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BlackSword
11-14-02, 07:25 AM
Both my kids have their own RIG, and I don't get too hung up on what they have on them.

Well I finally talked my daughter into getting rid of kazaa and removing all that spyware from her rig. In the process of doing so things got pretty messy.

I downloaded a product called BPS Spyware and Adware remover 2.5 has a trial period and thought what the heck would try it out. I first ran it on my RIG and it found no registry keys but found 28 possible files. I pressed next removed everything and all was good.

Next I figured great run it on her RIG. It found tons of Registry keys and files......... proceeded to remove them and Bang it couldn't finish removing all the entries. Tried again and NO GO.

Figured no big deal.... :rolleyes: ... well now she cannot be seen or see any network shares, plus cant online game..... oddly enough Explore didn’t work at first but somehow started working again.

Now I still thought no big deal would clean things up with some other utilities I have. So obviously went to copy them over with a floppy disk and NO GO(floppy drive is screwy). lol,, and I did lol,, thought boy this is a pain.

Proceeded to try and uninstall TCP/IP,,, system won't let that happen either.

This was all last night,,, didn't have time this morning,,,, but I think my next step is to reinstall OS (by the way is XP pro)

I guess I am just curious if anyone else has fallen into this trap?

Plus whats the deal with not being able to uninstall TCP/IP?
BrianG
11-14-02, 11:42 PM
Uninstall:

New. Net

and a few others that Kazaa puts on that won't show up as Spyware.
Hmmm, those kill broadband connections alot. I'll try to remember more later.
Not a newb, just on this site.
HTH
BrianG
11-14-02, 11:43 PM
Uninstall:

New. Net

and a few others that Kazaa puts on that won't show up as Spyware.
Hmmm, those kill broadband connections alot. I'll try to remember more later.
Not a newb, just on this site.
HTH
Norm
11-14-02, 11:55 PM
www.lavasoftusa.com, look for Adaware.
Install it and scan for spyware. it'll remove them all.

It will usually restore winsock as well.
BlackSword
11-15-02, 07:32 PM
Thanks for the replys,,,

Yes I tried lavasofts Adware also.

I probably spent 3 or 4 hours trying to restore that system....didn't hear from anyone in time so I formatted and re-installed the OS,,,, I decided to go back to Win2000 on that rig. Only took a little over an hour and I had OS up and running with all Windows updates and Office loaded back in and CS back up:) and share printers redefined(that rig has the 2 printers and a scanner,, shared with all my other PCs)

Man you just have to love High speed internet,,, downloaded all the win2000 drivers and updates in a flash.

Now everything is great, and with the new install I feel nice and secure again :D Thanks again

P.S. Norm hows it goin, long time No see in a Post;) of course I have been busy too, probably just me.

Thanks again.
BlackSword
11-15-02, 07:35 PM
Originally posted by BlackSword
..... oddly enough Explore didn’t work at first but somehow started working again. I was wrong with that statement,,, Explore never did work again,, that is until I did the format and reinstall......;)