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corleone · #1 Post by **corleone** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:38 am

After allowing a collegue to use my thinkpad for the evening, she returned it to me with lots of adware.... now i get several pop ups when opening Internet Explorer...

I do not use a firewall (because i honestly dont know what that entials, and i use the preloaded virus software)

Can anyone recomend a good course of action for ad ware removal?

thanks,
C.

Deb Suran · #2 Post by **Deb Suran** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:14 am

AdAware
SpyBot
Download and run them both, they each find files the other does not.

hausman · #3 Post by **hausman** » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:27 am

Two products, both free.

Ad-Aware SE Personal http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spybot - Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/down ... tant1.html

Run one, then the other. That won't necessarily remove everything. To get rid of what's left, you'll probably need to Google around.

And the best way to stop this from happening again, apart from dismembering your colleague, is to stop using MS IE and get a secure browser http://www.mozilla.org/

corleone · #4 Post by **corleone** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:50 am

thanks fo rthe replies...

What do you use as an alternative to MS IE?
C.

jjackson02 · #5 Post by **jjackson02** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:33 am

God that's annoying isn't it? I have a cousin that uses my computes and does the same thing, every time without fail

hausman · #6 Post by **hausman** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:38 am

corleone wrote:What do you use as an alternative to MS IE?

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