Re: Surf Sidekick removal...
From: wd10 (nospam_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 09/22/05
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:11:38 -0400
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:55:46 +0000, Phillip wrote:
> This is the second time in a week my computer's been infected with spyware,
> the first time was Zenon or something similar which I managed to remove,
> and now it's Surf Sidekick which I can't remove no matter how hard I try.
>
> I've already tried Hijack This! as suggested by a number of websites, but
> each time I delete the several entries they re-appear instantly. Ad-Aware
> seems to have gone commercial and my reference file won't update since
> last October, and SpyBot made things worse by freezing my computer up with
> hundreds of alerts about attempted registry changes.
Are you using Internet Explorer? That is usually the problem when you
get spyware. Either that or file sharing. You should use Firefox and it
will prevent most spyware from installing:
http://www.getfirefox.com
> Also, I've downloaded several copies of Linux images that fit on a single
> CD-ROM in an attempt to boot off CD into Linux to remove the files
> manually, but even though F12 offers an option to boot off CD, it never
> does and always boots directly into Windows. Why?
How did you burn the images? Did you just copy the ISO files to the CD,
or did you use a program to make a disk from the image? A list of
programs is here:
http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm
You can't just copy the ISO file onto the disk as if they were regular
files.
After you use Knoppix to save your files, why not just install Linux? Try
SLAX or Ubuntu. You can still run a lot of your windows programs under
Linux. No more spyware...
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