How do I remove spyware aolsoftware.exe?

[Guest]

Every fifth or sixth time I reboot, the program aolsoftware.exe runs for up
to an hour and uses a great deal of CPU capacity. I'm told by AOL that this
is not their software but is spyware. They say it cannot be removed by normal
means and that, to remove it, I need to clean the registry. How do I do this?

 

[Silvabod]

Don't know who in AOL told you it's NOT an AOL prog - a simple Google searh
says it is!!
see this link -

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/aolsoftware

same Google search (aolsoftware.exe) also tells you how to get rid of it.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Every fifth or sixth time I reboot, the program aolsoftware.exe runs for up
to an hour and uses a great deal of CPU capacity. I'm told by AOL that this
is not their software but is spyware. They say it cannot be removed by normal
means and that, to remove it, I need to clean the registry. How do I do this?

You got terrible advice from AOL. It *is* AOL software. See, for
example,
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/aolsoftware/

By the way, I found this out very quickly by doing a Google search on
aolsoftware.exe. Google is an excellent tool for getting information
like this.