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  • Thursday, 1 November 2007 9:58 PM
     
     
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    so the adware seems a little ineffective.  i loaded up a program (spybot search and destroy) on advice from my computer repair man.

     

    it found half a dozen sitting resident on the computer.

     

    so i have this neat program running in memory and appartently not doing its job.

     

    mmmm!

       

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    • Saturday, 3 November 2007 2:21 AM
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      Spybot and other similar programs will report tracking cookies and leftover registry entries as threats. What did it detect that was missed by OneCare other than tracking cookies?

      -steve

         
      • Saturday, 3 November 2007 8:58 AM
         
         
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        unfortunatly i do not have a record of the adware that was found.  my computer has just been returned from being "cleaned" and they had found the list of adware and removed it.

         

        Dick