survey application?

[Guest]

Ok, hopefully this is the right place to ask this, but whenever i boot my computer up, it comes up fine, when it does i can click on everything, but nothing comes up, whenever i press ctrl+alt+delete it takes about 1 minute for the windows task manager to come up, when it does one application is running and it is called Survey, after i select Survey and End Task everything works fine again, but this is a real inconvienience, it isnt spyware or anything, i ran Ad-Aware and it didnt catch anything, any ideas on what this is and how to get rid of it?

 

[C4jun]

Try this...

Click start then run and type msconfig.
Select the startup tab and uncheck the problem application (survey) then
reboot.

Also...try running Ad-aware in safemode. Some spyware programs will restart
themselves even if you "tell them not to" in the msconfig utility and
Ad-aware may not detect these programs. Safemode runs a minimal amount of
applications.

Hope that helps.

-C4jun

Ok, hopefully this is the right place to ask this, but whenever i boot my

computer up, it comes up fine, when it does i can click on everything, but
nothing comes up, whenever i press ctrl+alt+delete it takes about 1 minute
for the windows task manager to come up, when it does one application is
running and it is called Survey, after i select Survey and End Task
everything works fine again, but this is a real inconvienience, it isnt
spyware or anything, i ran Ad-Aware and it didnt catch anything, any ideas
on what this is and how to get rid of it?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

The next time you open Task Manager and Survey is listed under
Applications, right click it and click: Go to Process.

This will highlight the Survey process under the Processes tab.

It would be helpful to know what Process is listed.

 

[Hilary Karp]

If it's adware it often times takes a combination of programs to ferret
out all of it. Run these programs to check for spyware/malware. After
installing, update them, then boot into safe mode and run them. You
should update and run them weekly.

Cwshredder
http://209.133.47.200/~merijn/files/CWShredder.exe

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner
http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10247783.html

After your system is clean use these programs to help keep it clean:

Spywareblaster
www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html

Spywareguard
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html

IE-SPYAD
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm