Hi Dave, Sometimes doing a system restore helps, but since this has been going on a while you may need go back a ways in your restore settings. How far back do they go? Do you have XP SP1?
Another thing to try is to manually clean up your machine. Get rid of all temp files, cookies that are scattered about, histories, and so forth. Do you know how to do that? What settings are you using with Spybot? It took a while for me to figure out what works best, but that was mostly for maintenance as my machine is pretty clean. Every day I delete the crap, run the spy protection programs, and check the machine for what may be troublesome files. I also clean out the registry every so often with Norton's WinDoc. Also, a lot of the free spyware cleaners and blockers add spyware to your system, and screw it up even further. Just read a series of articles about that in a couple of computer magazines. Try Webroot's Spysweeper. Between that, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Earthlink's little standalone program (SpyAudit), you should be OK once you get your machine cleaned up. Be careful about downloading free programs to your machine. They are often a lot of trouble. Drop me a note if you need specifics about files, cookies, and so on. Maybe I can help, point you to a few specific URL's ... I'm no expert, just a bit compulsive. Shel > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sorry for the repeat OT.Looking for a little more guidance here. > > So i downloaded Ad Aware and it found a bunch of stuff which i quarantined. I then > downloaded Spybot,it found a bunch more but quits 1/2 way through the removal part. > > Friday my shortcut to my internet connection would not work,so i had to make a new one(yup > i know > how to do that.lol) and when i brought up my IE 6 i had lost all my history and popups > came in faster > than i could close them. Its a nightmare i have never had to go through before on this > computer. > I checked and my conection is armed for MS firewall,but still getting through. > Loaded Googles popup tool,but it does not stop them just puts them in the bottom tool > bar,but it really > slows the connections down,which i'm sure you all know. > > I'm on XP home,clone PC, still running original SP but have ordered the SP 2 from MS. > > Anything i should be adding for security here. I have run virus scan(Norton)and am up to > date. I have > DLed several of the newer removal tools and nothing has been found. > > I'm going nuts here. > > Any help is app. > > Dave > >
