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[Bob]

I did get rid of this curse but! I will begin with how to
get rid of what is them. According to Symantec (norton)
anti virus, click the start button, go to programs, look
for GAIN* and then "about GAIN" then click "supported
product or service". Write down the names of the GAIN-
enabled programs. Then close all programs. Then click
start again and go to settings, then control panel, then
to add/remove programs and remove the programs you wrote
down. This may get rid of programs you want like mine
were "Kazaa, "Dash Bar" and "Precision Time", these use
adware to sponsor their web-site and when adware gets in
your anti-virus does not like it because the program
contains "*.gator.com" where * is anything on port 80 and
it will submit your web browsing habits to this server and
then download ads from it.
My problem is after I did this my taskbar went crazy.
When I adjust the width it goes into a non response mode
and if I try to play with it all of a sudden the "start
button goes white and the other icons disappear. Then it
is as if the bar were not there. I can't even right click
to get properties, its like that part of the screen did
not exist although the bar is still there visually.
any suggestions Bob

[glee]

Follow this procedure after doing a full-system virus scan with the latest updates:

Use CWShredder, the CoolWeb removal tool, available here:
http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/CWShredder.exe
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

In addition, install Ad-Aware 6 free edition, start it, click its 'Check for
Updates' link in the app to install updates, then use it to scan your system, and
remove what it finds.
Ad-Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Install, update and run SpyBot Search & Destroy, scan your system, and then remove
the items in RED only.
SpyBot S&D:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/HijackThis.exe
Unzip to a folder other than your Desktop or the Temp folder, doubleclick
HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log"
button.
Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or
similar).
Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything yet.

Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these forums:
http://forum.aumha.org/
http://forums.net-integration.net/
http://computercops.biz/forums.html
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=30
http://tomcoyote.org/forums/
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com
http://boards.cexx.org/

The folks there will tell you what to remove.

A tutorial for using Hijack This is located here:
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Bob" > wrote in message
...
> I did get rid of this curse but! I will begin with how to
> get rid of what is them. According to Symantec (norton)
> anti virus, click the start button, go to programs, look
> for GAIN* and then "about GAIN" then click "supported
> product or service". Write down the names of the GAIN-
> enabled programs. Then close all programs. Then click
> start again and go to settings, then control panel, then
> to add/remove programs and remove the programs you wrote
> down. This may get rid of programs you want like mine
> were "Kazaa, "Dash Bar" and "Precision Time", these use
> adware to sponsor their web-site and when adware gets in
> your anti-virus does not like it because the program
> contains "*.gator.com" where * is anything on port 80 and
> it will submit your web browsing habits to this server and
> then download ads from it.
> My problem is after I did this my taskbar went crazy.
> When I adjust the width it goes into a non response mode
> and if I try to play with it all of a sudden the "start
> button goes white and the other icons disappear. Then it
> is as if the bar were not there. I can't even right click
> to get properties, its like that part of the screen did
> not exist although the bar is still there visually.
> any suggestions Bob
>