Files detected by Pest Patrol not found

I can't find three files that have been detected by Pest Patrol (free version)

windows@advertising[1].txt
windows@servedby.advertising[1].txt
windows@doubleclick[1].txt

I can't find them by opening the c:\windows\cookies\ folder,
or by using Windows Scout.
I also tried to make visible all invisible files for the map \cookies.

Pest Patrol says they're there, but I can't find them.
They're also invisible to the Cookiemonster program.

Also, there is a registry entry for Alexa Adware.

Alex

Alex wrote:
> I can't find three files that have been detected by Pest Patrol (free version)
>
> windows@advertising[1].txt
> windows@servedby.advertising[1].txt
> windows@doubleclick[1].txt
>
> I can't find them by opening the c:\windows\cookies\ folder,
> or by using Windows Scout.
> I also tried to make visible all invisible files for the map \cookies.
>
> Pest Patrol says they're there, but I can't find them.
> They're also invisible to the Cookiemonster program.
>
> Also, there is a registry entry for Alexa Adware.
>
> Alex
>
>
It's probably finding history of them in your registry. What option to
you get from Pest Patrol? I'm not familiar with the product. Maybe it
will clean entries from the registry?

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:12:39 +0100, Alex <avdeelen.REMOF@wanadoo.nl> wrote:

> Also, there is a registry entry for Alexa Adware.

Try spybot from
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?...n&page=download
and adaware from
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

Also, take a look at http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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"optikl" <optikl@invalid.net> wrote...
> Alex wrote:
>> I can't find three files that have been detected by Pest Patrol
>> (free version)
>>
>> windows@advertising[1].txt
>> windows@servedby.advertising[1].txt
>> windows@doubleclick[1].txt

> It's probably finding history of them in your registry. What option to
> you get from Pest Patrol? I'm not familiar with the product. Maybe it
> will clean entries from the registry?

They may be in IE's cache - the "temporary internet files" folder.

Alex wrote:
> I can't find three files that have been detected by Pest Patrol (free
> version)
>
> windows@advertising[1].txt
> windows@servedby.advertising[1].txt
> windows@doubleclick[1].txt
>
> I can't find them by opening the c:\windows\cookies\ folder,
> or by using Windows Scout.
> I also tried to make visible all invisible files for the map \cookies.
>
> Pest Patrol says they're there, but I can't find them.
> They're also invisible to the Cookiemonster program.
>
> Also, there is a registry entry for Alexa Adware.
>
> Alex

You may want to read this:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=21775

Open a DOS box and type the following three lines:

move "c:\windows\cookies\windows@advertising[1].txt" c:\windows\temp
move "c:\windows\cookies\windows@servedby.advertising[1].txt" c:\windows\temp
move "c:\windows\cookies\windows@doubleclick[1].txt" c:\windows\temp

Ben

"Alex" <avdeelen.REMOF@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message news:4001928b$0$29327$1b62eedf@news.euronet.nl...
> I can't find three files that have been detected by Pest Patrol (free version)
>
> windows@advertising[1].txt
> windows@servedby.advertising[1].txt
> windows@doubleclick[1].txt
>
> I can't find them by opening the c:\windows\cookies\ folder,
> or by using Windows Scout.
> I also tried to make visible all invisible files for the map \cookies.
>
> Pest Patrol says they're there, but I can't find them.
> They're also invisible to the Cookiemonster program.
>
> Also, there is a registry entry for Alexa Adware.
>
> Alex
>
>

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:12:39 +0100, "Alex" <avdeelen.REMOF@wanadoo.nl>
wrote:

>I can't find three files that have been detected by Pest Patrol (free version)
>
>windows@advertising[1].txt
>windows@servedby.advertising[1].txt
>windows@doubleclick[1].txt


Do you mean the Eval version?
as they don't od a freebie.

Probably deleted by CookiePatrol, part of the product.


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