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ben
May 20th 04, 08:41 PM
picked up an old pc for kids to play around on.
pent 133...and just installed windows 98 SE
I've cleaned most of the old stuff up....ran spybot and ad-aware.....spybot's picked up this download accelerator plus ads and can't seem to get rid of it.
I had it run on start up(seems htese ads were writing to the hard drive while in operation and gave me the option to run on start up) but....still finds it and can't remove it for some reason.
I'm having difficulties finding this adware/spyware.
Any ideas?
Thanx!!

Ron Badour
May 20th 04, 09:23 PM
Look on the add-remove screen and see if it can be uninstalled from there.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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Knowledge Base Info:
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"ben" > wrote in message
...
> picked up an old pc for kids to play around on.
> pent 133...and just installed windows 98 SE
> I've cleaned most of the old stuff up....ran spybot and
ad-aware.....spybot's picked up this download accelerator plus ads and can't
seem to get rid of it.
> I had it run on start up(seems htese ads were writing to the hard drive
while in operation and gave me the option to run on start up) but....still
finds it and can't remove it for some reason.
> I'm having difficulties finding this adware/spyware.
> Any ideas?
> Thanx!!
>

ben
May 20th 04, 09:56 PM
unfortunately no...it's not there

Ron Badour
May 20th 04, 10:26 PM
Try this: CWShredder:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html (download link near
the bottom)

If this CW doesn't do it, go here and read the instructions on HiJack This
and post the results to one
of the recommended sites:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm



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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"ben" > wrote in message
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> unfortunately no...it's not there
>

glee
May 21st 04, 12:20 PM
There's a 'manual removal' section on this page -
Download Accelerator Plus:
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/d/download_accelerator_plus.asp
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"ben" > wrote in message
...
> picked up an old pc for kids to play around on.
> pent 133...and just installed windows 98 SE
> I've cleaned most of the old stuff up....ran spybot and ad-aware.....spybot's
picked up this download accelerator plus ads and can't seem to get rid of it.
> I had it run on start up(seems htese ads were writing to the hard drive while in
operation and gave me the option to run on start up) but....still finds it and can't
remove it for some reason.
> I'm having difficulties finding this adware/spyware.
> Any ideas?
> Thanx!!