Well if you're gonna nuke it all anyway and reinstall windows XP.... may as well learn a little along the way. Try disabling any startup program that doesn't look too important and see what happens. Worst case you'll f-disk and reinstall. Best case you'll fix it and not need to. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Dilatush" To: Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [OT:] Adware Aggrevations > Russell McMahon wrote... > > >If you are down to the one intractable program now, how about giving us as > >much information as you can and seeing if we can't beat it together. > > I suspect "one intractable program" might be a bit optimistic; > let's say the steps I've taken so far have resulted in a > significant reduction in the annoyance. But after running > Adaware, Spybot S&D and Mcafee multiple times, they ALWAYS still > report bad stuff on the next run-- even if I've disconnected from > the network while running them. (That seems to be the case with > the complainant in the www.computercops.biz link you posted, > too.) > > Part of the problem here, is that I am PROFOUNDLY paranoid about > tinkering around with the innards of Windoze. I've had a lot of > experience with it in the past, ALL of it disastrous. I seem to > have an uncommon talent for screwing up my computer and have > learned simply to refrain from messing with anything as it always > seems to make things worse no matter how clever or careful I > think I am. > > I appreciate the suggestions you presented, and will keep your > post for future reference. The "45 Magnum" idea seems a bit > dire, though, as I'd have to go out and buy one. I do have a .22 > Browning which works fine for murdering tin cans, perhaps that > would suffice? > > Thanks, > > Dave D. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.