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Originally posted by Lady Sedai:
Try right-click, go to Properties, look at the attributes.
If anything is checked as "read only" or "hidden", uncheck them and try to delete them again.
Barring that, go into DOS, find the individual files and delete them there.
So sayeth the computer guru (my hubby)  .
Also, he mentioned (and I must agree) that the latest version of Norton AV would keep this from happening. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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I think he posted that he can't right click them without going to the sites they represent!
A friend of mine, who has Norton as well as a good firewall, had a lot of these things on her machine (kids play online games with it).
My husband and I got rid of most of them while visiting at Christmas time but it took several hours and Coolsearch is still there despite our running both Adaware and Spybot. Norton didn't even recognize them. Neither Adaware nor Spbybot could get rid of that one or one other annoying program that's still there. We even saw them running in SAFEMODE! So if anyone does find a solution to wiping those things out, let me know, my friend will be grateful!
[ 12-31-2004, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]