Major PC Problems , 63 Spyware Appz Found in My OS XP Pro

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Posted by Rostros on Feb-20-2003 12:02:

Major PC Problems , 63 Spyware Appz Found in My OS XP Pro

Jesus , Ive had computer problems before this takes the piss, Im running

AMD ATHLON 1GHZ
20 GB HDD IDE
40 GB HDD IDE
48X SPEED CD/CDR
48X SPEED DVD ROM
256MB RAM ETC ETC

OS : XP PROFESSIONAL

My Broadband speed has gone so slow i mean from 40-60k/s , to 4/5 K/s , My PC Keeps Powering Off after a certain time, causing scan disk to appear everytime, last night , i couldn't load any apps or access my cdroms , ive done a virus scan and found nothing. so basically where the hell do you start. ive checked for conflicts and found nothing , ive check my startup files and all clean , ive done a defrag and a scandisk and still nothing, then i noticed lots of System Processes in the Task Manager, At least 40 API Processes Not Apps here, programs like dwinn ? etc, my CPU was going crazy like 60% constant , and i had nothing running I decided to do a system restore on the XP PRO OS , I went restored all my system files from January the 6th , rebooted , something started to work again but others didn't. I ask a local friend and he said try ADWARE 6 Tool which scans for Spyware inside you HDD, I ran the tool and i was amazed on what it round there was

63 Traces of Spyware , From GATOR to Tracewin ? And lots more, there was 6 Applications stored all over the place , Registry , System folder, Anyways I cleaned them all up and now everything is running smooth as a bird.

check your Hard Disk with ADWARE .!!!

Posted by RedLunatik on Feb-20-2003 12:06:

does adware really work
i think that just ads to your spy ware

thats why its called ADware
coincidence
i think not

Posted by nekholm on Feb-20-2003 12:24:

The program is called Ad-Aware, and that's just what it does, awares you of adware and spyware.

Posted by DrUg_Tit0 on Feb-20-2003 12:56:

Go to http://www.lavasoft.de and download ad-aware. It's a nice program which removes all those spyware/adware programs.

Posted by Drifter on Feb-20-2003 14:32:

i just found errrr 212 on my system...now it runs great

Posted by jon on Feb-20-2003 16:52:

spyware is evil! beware of what programs you run on ur pc , such as kazza, morphious etc as well as emails your friends may send u of "dancing sheep" or similar, although they appear harmless they install evil spyware

Posted by sooper on Feb-20-2003 17:07:

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing - i've been stressing on how to clean all that shit of my machine!

YA!

Posted by beema on Feb-20-2003 17:12:

Yup, add-aware OWNZ
I've known about this beauty for some time now, and it has helped me a lot!

Posted by DaveSZ on Feb-20-2003 19:06:

I would use this program......
Turn on your speakers......

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&category=31542

Posted by abracadabra on Feb-20-2003 19:23:

Here try this one also! finds spyware that ad-aware fails to find.

Posted by cheesenip on Feb-20-2003 19:57:

yea have had it for about 6 months now.

Posted by quddha on Feb-20-2003 20:51:

yeah this prog rox. i run it 1nce a week.
stupid xupiter pisses me off the most.

Posted by bassaholix on Feb-20-2003 21:10:

Why does this feel like im watching The Big Hit...

AD-WARE Buster buster BUSTA!!! lmfao

Posted by Swamper on Feb-20-2003 21:21:

Don't be freaked out about the amount of things it finds - the ones you should worry more about are registry entries and actual files...

Cookies (usually the bulk of what it finds) from advertising sites are no biggie.

Posted by zarathustra on Feb-21-2003 10:33:

I also use RegCleaner for, what else, the registry.