12-30-2004, 01:16 PM | #11 |
Fzoul Chembryl
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Post some more, dual to a Priest of Choc and Turn Spyware. If it doesn't work, try burning your HD.
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12-30-2004, 02:47 PM | #12 |
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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] [ 12-30-2004, 02:49 PM: Message edited by: Lady Sedai ] |
12-30-2004, 04:16 PM | #13 |
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eh reformat or whatever its called if nothing else works
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12-30-2004, 04:51 PM | #14 |
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lol Blind prophet, I already said that...as a JOKE [img]tongue.gif[/img] but yeah, Lady Sedai's suggestion seems the best: open a dos prompt and delete from there: it should be under C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop
just type del
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12-30-2004, 06:11 PM | #15 |
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I don't think that's icons. If you have Active Desktop enabled, disable it. It should be in your desktop context menu somewhere.
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12-30-2004, 11:42 PM | #16 |
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You may also be able to use the keyboard solutions to get rid of them.... instead of clicking on them (which is probably trapped), click on something else on your desktop, arrow over to the suspected item, and hit the Windows Menu key (down there by the right shift key) to bring up the right click menu. You should be able to delete from there (or simply hit shift-delete when you've cursored onto it).
The real issue, though, is that you've got malware... Spybot, Adaware, and HiJack This are going to be three real good buddies for you. I'd probably do a virus scan at Trend Micro afterwards as well, just to cover all the bases.
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12-31-2004, 11:17 AM | #17 |
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I have the same problem. See my Annoying problem - can't delete some icons thread.
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12-31-2004, 12:22 PM | #18 | |
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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 ]
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12-31-2004, 12:35 PM | #19 |
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You should get Ad-Aware Professional i purchased it, it cost only 36$ then it have a build in program called Ad-Watch who monitoring EVERYTHING that trie to install on your pc and also get rid of those "tracking cookies" who send you those annoying pop up windows all the time when you are on the net and so on, it is wery handy and it is recomanded by PcWorld Magazine.
Here is a pic how it looks like and i am wery pleased with this fine program! [img]smile.gif[/img] Anyway you can read more about it here! http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adawareprofessional/ |
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