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i HATE ADWARE and SPYWARE please help me!!!

Old Jun 23, 2004 | 09:13 PM
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Default i HATE ADWARE and SPYWARE please help me!!!

I havent been able to get into the Car Talk part of the site for a few months now because my computer has some kind of spyware or something called Targetwords, i think its part of the 180 search assistant.. but anyway every time i some to the site it loads with the word CAR underlined as a link to some search engine to find cars, but it disables the like to the part of the site.. so i cant get into the car talk area of the website. has anyone else experienced this and do they know how to get rid of that software or get around it? i have adaware and spybot so i dont really wanna get those, but this is pissing me off. any suggestios are very appreciated, thank u fellow S2kers...
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Old Jun 23, 2004 | 09:34 PM
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Read this thread:

http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.p...threadid=215902
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Old Jun 23, 2004 | 09:38 PM
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Run a program called Adaware. It'll scan your hard drive and remove any of those things.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 07:21 AM
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For a free Ad-Aware download, go to:

http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download/



For a free Spybot download, go to:

http://www.safer-networking.org/
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 09:31 AM
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1. Stop looking at porn

2. get spybot and spyware blaster to clean out that junk

3. use tissues
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 09:51 AM
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Keep looking at porn....just d/l ToolBarCop first.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 09:52 AM
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Mozilla Firefox 0.9

http://www.mozilla.org. IE is the devil
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 10:15 AM
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Also...I used a web browser called "Opera" in the past. I sort of liked it better than IE. You may want to try that as well.
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Old Jun 28, 2004 | 08:56 PM
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Pest Patrol has worked the best for me
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Old Jun 28, 2004 | 09:34 PM
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Webroot's Spysweeper works for me
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