Doesn't remove some adware

[W.D. Parker]

When I scan, it finds these things and says that it removes it, but each
time I scan it finds them again. So it either removed them and they come
right back, or it doesn't remove it at all. I've even tried CounterSpy and
it won't fix it. Any ideas? Here are the files that keep coming back:

VX2.ABetterInternet.Respondmiter

Windows SyncroAd

Windows AdTools

Windows TaskAd

Cydoor

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[Bill Sanderson]

Check out Ron Kinners offer in the announcements group.

Before you take him up on his offer, here are some things that may be worth
trying:

1) do a Tools, suspected sypware report, and tell Microsoft what the product
is failing to clean on your machine.
2) Restart in Safe mode, by pressing F8 before the main Windows screen comes
up, and do a deep scan in that mode--Repeat the scan until one comes through
clean.

This succeeds in cleaning a number of issues that come back the way yours
have, but I can't make guarantees. If there are multiple users on the
machine, I'm unclear on the answer as to whether such scans need to be made
under each user name--I think they may need to be--i.e. restart in safe
mode, start as user b, scan, etc, etc.

 

[Pondering]

I think the whole thing is junk. I've had mine for over
a week and have run during that time 12 tests which
always say that there is Zero spyware. Yet when I go
immediately afterwards with the Ad-aware spyware remover
it has between 8-20 critical data showing up. It really
just doesn't work well. I'm going to remove it from my
computer.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

This build of Microsoft Antispyware doesn't remove cookies.

Ad-aware considers these cookies as critical objects.

I'm sorry they didn't reveal that in big letters up front, but, compared to
the executables that Microsoft Antispyware removes better than any of the
others, cookies are a minor issue, in my opinion.