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gauchebag
 Post subject: This is the worst spyware crap I've ever seen.
PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:19 am 
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http://looking-for.cc/smartfinder/uninstall/ShoppingWizard.html

This is ridiculous. I get some "Shopping Wizard" installed on my computer. I go to uninstall this spyware crap and end up at that shady website, where it says you have to download another .exe file to uninstall this stuff.

One of the first questions on their FAQ addresses the question of whether their software gets on your computer automatically or not, and they of course claim that it could not. So then how did it just show up randomly, and why do you get asked that so much?

I don't even want to download the .exe file for fear that it will further corrupt things, but then I'll never be able to uninstall what is there now. Assholes.

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Report it to Norton or Ad-Aware? Maybe that'll help. I find that a lot of spyware goes to my Temporary Internet Files folder which I routinely empty and delete.



Hope you can clean it out without downloading their shady .exe program.

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south pacific Wrote:
Hope you can clean it out without downloading their shady .exe program.


i don't know shit about computers to do that...for now i'm just going to whine about it to my housemates and stuff.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:28 am 
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Do you constantly keep your Windows updated with the latest security patches? Automatic Updates is your friend.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:42 am 
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Download Webroot SpySweeper (i think you can get a trial version)
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Do yourself a favour and go here and learn how to update your host file to block 99% of the ads and spyware that are out there.

I can't even connect to the site you linked to because my hosts file has it in its list.

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Borg166 Wrote:
Do you constantly keep your Windows updated with the latest security patches? Automatic Updates is your friend.


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Hm... maybe download less porn?
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Hm... maybe download less porn?


bad advice
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splates Wrote:
HaqDiesel Wrote:
Hm... maybe download less porn?


bad advice

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Eddie Basden Wrote:
splates Wrote:
HaqDiesel Wrote:
Hm... maybe download less porn?


bad advice


I third.
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Evil Dr. K
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If you want porn you should be a man about it and go into a sex shop and buy it over the counter in DVD form rather than downloading furtively in your room and fucking up your PC in the process.

As far as I'm concerned unless you can look an unshaven man in a string vest straight in the eye and say "I'll take that Samurai Bukkake Gang Bang one, no, two over, yeah that's it, thanks" then you don't deserve porn and you should just go off and play with your little boy willies while trying to imagine a vagina in your minds eye.

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Dusty Chalk
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Don't use IE to download porn. Use Firefox or Opera.
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...while trying to imagine a vagina in your minds eye.
*fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap*

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