Spyware, Malware I can't get rid of

something called vroomsearch has downloaded itself onto my
computer. It continues to download files in my favorites
file, change my home page and my search engine settings.
NoAdware removes it but it continues to come back each
time IE is started. I have removed all temp files and
cleaned out cookie file. I have windows 98 so microsoft
anti spyware will not work. What do I do?

>-----Original Message-----
>something called vroomsearch has downloaded itself onto
my
>computer. It continues to download files in my favorites
>file, change my home page and my search engine
settings.
>NoAdware removes it but it continues to come back each
>time IE is started. I have removed all temp files and
>cleaned out cookie file. I have windows 98 so microsoft
>anti spyware will not work. What do I do?
>.
>-------Reply---------

Even if you had a very new computer system and say even
Windows XP home edition, MSAS still may very well not
remove your spy/adware: This has happened to me in my
case (ref "Tim" May 19, 2005 7:32 pm post) and many
others in this newsgroup and so maybe look for other
antispyware and wait until the final release of MSAS is
out. That's just my opinion. Although it's irritating
for all of us with spyware still on our systems (me too
still), I can see if MS does not reply directly to our
issues immediately; (maybe they run really lean also as a
corporation?) this would take up their time for getting
real work done on the final MSAS version to come out.
Finally, some say that generally PF8 at reboot might work
(it did not in my case but maybe for you). So I am just
living with irritating spyware for now. (annoying & not
happy!). Good Luck to you.

>-----Original Message-----
>something called vroomsearch has downloaded itself onto
my
>computer. It continues to download files in my favorites
>file, change my home page and my search engine
settings.
>NoAdware removes it but it continues to come back each
>time IE is started. I have removed all temp files and
>cleaned out cookie file. I have windows 98 so microsoft
>anti spyware will not work. What do I do?
>.
>
Try www.lavasoftusa.com. This is supposedly the #2
malware removal tool after Microsoft Antispyware from
what I can tell that the PC media community writes. So
since MS Antispyware did not work for my malware problems
(MSAS detected some small pieces of malware but removed
nothing) as well, I thought to try www.lavasoftusa.com.
It did work!!! So maybe it will work for you. Once in
the site go to "downloads" then turn off your pop-up
blocker and then follow the instructions very carefully
for downloading Ad-Aware SE Personal (the freeware
edition). I hope it works for you, DON'T WAIT AROUND as
this malware stuff seems to slowly take over more & more
of a computer the longer you wait even if one stops
visiting any websites.

Give these a try Cheryl:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com

Also check:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
--

Andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm

"Cheryl" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:161801c55e90$99ecc620$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> something called vroomsearch has downloaded itself onto my
> computer. It continues to download files in my favorites
> file, change my home page and my search engine settings.
> NoAdware removes it but it continues to come back each
> time IE is started. I have removed all temp files and
> cleaned out cookie file. I have windows 98 so microsoft
> anti spyware will not work. What do I do?

Cheryl wrote:
> something called vroomsearch has downloaded itself onto my
> computer. It continues to download files in my favorites
> file, change my home page and my search engine settings.
> NoAdware removes it but it continues to come back each
> time IE is started. I have removed all temp files and
> cleaned out cookie file. I have windows 98 so microsoft
> anti spyware will not work. What do I do?

Stop using NoAdaware! Do the following-
Virus Removal Instructions: http://home.neo.rr.com/manna4u/
-max
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You can find my e-mail address on my pages.
This message is virus free as far as I can tell.