Removing the Evil

[azurelunatic]

Need to go do research on whatever the fuck bit of evil adware type thing it is that is transmitted via AIM, because I may well have it. Gods damn it.

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[rhonan.livejournal.com]

I've had very good luck removing adware and spyware by using a one-two punch of SpyBot Search & Destroy and AdAware. That's what we use internally in my department at work. Customer desktops we just re-image. I work in a banking environment, so we don't take any chances.

[wibbble]

*hugs his iMac*

*hugs iChat*

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[azurelunatic]

I already had AdAware, and thank you for the other recommendation! I've got that one now, and I'm definitely impressed.

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[sraun]

You could also check out http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite - he's got a web-based detector with pointers to lots of removal instructions & resources.

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[azurelunatic]

Thank you for the link. Search & Destroy cleared out a lot of interesting things, and I happily don't have those ad pages popping up anymore.