unwanted program/virus????

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There is a program that i cannot remove from my computer!!! It always deers my homepage to 'I-look-up" ...even though I have tried to option it out many times!!!! I believe that the the program is called "I-won"..and i see it in my programs folder..but cannot remove it. I even went to msconfig to shut sown all programs...so that i may remove it...but...i always receive the error message "acess denied"!!!What can i do...short of re-installing the operating system??? Please Hel

Joe (e-mail address removed)
 
Hi

Try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Also see the following link:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

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| There is a program that i cannot remove from my computer!!! It always
deers my homepage to 'I-look-up" ...even though I have tried to option it
out many times!!!! I believe that the the program is called "I-won"..and i
see it in my programs folder..but cannot remove it. I even went to msconfig
to shut sown all programs...so that i may remove it...but...i always receive
the error message "acess denied"!!!What can i do...short of re-installing
the operating system??? Please Help
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Joe (e-mail address removed)
 
Hi Joe,

There is a program that i cannot remove from my computer!!! It always deers my homepage to 'I-look-up" ...even though I have tried to option it out many times!!!! I believe that the the program is called "I-won"..and i see it in my programs folder..but cannot remove it. I even went to msconfig to shut sown all programs...so that i may remove it...but...i always receive the error message "acess denied"!!!What can i do...short of re-installing the operating system??? Please Help

Joe (e-mail address removed)
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More info about parasites:
http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm

Download the utility CWshredder:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip

Unzip - close *all* instances of IE & OE, hit the executable and
follow
the prompts.

You can also download Hijack This from here:
http://computercops.biz/zx/phoenix22/hijackthis.zip
http://www.computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
Go here:
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

For instructions on how to use it; you have to post the log it
produces here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
so experts tell you what is good and what is malware
HijackThis Log Tutorial
http://www.aumha.org/a/hjttutor.php
HiJack This is a program that simply searches for programs that run at
boot time, and checks for browser plug-ins. The results this program
gives you are generally just informative. Most of the programs it will
come up with are valid programs that you actually want running. You'll
have to go through the results and tell the program to delete unwanted
programs. If you can't figure out what some of the programs are, don't
just delete them, research them and/or post them so experts can let
you know what the program does. Just type the program name into google
which gets a decent answer pretty quickly.


Try downloading, installing and updating the
spyware removers from the links below. Run both of them.
Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download



If these don't correct the problem, then get yourself a copy of
BHODemon, available at
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

It does not need installing - simply unzip and run the EXE program. It
is easy to use. It will find the hijackware DLL files, and give you
the ability to disable them.

Hope this helps.
 
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