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Damn adware. I am so pissed off. Its this god damn MySearchNow website. When I came back from vacation, I had about 15 new items on my desktop that I cant remove....how can I get rid of them? They are all like Travel and Make Money and Gambling icons...help me.
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Do you have administrative rights to your computer? perhaps someone with admin rights installed spyware and you do not have the permissions to remove them?
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I have no idea what that means....but I bought the computer and I think that gives me the right to hate anybody who installes adware on it.
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what adam is saying is that if your screename is the master one

anyway, download ad-aware and it will greatly help
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I have ad-aware and all its picking up is tracking bugs. I cant find any way to get the icons off of my desktop.
Blame it on the yellow bananas..they just sit there..all..yellow-like!!



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Right Click on one of them, go to properties. go to the general tab, and copy what's in Location:



Paste it here
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If I right click them nothing happens. Its like a icon that refuses to be disposed.
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stupid quesiton, but have you restarted your computer in a while? try restarting
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I have recently and it did not help, although as of now, the icons have seemed to disappear. Hopefully they will remain gone. As for another question, now my home page keeps changing intself to the same stupid website the icons were for.
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Originally posted by http://66.220.17.157/help.html

How do I uninstall one of your software products?



There are several methods available to you should you wish to uninstall any of our software products you had previously chosen to install:



- You can go to your Start Menu--Control Panel, then choose the 'Add / Remove Programs' option. Depending on which version of the software you have installed locate 'Lop.com' or 'LOP SEARCH' or 'Window Searching' or ?'Window Active' or "Browser Enhancer" or "Ultimate Browser Enhancer" or "Search Plugin" from the menu to run the uninstaller.



- Depending on your version You may also be able to locate a globe type icon in the bottom right hand corner of your screen (near the clock), right click on it then click Menu. From the main menu you will see a help button on the top right hand corner. Click the help button then choose 'uninstall'.



- Additionally a separate universal uninstall program may be downloaded here



- If you are still having problems please email support@lop.com for assistance.
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Re: Adware....

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McAfee blows... Norton blows.... Panda blows... They all blow.... The only good virus scanner Ive ever had is a free one called AVG (can you believe it)? A free virus scanner is better at catching stupid shit that McAfee and Norton miss... How pathetic is that? haha. Get AVG.
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Originally posted by DunOwuTiwaNt@Jan 3 2005, 03:59 AM

get mcafee virus scan. it works.

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That program made our computer screw up all the time and made it run really super slow.



We now have zonealarm which I am very pleased with. I think it works really good.
You called yesterday to basically say

That you care for me but that you're just not in love

Immediately I pretended to be feeling similarly

And led you to believe I was O.K.

To just walk away from the one thing

That's unyielding and sacred to me

Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it

And I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without you

But in reality I'm slowly losing my my mind

Underneath the guise of a smile gradually I'm dying inside

Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly

'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering

So I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night

And turn down all the lights and then break down and cry

So what do you do when somebody you're devoted to

Suddenly just stops loving you and it seems they haven't got a clue

Of the pain that rejection is putting you through

Do you cling to your pride and sing "I will survive"

Do you lash out and say "How dare you leave this way"

Do you hold on in vain as they just slip away
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Zone alarm is a firewall, not a virus scanner. Viruses still pass through firewalls. You are not protected then Arielle



AVG, McAfee, Norton, Fprot, PC Cillin



They all have their good points, and bad.



They all have DIFFERENT virus definitions, and while some may pick up viruses that the big ones (norton and mcafee) don't, they are not 'the ultimate' and do miss some that the larger ones DO pick up (trust me, AVG is ok, not too great, but you get what you pay for.... i installed Norton after a long 5 month try of AVG and it picked up 92 viruses (all dorment because I know what goes on my system) that AVG did not pick up when i scanned the entire computer including inside compressed files.
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You called yesterday to basically say

That you care for me but that you're just not in love

Immediately I pretended to be feeling similarly

And led you to believe I was O.K.

To just walk away from the one thing

That's unyielding and sacred to me

Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it

And I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without you

But in reality I'm slowly losing my my mind

Underneath the guise of a smile gradually I'm dying inside

Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly

'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering

So I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night

And turn down all the lights and then break down and cry

So what do you do when somebody you're devoted to

Suddenly just stops loving you and it seems they haven't got a clue

Of the pain that rejection is putting you through

Do you cling to your pride and sing "I will survive"

Do you lash out and say "How dare you leave this way"

Do you hold on in vain as they just slip away
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