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Adam_B

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Registered: 13th Dec 00
Location: Lancashire
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15th Jul 05 at 09:02

grrr, this is pissing me off now. Every other day or so these icons appear on my desktop-

This tool bar appears as well-

and IE goes really slow everynow and again. When i delete the icons they dont go to the recycle bin, they just dissapear, and the tool bar says i need to to delete it from add/remove programs list, but its not in there. Help me please

Pablo

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Registered: 3rd Feb 03
Location: Milton Keynes
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15th Jul 05 at 09:04

format c:\

Carr

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Registered: 1st Oct 04
Location: Leicestershire (Home) Ambleside, Lakes (Uni)
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15th Jul 05 at 09:04

Get a spyware remover like adaware for free and run it

Rebrabuk

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Registered: 28th Mar 04
Location: North East
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15th Jul 05 at 09:04

Run anti spyware/adware software first of all to find out what the name of the toolbar is. Then get back to us with your findings...

gooner_47

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Registered: 20th Jul 04
Location: Bexhill/Croydon
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15th Jul 05 at 09:05

You've got spware/adware. Programs like Ad-Aware, Spybot, SpySweeper will help. Make sure you update all the definitons before you search

Skinz

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Registered: 15th May 03
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15th Jul 05 at 09:09

as above, but for that you may find something in add/remove programs

Carr

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Registered: 1st Oct 04
Location: Leicestershire (Home) Ambleside, Lakes (Uni)
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15th Jul 05 at 09:09

I got told last night that having a picture as a desktop can increase the start up time by 20 seconds and 5 seconds for each icon.
There was a lad who had a video shortcut on his desktop and the file was 2 meg or something and took him ages to load until he deleted it off the desktop

Jonny P

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Registered: 11th Dec 04
Location: Merseyside Drives: Civic Type R EP3
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15th Jul 05 at 10:27

that hapens with mine. so i downloaded firefox

Andrew

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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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15th Jul 05 at 10:29

Format C:

My PC keeps turning itself off

Format C job i think

Richie

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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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15th Jul 05 at 10:34

Its coolwebsearch spyware or one of its many variants, tis an absolute bastard to get shot of.

Carr

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Registered: 1st Oct 04
Location: Leicestershire (Home) Ambleside, Lakes (Uni)
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15th Jul 05 at 10:36

if it's cool webs search get cwshredder. I have it if you want it?

Mark Petty

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Registered: 26th Jul 01
Location: Bournemouth Drives: Suzuki gsf600
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15th Jul 05 at 10:49

download http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html

And run the free tool it will get rid of any unwanted programs

Carr

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Registered: 1st Oct 04
Location: Leicestershire (Home) Ambleside, Lakes (Uni)
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15th Jul 05 at 11:19

But if it's coolwebsearch they don't normally get rid of it hence why cwshredder was created

Mark Petty

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Registered: 26th Jul 01
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15th Jul 05 at 11:44

quote:
Originally posted by Carr
But if it's coolwebsearch they don't normally get rid of it hence why cwshredder was created

The link I posted does

scott d

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Registered: 17th Jun 04
Location: Harwood, Greater Manchester
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15th Jul 05 at 11:46

Try booting up in safe mode then do a scan with adware/spyware removal software. The adware shouldn't load on startup in safe mode so can be removed easily.

probably better off using a specific remover though to be sure.

_Allan_

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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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15th Jul 05 at 11:54

Adaware
Spybot
cwshredder
MS anti spyware

one of them will work

lewie

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Registered: 21st Feb 05
Location: Home: Orkney Uni: Edinburgh
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15th Jul 05 at 11:54

when you go to 'dodgy' websites they install shit like that without asking/being noticed

Carr

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Registered: 1st Oct 04
Location: Leicestershire (Home) Ambleside, Lakes (Uni)
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15th Jul 05 at 12:04

quote:
Originally posted by _Allan_
Adaware
Spybot
cwshredder
MS anti spyware

one of them will work

I have all of these plus avg

RS6

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Registered: 5th Nov 03
Location: with MJ
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15th Jul 05 at 12:20

i had that toolbar cudn't find anything to remove it, so formatted in the end

all the spyware programs couldn't find it

IntaCepta

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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Mill Hill East, Greater London
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15th Jul 05 at 13:23

two words.
firefox and spyware.

if you don't know what to do with those two words i suggest you find someone that does

actually here a are a few more special words
cwsshedder,
adaware,
ms anti spyware beta
avg free edition
kerio personal firewall
spybod s&d

_Allan_

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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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15th Jul 05 at 13:33

quote:
Originally posted by Carr

quote:
Originally posted by _Allan_
Adaware
Spybot
cwshredder
MS anti spyware

one of them will work

I have all of these plus avg