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  • #46
    You can always buy a new computer if it doesn't work out.
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    • #47
      Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
      come on, is it okay just to delete the folder?
      Probably not. It can be resident in a number of places or pop up elsewhere.
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      • #48
        er thanks.......
        Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

        Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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        • #49
          Try deinstalling in Safe Mode. If that fails, try to "acquire" the CD.

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          • #50
            Z your advice has been great, thanks
            Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

            Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
              You know, the people who make spyware, adware and malware are the same people who make spyware blockers. It's a racket. They sell the offending programs to marketers, then sell the cure to consumers. They then sell more sophisticated programs to the marketers and turn around and sell new protection to the consumers.

              You know, one of the peopel who make spyware ended up winning the gold medal for Australia, doing just that, causing pop-ups, then later offereing a pop-up blocker to stop it



              Winfixxer was always difficult when I was working inthe industry. It infects a windows file, that if erased, can crash the system (wininet.dll was it? I can't remember, it was long ago), and this fiel is required by many scanners to run properly.

              We usually had to write a custom cleaner for it.
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              • #52
                the main ad ware killers are onto it now

                I'm looking for a free good registry cleaner
                Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                • #53
                  Easycleaner: http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

                  It's my personal favorite. It's very easy (duh), but also not very aggressive so you don't run a chance it'll "overdelete".

                  If you're looking for a more preventive solution for the future, look into Regprot: http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=regprot

                  It monitors your registry and warns you when some application tries to enter information into the registry.
                  And it's Australian

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                  • #54
                    I think Tea Timer (part of Spybot S&D) also monitors writes to the registry.
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                    • #55
                      Tea Timer does monitor the registry, but not to a great extent. Besides, it takes 5 MB of memory to run Tea Timer, while Regprot only uses 120 KB

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