Thread: Spy- and Adware
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Old 03-30-2004, 12:57 AM   #1
Arledrian
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Join Date: July 12, 2001
Location: South Carolina
Age: 41
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My computer is pretty much constantly and heavily bogged down with spy- and adware. I have desktop icons, installed programs, new homepages, pop-ups, the lot. Spybot SD and Adaware don't help much at all - I can run them both several times as well as clear out all my cookies, caches, and internet files. This does help a little, but the bulk of it stays on my computer, and every time I think I've deleted it all, it's back again when I reboot.

My question is, where do I go from here? I can't seem to shift this rubbish by any means. If there is any program out there that will properly get rid of all this crap as well as block pop-ups (without disallowing me to open new browser windows) I'd be prepared to pay whatever's necessary. I've also considered just buying a new laptop hard drive so that I can start afresh, but this is costly.

Any ideas, anyone? I'm loathe to fork out $350 for a new hard drive, but I don't want to live with all this gunk on my notebook either. Thanks for any suggestions [img]smile.gif[/img]
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