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Problem ridding my PC of adware

Markybhoy (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Friday, 16th September 2005, 22:49

Hi, my pc has been infected with adware called 180 search assistant and another called The Best Offers. I`ve tried various killers and uninstalling via control panel add remove but no good. Every time I start xp there they are again. Apart from wiping the hard drive and re installing xp can anybody suggest a solution.
Thanks
Mark.

RE: Problem ridding my PC of adware

slipperysam (Elite) posted this on Friday, 16th September 2005, 23:17

First see here.

Then download "HijackThis" from here.

Run "HijackThis" on your PC and copy the log file into here and remove any entries in HijackThis that the log file analyser says are definitely spyware (plus any others that obviously shouldn`t be there). Make sure that you only remove entries that you are sure shouldn`t be there. I use it all the time.

Sam.

RE: Problem ridding my PC of adware

W@yne (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 17th September 2005, 00:28

Turn off system restore before you remove them.

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