Thanks all for advice! I downloaded another two adware programs, but they
could not solve the problem. They took away the generated files, but never
removed the two .exe files: Neither could they be removed manually.
Norton detected the virus, but couldn't remove it. Finally I discovered
that Norton removed it when Windows was started in safe mode. Now happy again!
Klas.
At 17:08 2005-05-17, you wrote:
>At 08:15 AM 5/17/2005 -0400, Marty Michener wrote:
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> >I too use the Microsoft beta, plus the XP built-in firewall, plus Adaware,
> >plus Spybot S&D on all my XP computers. My anti-virus is Grisoft AVG.
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> My stuff, after extensive research: Grisoft AVG, Zone Alarm
> (firewall), Ad-Aware SE, Spybot S&D, CW Shredder (apparently the only one
> that detects the Cool Web Search trojan), but equally importantly, XP
> without Service Pack 2, Mozilla instead of IE Explorer, and Eudora
> instead of Outlook Express. For the individual home user, all of these
> programs are freeware.
> I don't get popups or viruses. My neighbor who uses Outlook
> Express, IE 6 and SP2 is so infested with spyware and viruses that he is
> considering the Nuclear Option. He has used Norton and McAfee packages
> and they aren't cutting it. I cleaned him out once and within days he was
> bugged up again. I just cleaned him out again, uninstalled McAfee, put in
> AVG and ZoneAlarm, deactivated automatic updates to SP2 and crossed my
> fingers. IMHO unless he backs out of SP2 and stops using MS surfing and
> email he will eventually go down again. Using Explorer and Outlook
> Express and blindly accepting updates to *any* program is like wearing a
> big Kick Me sign.
>
> -- Chuck
>
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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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