Posted by so on May 24, 2005, at 17:29:38
In reply to green words in babble posts, posted by anastasia56 on May 24, 2005, at 13:26:56
AdAware Personal Edition is one of the better rated spyware detection utilities, but is reported to find only about 54 percent of common spyware exploits. A virus protection software like Norton can find others. Some sources recommend using several utilities to find and manage the range of exploits known to exist.
Sometimes effective removal requires inactivating the program from the current windows session -- the close program utility in Windows can be activated by simultaneously entering ctrl+alt+delete once --- twice will start a shutdown of your system.
In the Close programs dialogue, if you are the target of some exploit, it will often show up on the list - probably near the bottom. You can cut-and-paste each item from the list into a google search form and usually get quick information online about what is running in your system. If you find information in Google that says it is an exploit, select the item and then the button labeled "end task".
Another freeware, RegCleaner, lets you manually delete programs other utilities might not find. RegCleaner offers about six tabs, some of which let you delete necessary components. But the "start-up" tab returns a list where it easy see what is loaded when you start your computer - you only need system tray (systray), Explorere and vital utilities -- such as the auto-protect feature of your anti-virus software and your audio system management.
I would be interested to read the name of this exploit, which I suspect will show up near the bottom of a list of active programs if you review the close program dialogue. Also, are the highlighted terms pharmacogical terms, hyperlinked to some on-line drug sales site?
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