adware generic : KIU?
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try lavasoft Adware SE Personal
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use avg, ad aware, & spy bot search and destroy as well... all free all really good
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I'm using a free software called AD Aware which scans for spyware/adware and and enables me to delete them. It's suppose to be the best. So I'm not afraid of such software anymore.  \n  Only thing is, I'm not sure if AD Aware scans itself. Just joking !
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Try using this.\n\nLavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal\nAVG Free Antivirus.
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I use both Ad-Aware and Spybot Seek & Destroy. They each find stuff that the other doesn't, but together form a very good team. Both free downloads are linked below.
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Try some of these:\n\nSpyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers, Keyloggers, Popups:\nhttp://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3003-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=tab_rev\nhttp://www.ewido.net/en/download/\nhttp://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html\nhttp://www.download.com/Bazooka-Adware-and-Spyware-Scanner/3000-8022-10247782.html\nhttp://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/\nhttp://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10379544.html\nhttp://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/\nOnline Scanners:\nhttp://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/freescan.html?\nhttp://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx\nhttp://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm\nhttp://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html\nhttp://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/\nhttp://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner\nhttp://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php\nhttp://housecall65.trendmicro.com/\nSpyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers, Keyloggers, Popups Lists:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/104\nhttp://www.download.com/Adware-Spyware-Removal/3150-8022_4-0.html?tag=dir\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html\nhttp://www.filehippo.com/software/antispyware/setarea\nhttp://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/AntiSpyware/3-9-0-0.html\nAntivirus:\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5\nhttp://www.avast.com/\nhttp://www.free-av.com/\nhttp://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-8-Free-Edition.html\nAntivirus Lists:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/1\nhttp://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239_4-0.html?tag=dir\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads29.html\nhttp://www.filehippo.com/software/antivirus/\nhttp://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/Antivirus/3-1-0-0.html\nFirewall:\nhttp://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en&lid=staticcomp_za\nFirewall Lists:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/97\nhttp://www.download.com/Firewalls/3150-10435_4-0.html?tag=dir\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads34.html\nhttp://www.filehippo.com/software/firewalls/\nhttp://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/Firewalls/3-5-0-0.html\nIP Blocker:\nhttp://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/peerguardian/pg2-050918-nt.exe?download\nBrowser:\nhttp://www.mozilla.com/firefox/\nEmail, News, RSS:\nhttp://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/\nSystem Cleaner:\nhttp://www.ccleaner.com/\nSystem Cleaning List:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/98\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads12.html\nhttp://www.filehippo.com/software/cleaning/\nSystem Info:\nhttp://www.softpedia.com/catList/92\nhttp://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads9.html\nhttp://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/System_Utilities/System_Tools/3-50-0-0.html
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The best freeware adware/spyware removal tools are:\n\nSpybot S&D, get it here:\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/\n\nLavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal, Get it here:\nhttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/\n\nGood Luck
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Ad-Aware SE Personal\n\nhttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
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Sounds like spy-ware.  Download Ad-Aware, Spy-bot and Microsoft Anti-Spy-ware. You can get these at majorgeeks.com, make sure you download the right thing, it can be kinda tricky. Also run an on-line spy-ware scan at www.ewido.net. Hope that helps.
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Ad-Aware Personal provides advanced protection from known data-mining, aggressive advertising, Trojans, dialers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components. This software is downloadable free of charge. \n Down load at this link ;\nhttp://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
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Try using GAIM (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/about.php). It takes a little bit to get to used to if you have been using AIM for awhile. However, it has much more functionality and more features. Not to mention no adware...
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they'll probably give u a free trojan and adware sample ... but honestly i dont know ...
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Way back in February, I had done a similar report and posted it on a forum which you can find at http://desiboard.us/bb/viewtopic.php?t=36018&\n\nMay be you need to register to view it, but it sure is soething very informative and on the point.\n\nOr may be you can get in touch with me on Yahoo. Get hold of me at surajsun_92[a]yahoo.com\n\nIt begins like ....\n\nFirst of all you should understand what types of threats are there on the net...\nWhile most users are aware of virus and worms threat, they usually overlook the other biggest threat ie the spywares.\n\nWhat are spywares ?\nSpywares are programs that get installed on your computer without your knowledge and collect data about your usage patterns like what sites you visit, what programs you run, even your personal details like age, gender and financial details too : all those things that can be useful for a marketing company to send you customized advertising. These programs send this data back to their websites where they are given to spammers and advertisers. All these things happen without the user's knowledge and that is the most ironical point of the story.\n\nCategories of spywares:\n\n>> Adwares:\nAdwares usually monitors your usage patterns and show you ads corresponding to them. Adwares are usually installed as freewares and it is quoted in their EULA (End User License Agreement) that the program will show relevant ads.\nMany of the adwares are freeware version of programs which are availible as paid versions. Examples of these programs : Opera, Divx, Download Accelerator Plus, Flashget etc. While these programs specifically tells the user that they can upgrade to their paid version if they dont want to get these advertisements but not every adware is like that.\n\n>> Browser Hijackers:\nThis is a broad category in which parasites like home page hijackers and search hijackers can be included.\n    >> Home page hijackers change the start page of the user's browser to some specific sites and some notorious of these are very difficult to remove.\n    >> Search hijackers change the search behaviour of the user's browser and when user searches for something on the Internet, these search sites give them the results.\n    \nUsually both of the hijackers stated above work on clickthrough systems. Here they are affiliates to other companies which give them money according to the hits they recieve through them. So, the ultimate goal of hijackers is to make the users click on the links through which they earn their revenue. As this is a difficult task, the program authors go extreme ways to achieve it and create difficult to remove parasites. Recent examples of such parasite are CoolWebSearch and AboutBlank.\n\n>> Dialers:\nDialers are programs that promise to make some "premium content" availible to the users by making calls through them. All their objective is to make the users dial the number which are usually long distance numbers of their affiliates.\n\n>> Tracking Cookies:\nCookies were meant to be used for customizing the websites according to the user's preferences. But marketing companies found another use of them. This useful feature is being abused by marketing companies by putting "third party cookies". Third party cookies means cookies stored by websites other than you are visiting - most often put through banners and ad rotators. These cookies can keep track of what sites you visit that contains their ads.........
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I am sure you got all your Ad-Aware programs and Anti-virus etc.\nAdd this too.\n\nArrange-startup\nget it at CNET.com under downloads, it'll take care of whats in your Startup already.
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try ad-aware and/or spybot s&d. if that doesn't work, get hijackthis. also, make sure your windows patches are up to date as well as your virus protection.
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Use Adaware:\n\nhttp://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
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The guy that mentioned the adware is probably right. Those types of programs (cutesy cursors, free screen savers) are usually also monitoring your surfing habits and reporting back to an ad server so that they can send you targeted advertisements in addition to the ones you'd normally see on a web site. \n\nYour newer computer is probably more likely to have some sort of adware/spyware blocker on it (Microsoft started including one of its own within the last year or two), and *that* could be blocking the installation... although if that were the case, I would also expect you would see a popup warning message from the adware blocker, so I dunno if that's what's happening or not.\n\nBottom line, though, is your computer is much better off without it. Might I suggest some adware-free smileys?\n\nhttp://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/ascii/smileys.html