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hi colin its ok i am still smiling are you tracey

hi colin that is ok just not noticed it before tracey

hi colin no but tonight i have noticed that some times when i use the reply or refresh it takes me back to page 1 of this thread tracey hi judy

Hey Guys....Tech are all out on the street at the moment but will advise as soon as one gets back and suggests what to do....I'm sure one of them has the solution. Back at you as soon as I can....may seem like ions on your end because of time difference. Judy :(

hi colin smiling right back at you tracey

hi colin why do you think nothing else you and judy have suggested and the other programs can not find this one tracey

hi colin nothing there either now i feel like a pest tracey

hi colin do you mean like the ones i did for judy tracey

hi colin and judy i did as you asked judy and all it came up with was parasite seek seek, object name 579aoe747-386, location hkey classes, type registry, danger severe, home page hijacker may redirect page www.searchv.com may also send information back to its parent company tracey

Before playing in registry keys, run the Spyware Hunter again. When it brings up the item seek seek, place your mouse on the item found and RIGHT click on it. It will then show you that path needed to find and delete or uninstall it. This one is apparently a program....just hidden. You may not have to right click on seek seek, Spyware Hunter should be showing you where the program is....just like when I asked you to advise exactly what the file name and location was. Advise Colin or myself of the file path and one of us will walk you through to remove. If that fails to remove it, then I would try the registry key path..... Judy

hi colin yes please i am so sorry for being such a pest tracey

hi colin he is not there either but why is it that only spy hunter is finding it and not spybot or adaware nor are we tracey

hi colin did as you said but could not find anything with seek in name but when i did it scan said seek seek was in classes should i try that one off those boxes tracey

hi judy thanks the two have now gone but i still got that seek seek on spy hunter none of the others have been able to find it though this is the one that really worries me tracey

Tracey: This one should be easy enough...it doesn't appear to be a program as it is not an exe file. To get rid of 1 location c:\windows\favorites\media the name nbc video seeker Do this: 1. Click on START. 2. Click on MY COMPUTER (My computer icon may also be on your desktop.) 3. Click on LOCAL HARD DRIVE C 4. Click on the yellow folder labeled WINDOWS. 5. Click on FAVORITES 6. RIGHT click on MEDIA THE NAME NBC VIDEO SEEKER. 7. A drop down box will appear. If one of the options here is UNINSTALL, click on it and follow the prompts to uninstall. If UNINSTALL in not an option, simply delete it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- To get rid of 2 c:\windows\profiles\tracey\favorites\media the name nbc video seeker 1. Click on START. 2. Click on MY COMPUTER (My computer icon may also be on your desktop.) 3. Click on LOCAL HARD DRIVE C 4. Click on the yellow folder labeled WINDOWS. 5. Click on PROFILES 6. Click on TRACEY 7. Click on FAVORITES 8. RIGHT click on MEDIA THE NAME NBC VIDEO SEEKER. 9. A drop down box will appear. If one of the options here is UNINSTALL, click on it and follow the prompts to uninstall. If UNINSTALL in not an option, simply delete it. The items have been deleted to your recycling bin. Delete your recycling bin and run Adaware. The NBC seeker should be gone now. Judy :)

hi judy sorry not beenback in touch but out all day saterday. did as you asked and the results are as follows found two 1 location c:\windows\favorites\media the name nbc video seeker 2 c:\windows\profiles\tracey\favorites\media the name nbc video seeker

hi colin sorry not been back in touch but out all day saterday i have run adaware, spy bot, spy hunter and norman seek seek still there but can only find it with spy hunter spy hunter will not let me do anything with it as i have not got full package with them as you need cridit card and i do not have one as i don't like them any suggestions tracey

Tracey: By "seek seek" do you mean that, that is the item you can't get rid of? I am going to assume since it was not removable by all that Colin has suggested, that it must be a program that installed itself and you need to uninstall it. Do the following to locate it first and then I can most likely advise, step by step, how to get rid of it. If it's a program, like I suspect, Norton won't get rid of it because it's not a virus.....same with Adaware, it's not spyware but a program. Did you, by any chance, update your Internet Explorer from a site other than the Microsoft Update site? To search for the file do this: 1. Click on START. 2. Click on SEARCH 3. Click on ALL FILES AND FOLDERS 4. To the left of your screen are 3 fields. The first one, where it says ALL OR PART OF THE FILE NAME, type in the name of the file you wish to find on your hard drive. 5. The 2nd field, where it says A WORD OR PHRASE IN THE FILE, leave it blank 6. In the 3rd field, where it says LOOK IN, if LOCAL HARD DRIVE C is not already showing there, use the “V” at the end of the field, scroll and click on LOCAL HARD DRIVE C so that it now appears in the 3rd field. 7. Click on SEARCH. 8. The search results will be listed. Find the name of the file you searched for, place your mouse over the name of the file and RIGHT click on it. Drop down box will appear and at the bottom of the box is PROPERTIES. Click on PROPERTIES. 9. Now a box pops up and there are tabbed labels at the top. Click on GENERAL (it’s probably already showing the GENERAL tab information when the box popped up.) 10. Look for LOCATION and advise me of what it says. It will look something like: C:/Program/ BlahBlahBlah/SEEK SEEK. 11. Also note and advise on what the complete name of the file is....this would be the first thing listed on the GENERAL tab page. What I need to know here is if the name of the program is seekseek.exe as this would indicate a type of program and helps on how to go about getting rid of it. Knowing where the file is, is half the battle.....then we can work on removing it.....DON'T delete....if it is a program it has to be UNINSTALLED. Make sure you type back your response showing it exactly the way it shows in LOCATION so I can follow the file path to advise you how to get rid of it. Let me know how you make out.....Judy:)

hi colin judy and brian thank you all very much for your help tracey

h colin just finished doing all that you told me to do but still have seek seek i have tried adaware, norman, spy hunter and spy sweeper but cannot get rid off it anymore suggestions please tracey