Or you could look up the specified removal procedure:

http://www.xp-vista.com/spyware-removal/antispyware-xp-2009-removal-instructions-antispywarexp-2009

Danny

Jeff Findley wrote:
> "Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@ugs.com> wrote in message 
> news:gd87p2$cmi$1@ger.gmane.org...
>   
>> However, our three XP boxes at home have all been fine.  I believe that's 
>> because firewalls and anti-virus programs have gotten better over the 
>> years and they are perhaps better integrated into XP than Win98SE.
>>     
>
> That is, until this weekend.  :-(
>
> My daughter installed some sort of "dress up program" on the kids' PC and it 
> got some "XP Antispyware 2009" application installed.  This thing is very 
> nasty.  It installs fake spyware and then runs a "scan" and tries to get you 
> to pay them to fix the spyware they installed.  Those bastards!
>
> I finally gave up and re-installed XP.  Of course, that's why the kids have 
> a PC separate from mine, which I use for work, and my wife's, which she uses 
> for pictures and non-work related projects.
>
> Right now the kids will have to suffer without a PC since they're not 
> touching mine or my wife's without supervision.
>
> Jeff
>   

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