unwanted icons on desk top

by mike jeziorski » Fri, 02 Apr 2004 05:28:12 GMT



can't permanently remove Explorer icons for "strip
poker", " Viagra videos" upon startup....have deleted
many times, but always re-appear on re boot....???



Re: unwanted icons on desk top

by Phil (a.k.a. purplehaz) » Fri, 02 Apr 2004 05:46:07 GMT



Sounds like spyware or a home page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

mike jeziorski wrote:
> can't permanently remove Explorer icons for "strip
> poker", " Viagra videos" upon startup....have deleted
> many times, but always re-appear on re boot....???





Re: unwanted icons on desk top

by Jim Macklin » Fri, 02 Apr 2004 05:47:51 GMT



Get SpyBot Search & Destroy from www.safer-networking.org
after you install it, run the update and then scan your
system. It is free.


"mike jeziorski" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote
in message
| can't permanently remove Explorer icons for "strip
| poker", " Viagra videos" upon startup....have deleted
| many times, but always re-appear on re boot....???





unwanted icons on desk top

by MAP » Fri, 02 Apr 2004 05:50:24 GMT




>-----Original Message-----
> can't permanently remove Explorer icons for "strip
[...]
>.
>Have you scaned for ad/spyware?


http://www.safer-networking.org/ Spybot
www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
http://www.lavasoft.de/ Ad-aware
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html (CWS)cool web
shedder and hijack this
www.spywareinfo.com/forums/