as purity scan also installed onto my computer without my consent. So i tried running Ad-aware and tried uninstalling all of the random programs but im still getting pop-ups....I even uninistalled trustyfiles and im still getting pop-ups. Its driving me crazy because I can tell that my computer has also lagged a bit ever since. Can you please help? Anybody.....I dont know what to do. Thank you.
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Old April 30th, 2004, 03:15 PM     #2 (permalink)
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make sure you run Spybot and Adaware...

before you scan, make sure you update the reference files of both.
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Old April 30th, 2004, 03:16 PM     #3 (permalink)
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try spybot s&d and make sure spybot & adaware are both completley updated

if that dosent work you need to ask yourself is it really worth wasting all this time on this stuff or would it just be easier to back up the files you need and format it
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Old April 30th, 2004, 03:17 PM     #4 (permalink)
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Link to Spybot here.

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Old April 30th, 2004, 03:28 PM     #5 (permalink)
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You should try Kazaalite. No popups
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Old April 30th, 2004, 03:48 PM     #6 (permalink)
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one cannot download kazaa lite anymore......
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Old April 30th, 2004, 05:44 PM     #7 (permalink)
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Old April 30th, 2004, 05:52 PM     #8 (permalink)
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thx but lm using shareaza i think its better.....
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Old April 30th, 2004, 06:00 PM     #9 (permalink)
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definitely first run spybot search&destroy

also, look through your add/remove programs and program files folder, some spyware programs arent that bad and let you uninstall them, while some you can just delete their folder.
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