Program Removal

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STEVE K

I am running Windows XP Home edition. About a month ago -
a "program" appeared on my computer with an shortcut
icon on the desktop. It's called "Talking Buddy" - it's
one of these "cutesy" little personal assistant type
program and seems pretty innoculous. It must have
installed from some download when I accidently
clicked "yes" on something inadvertantly. At any rate, I
have tried to "remove" it from my program list using
the "Add/Remove" feature from the control panel. It will
not allow me to remove it. When I click on the
Change/Remove button, I get a little pop-up window
called "Wise Uninstall" and a message that says, "could
not open INSTALL.log file". Why? And how do I remove
this program. I have disabled it in the start-up under
msconfig, but I want it off my system! Help! Thanks.
 
-----Original Message-----
I am running Windows XP Home edition. About a month ago -
a "program" appeared on my computer with an shortcut
icon on the desktop. It's called "Talking Buddy" - it's
one of these "cutesy" little personal assistant type
program and seems pretty innoculous. It must have
installed from some download when I accidently
clicked "yes" on something inadvertantly. At any rate, I
have tried to "remove" it from my program list using
the "Add/Remove" feature from the control panel. It will
not allow me to remove it. When I click on the
Change/Remove button, I get a little pop-up window
called "Wise Uninstall" and a message that says, "could
not open INSTALL.log file". Why? And how do I remove
this program. I have disabled it in the start-up under
msconfig, but I want it off my system! Help! Thanks.
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http://www.safer-networking.org/ Spybot
www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
http://www.lavasoft.de/ Ad-aware
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html (CWS)cool web
shedder and hijack this
www.spywareinfo.com/forums/

The Merijn site is down at the moment you can D/L CWS
from www.spywareinfo.com
 
STEVE K said:
I am running Windows XP Home edition. About a month ago -
a "program" appeared on my computer with an shortcut
icon on the desktop. It's called "Talking Buddy" - it's
one of these "cutesy" little personal assistant type
program and seems pretty innoculous. It must have
installed from some download when I accidently
clicked "yes" on something inadvertantly. At any rate, I
have tried to "remove" it from my program list using
the "Add/Remove" feature from the control panel. It will
not allow me to remove it. When I click on the
Change/Remove button, I get a little pop-up window
called "Wise Uninstall" and a message that says, "could
not open INSTALL.log file". Why? And how do I remove
this program. I have disabled it in the start-up under
msconfig, but I want it off my system! Help! Thanks.
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Sounds like some spyware. I would use Ad-Aware at
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ . It is free and should remove all of it.
Let me know if it does not and we can manually remove the registry and
instsall files.


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