Surfghost

[Virender Sangha]

Hi
I have win XP 1.67 GB w 512 MB of ram on athlon amd
processor and internet explorer version 6 but from
somewhere I downloaded the program of surfghost with
some popupk - now I can't get rid of it.It is located at
C:\Program Files\surfghost and every time i try to remove
it , I am notified that index.dat (one of the contents of
folder surfghost and has an wmp icon) is used by some
program which i should close.I have reset the location of
temporary internet files folder (through tools/internet
options)to C:\Internet Cache\Temporary Internet
Files\Temporary Internet Files which used to be in
surfghost folder earlier but still all the files/cookies
I view come in surfghost folder.Earlier this location
used to be the the internet cache .After the surfghost
takeover I also cannot view history of pages visited.When
i try to view history,I just view afolder history ie5
with location of C:\Program
Files\surfghost\temp\history.So please guide me what
steps I shall take to - 1.Remove surfghost from my system
and 2.view all the cookies/files I visited in
tempinternet files.
THanks

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Hi
I have win XP 1.67 GB w 512 MB of ram on athlon amd
processor and internet explorer version 6 but from
somewhere I downloaded the program of surfghost with
some popupk - now I can't get rid of it.It is located at
C:\Program Files\surfghost and every time i try to remove
it , I am notified that index.dat (one of the contents of
folder surfghost and has an wmp icon) is used by some
program which i should close.I have reset the location of
temporary internet files folder (through tools/internet
options)to C:\Internet Cache\Temporary Internet
Files\Temporary Internet Files which used to be in
surfghost folder earlier but still all the files/cookies
I view come in surfghost folder.Earlier this location
used to be the the internet cache .After the surfghost
takeover I also cannot view history of pages visited.When
i try to view history,I just view afolder history ie5
with location of C:\Program
Files\surfghost\temp\history.So please guide me what
steps I shall take to - 1.Remove surfghost from my system
and 2.view all the cookies/files I visited in
tempinternet files.
THanks

See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

 

[DVarnau]

This was discussed recently at SpywareInfo.com. Here's the thread:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=12379&st=15
The solution appears to have been to download DrDelete from
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7374516~root=sware~mode=flat
Use that to delete the SurfGhost Program Files folder, then use your
registry editor to find and delete any reference to SurfGhost (*after*
exporting a backup copy of the registry!)

Hope this helps,
Don

 

[siljaline]

Hi
I have win XP 1.67 GB w 512 MB of ram on athlon amd
processor and internet explorer version 6 but from
somewhere I downloaded the program of surfghost with
some popupk - now I can't get rid of it.It is located at
C:\Program Files\surfghost and every time i try to remove
it , I am notified that index.dat (one of the contents of
folder surfghost and has an wmp icon) is used by some
program which i should close.I have reset the location of
temporary internet files folder (through tools/internet
options)to C:\Internet Cache\Temporary Internet
Files\Temporary Internet Files which used to be in
surfghost folder earlier but still all the files/cookies
I view come in surfghost folder.Earlier this location
used to be the the internet cache .After the surfghost
takeover I also cannot view history of pages visited.When
i try to view history,I just view afolder history ie5
with location of C:\Program
Files\surfghost\temp\history.So please guide me what
steps I shall take to - 1.Remove surfghost from my system
and 2.view all the cookies/files I visited in
tempinternet files.
THanks

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=15560&hl=surfghost
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=15640&hl=surfghost
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=12379&hl=surfghost
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=13490&hl=surfghost
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=12017&hl=surfghost

HTH

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siljaline MS - MVP IE/OE

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