Zseni wrote:

curst wrote:

It *sounds* like you're not using this, you crazy luddite. It's a thing of stunning beauty and should come with Windows as a standard utility right alongside Notepad. Assuming it does take care of BackWeb (no way to know until you try, unfortunately, but what the hell, it's a free download), it'll *really* get the job done. With some of the sneakier spyware programs, you can't simply expect to delete a few files and have the problem solved... indeed it sounds like your computer's still got, say, a registry entry that refers to a program that's no longer there, which at the very least is probably leading to error messages.

Be sure to get the updater program though - without it, AdAware had no idea that the x10.com ads I was getting were spyware and did nothing to stop them. Once I updated, the problem was completely wiped out. So it appears that the basic program download uses a really outdated reference file.

It didn't pick up the BackWeb thing, which has been on the comp for probably three weeks or so. Like a good girl I do a weekly scan.

Anyway NEXT.