Unwabted drivers, etc.

[harry]

Recently certain files were embedded in downloads
(probably games) by grandchildren. I became aware of these
via pop-up alerts. By using Search I was able to find and
uninstall one called NavExcel. Search also turned up one
Called NTCOMPAT.INF but I was unable to uninstall or
delete. A third one, NewDotNet/B did not turn up on
Search but did show up in a warning box when I accessed a
magaxine's archive. I have Norton Internet Security
installed and working fine on viruses and
other "Invaders". Any advice about this problem would be
appreciated.

 

[Phil]

You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a home
page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
Spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

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

 

[harry]

The "agent" was NewDotNet/B which disabeled my IE and OE
when I uninstalled it. I was down for about 3 days and
then learned that the fix is
www.realiatek.com/bin/winsock.exe After a friend
downloaded this fix on a floppy I ran it and instantly
solved the problem. Thanks for the assistance. harry