I have spysweeper and I have norton. When I sweep with norton they don't find anything, but with spyweeper, I get rxtoolbar adware everyday when I sweep it. And I know it's in my registry. I read up on how to remove it, but it won't tell me the actual path or location when it finds the adware in the sweep...And I know I need that to remove it from the registry. Does anyone know some kind of better alternative or easier way to do so, I'm not an expert with messing with stuff like that and I don't want to screw up the registry because I know that I will dig myself in a bigger hole. I have windows xp service pack 2. Oh, I clear my cache, my history, cookies, and temp files daily...
2006-10-21 03:29:12 · 3 answers · asked by Dr. PHILlis (in training) 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
try Spybot search and Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/
Or adaware personal: http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
They're (mostly) automated and free antispyware scanners.
good luck!
2006-10-21 03:31:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Great question. I'm sure a lot of people would like to have help with theirs as well. You can go to www.google.com and in the search box type in registry cleaner and it will take you to page after page of programs that are offered and most have a free trial which will only remove 15 to 20 problems that it found on your system and will do it's best to sell you on the product so that you can fix the rest of the registry problems. Upon looking closely at the list of problems that it had found on my system, I found out that I could "right click" on each of the problems and then remove the "key" or the "value" as suggested by the program. If it says to solve that particular item by removing the key..do that..if it says remove the value, do it. You'll soon have the entire list handled and from then on, it will become a quick and simple scan for you. Great Question. Larry (RadioShack 01-9590)
2006-10-21 03:54:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
What I would do is take the program off your computer by doing the following:
Click on:
START
Control Panel
Add or Remove Programs
Ad-Aware SE Personal
Remove
This worked for me!
2006-10-21 03:57:03 · answer #3 · answered by Sue 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋