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colin we have run spy hunter and spy bot, ad awere and norman downloaded mirco soft critical patches thats all tracey

colin i will have to do this one tomorrow as hubby is days in morning and now got to go to bed as the baby wakes up with his alarm and that means mummy gets up to 4.30 not nice she goes back just as my other one gets up to go to school see you tomorrow thank you and good night tracey

Good Luck guys. Watching this closely - very interesting. Hang in there :-)) Kathy

WooHoo! I think I have the cure....I can't believe I didn't notice the obvious when the tech pointed it out. Thought for a second there that Colin and I were losing it! LOLOLOL! The file path you gave is incomplete. At any rate, it is a piece of spyware that is just being stubborn but should be easy enough to get rid of. First, make sure you update Adaware. Then you'll have to start your computer in SAFE MODE.....a diagnostics mode. Then run Adaware. When Adaware shows you the results of what is found, simply delete everything. Starting your computer in safe mode is easy....I have step by step directions for you, I just need you to let me know whether you have XP or Windows 98. The directives for this I will e-mail as the directives include pictures which can't be posted on the boards. I need you to contact me through GC sothat I have your actual e-mail address or contact me at: kabudy at c o m c a s t (.) net Judy :) Goog grief! It took me 6 tries to get that email address to post! A big hello to you Colin! ;)

Colin: Good Morning! With the part of the file path that was provided, it does appear to by spyware....a stubborn one. The Adaware, run in safe mode, SHOULD (famous last words!) remove it. The Adaware and safe mode options are already at her finger tips and easy enough to do. I'd do the Adaware in safe mode and if that doesn't do it, then I would go with program you suggested. Whatever is running in the background allowing the spyware to remain will be shut down in safe mode and Adaware shouldn't have a problem getting rid of it then. I have a computer class I am teaching today and I won't be "playing" online much.....if you don't mind, I will e-mail you with directions for safe mode for you to send along to Tracey as I can't send attachments through GC. (Two seperate documents, one for XP, the other for Windows 98/ME.) When you "see" her today on the boards, if she decides to go the Adaware/Safe Mode route, you can then forward her which ever document of the two she needs. Judy :)

hi colin see we might have him on the run now. i have windows ME. tracey

hi colin yes colin richards my hubby tracey

hi colin got email going to do it now speak to you in a bit tracey

hi colin you know how to make people smile. just checking i did this right followed all of judys directions and could not find ad aware so did search like the ones i have done for you and judy found ad aware and run it and it found nothing but guess what seek seek is still hiding some where tracey

hi colin i found it in safe mode in the search like i was doing for you as it was not on desktop tracey

colin we will try this one then get back to you soon tracey

I'm following all this with bated breath. Can I be naughtyColin and butt in with a question? I keep getting a sign up that says:- Do you wish to run ActiveX controls? I always press Yes, but nothing seems to happen and I seem to get it oh perhaps every ten minutes.. Just updating this - it actually says:- Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run? Norah

hi colin i have done it and still got it now i feel like banging head against very very very hard wall tracey

Greetings from this side, Colin! :)

Oh Colin Big hug......and many many thanks for your advice. I had been pushing the No box, then one day our son-in-law saw me doing it and said if it was him he would have pressed the 'yes' box, so I have been doing so ever since. But, as you may guess, I really didn't know what I was pressing yes to. It came up so frequently that it was getting very annoying. From now on then - it's a 'no-no' Yes, through following your 'column' on here I have downloaded Adaware, and it's super. My 'puter had got very slow, and now it is back to how it should be. When it quaratines things, is it quite safe to delete everything that it quaratines please? Many thanks again Colin, you are a 'STAR' And I do apologise for butting in on Tracey's troubles.

Hi Colin I have just read all the way through this thread. I am on Tony's computer because mine has gone in to the 'doctor'. Saturday am before going off to Hampshire to our daughters I read my e mails as usual. Nothing strange on there, didn't do anything unusual and shut the computer down as normal. Sunday evening when we got back, swithed the computer on ....nothing. It would not even open at all. I am waiting to know exactly what it was but my nice man said it was a type of virus, not infected by emailing. I think he was simplifying it for me don't you? I suspect it was some sort of dialer or hacker (and I don't agree with you I'm afraid, I can't admire people who cost me money and, what is worst, inconvenience). I have Norton and run adaware. Trojan has expired. My man is going to put a programme on that is part freeware and part share ware (don't ask me what), all I want now is for him to finish it and return it to me. I don't like using Tony's machine and don't have access to it all the time anyway because he wants to fly aeroplanes!!! Cheers, hope you solve Tracy's problem between you and Judy anyway. Ann Glos

hi colin how are you? nothing in the test that said sys.reg and yes i put the other one on yesterday.spy hunter says it is in hkey classes root interface that is on the bottom of the scan as it is doing it tracey

hi colin i did as you said but could not find internet explorer, i am on internet explorer not messenger. tracey

hi colin looked in 57aoe and found in the right hand box name default data "lflashaccessiblity" could not find 386 tracey

colin now i know i am not seeing things i will be pleased to get rid of it at last tracey