Matthew Fries wrote...

>...I tried to delete the
>adware manually (i.e., stop the process, then delete the file), but it kept
>respawning immediately!

That tactic seems more and more common these days: a virus or
other scumware will have several, cooperative processes running
simultaneously, each one monitoring the others and watching out
for any attempts to stop them or delete the files.  Unless you
can get ALL of them stopped at once, you can't ever get rid of
the thing.

>I went to www.sysinternals.com and downloaded Process Explorer. I used it to
>kill the parent process of the adware, then ran ad-aware and spybot to clean
>up the files. IT WORKED! The process was unable to respawn, and I got rid of
>it. Try it!

Thanks, I'll do that.

Dave D.

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