James,

Go to http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ and download the free version of Ad-aware, install it, and run it.

I get rid of everything I want with Ad-aware but others also report good thing SpyBot.

Also, make sure your Windows and anti-virus are up to date.

Roger Vicker, CCP

On 5/15/2004 11:10 AM, James R. Newman, CDP wrote:

I'm running a Dell (don't buy one) 1.4 ghz with 256 meg ram running Windows XP Pro.

A couple of days ago my 4 year old son saw an aquarium program running in an office superstore. Rather than buy the program I downloaded 3 from Cnet and installed them. I quickly noticed they'd loaded lots of other stuff like pop-ups. 1 of them had an uninstall. I deleted the folders the programs were loaded into and ran Norton Windows Doctor to get rid of anything left behind. When I run MSCONFIG I notice I've still got stuff loading that wasn't there before such as:

eeuneqv
vbabsxs
inetmgr
QuikSearch.exe
li01f948.dll
iel2cde.dll


I think these were left behind by the freebies but how do I know for sure? I know I can find the files and delete them but won't Windows still try and load at startup? How do I get this stuff to not load (get it out of MSCONFIG)?



-- *** Vicker Programming and Service *** Have bits will byte *** www.vicker.com *** I think he's one taco short of a combination platter



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