If I ever met the man who invented spyware...

[SmileyBoy]

I'd bash his face in with the butt of an axe.

And then I'd bludgeon his head repeatedly with a canoe oar.

And then I'd shove a molten-hot iron rod up his ass.

And then I'd stomp on his torso repeatedly with golf shoes on.

And then I'd gouge his eyes out with a sharp rusty hook.

And then I'd put ping-pong balls in his eye sockets.

And then I'd tear his arms out of the sockets and beat him over the head with them.

Sorry folks, I gotta vent tonight. This spyware is driving me fucking nuts.

And YES, I have Ad-Aware SE Personal 6.0, Spybot Search and Destroy, Spy Sweeper and Norton Anti Virus Scan.

[qnr]

1. And then you'd send him next door, to face the wrath of the next victim?

Sounds like a plan.

[kokomo]

2. The spyware popups......ALL popups are getting out of hand.

I am also getting 75 pieces of spam in my yahoo mailbox daily now. I have to read all the topics as sometimes mail I want to open gets stuck in there too.

The amount of SPAM has tripled since I wrote 3 dozen letters to companies protesting Sinclair. Anyone else have such a problem?

One letter I keep getting is from Kelly Bundy wanting me to sex her!!

[aquart]

3. Can we bid on who gets him next?

You didn't include deep fat frying his testicles and making him eat them.

[LibertyorDeath]

4. Hi northwest what have you tried so far to get rid of this crap?

If it keeps coming back try this go to Start-Search-type hosts in the box this should locate your hosts file (Copy it & save to desktop)Then open the original hosts file it should look like this. If their is anything that comes after this last line

127.0.0.1 localhost

delete all info after this last line NOT THE FILE.

The File should look like this

# Copyright (c) 1998 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP stack for Windows98
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

Close the file say yes to changes prompt

[LibertyorDeath]

5. Here Good luck.

http://www.winpatrol.com/

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html careful with this one

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