Help - WinFavorites, BargainBuddy, Flingstone

[No Sell]

I recently picked up an Adware problem that I can't get rid of.

When I boot up my computer, I get a couple of load-up windows for
WinFavorties, indicated that they had been installed. Then I get another
window which has a link to Flingstone.com in one of the dialog boxes, and
something about time/date/c drive serial number.

I have a few different - and updated - programs such as Ad-aware 6.0, Spybot
Search & Destroy and Webroot's SpySweeper. I use them, and successfully
find the troublesome files and registry entries, and supposedly quarantine,
then delete them.

However, when I reboot my computer, the whole thing starts over again, as if
I never deleted the adware in the first place.

How can this be? Is there another problem spot in my computer? Something
which re-installs these files each time, and I just delete the files, and
not the thing that's making them?

Thanks for any help, I'm stuck.

 

[No Sell]

I forgot to mention, one of the things that get regenerated is Bargain
Buddy. It appears as a directory in c:/program files

 

[Don I]

Is there any software that you HAVE installed recently?

 

[Robert Tyler]

I recently picked up an Adware problem that I can't get rid of.

When I boot up my computer, I get a couple of load-up windows for
WinFavorties, indicated that they had been installed. Then I get another
window which has a link to Flingstone.com in one of the dialog boxes, and
something about time/date/c drive serial number.

I have a few different - and updated - programs such as Ad-aware 6.0, Spybot
Search & Destroy and Webroot's SpySweeper. I use them, and successfully
find the troublesome files and registry entries, and supposedly quarantine,
then delete them.

However, when I reboot my computer, the whole thing starts over again, as if
I never deleted the adware in the first place.

How can this be? Is there another problem spot in my computer? Something
which re-installs these files each time, and I just delete the files, and
not the thing that's making them?

Thanks for any help, I'm stuck.

After updating the above programs to the latest reference files, boot
to safe-mode and run your scans there. These things can be very
persistent.



Bob Tyler...
Tyler Systems, LLC

 

[Plato]

I recently picked up an Adware problem that I can't get rid of.

Disable system restore before you use removers.