Holy Sh*t!

[Fuzzy_N4V3L]

I just did a scan with Ad-Aware, and it said that together, Bonzi-Buddy and Gator had 211 things on my computer. Freaky, huh?

[roger d]

This is probably the d/l problem from your other thread. Take some time and do a little housekeeping. Run adaware several times(it often takes several passes to get the evil BB). Check your program files and just see if there is evil lurking. Run a through scan disk. Refrag. While you are at it clean up your mp3 file and delete all those half downloaded songs and ones so pitted that you cannot stand to listen to.
Finally try to determine which program the evil gator and BB came from. If they hitched a ride with a P2P program check the forum thread for that program and see what is up. Keep us posted we will get you back together. We have all been there (well maybe not evil=212, good guys=0). Your lucky that you have not crashed but your not out of the woods yet.

[Foreverboard]

guess you should have used ad-aware sooner

[jabba|xtra]

Make sure you use msconfig to disable the 2 programs that start up that are part of gator. If those are not disabled, it will keep on putting stuff back on your comp.

[tackdaddy]

if you edit the registry,i use reg edit.

[SnakeAnarchy]

yeah the run:msconfig works

i have disabled spyware that its not yet detected by adaware with it, it was called something about Doctor Watson

[Rickio]

Here are some tools to make working with your computer easier.

You should use a process Viewer, it is better than using the 3 finger salute (windows taskmanager) it shows all running processes more than taskmanager shows. Once your familiar you will recognise when something is amiss and you can kill that process, thereby enabling you to get rid of it.

Process Viewer / all windows versions
PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows. For each process it displays memory, threads and module usage. For each DLL it shows full path and version information. PrcView comes with a command line version that allows you to write scripts to check if a process is running, kill it, etc.
http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm

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This utility make working with registry very easy for you. It simply shows startup applications and allows you to delete the entry if you don't want it to startup.

Startup Editor / all windows versions
http://codestuff.cjb.net/
manage your startup programs

Starter is yet another startup manager, that allows you to view and manage all the programs that are starting automatically whenever Windows boots. It lists all the hidden registry entries, as well as the common Startup Folder items as well. You can choose to safely disable selected entries, edit them or delete them altogether (if you know what you're doing). Expert users can even add their own entries. Very nice interface, easy to use, no documentation though (but hardly needed).

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Here is a gem of a program, let's you clean your registry of old obolete entries, should be done regularly if you install and uninstall a lot of apps.
It is also nice as it shows you the new applications you just installed. Let's say you installed something, did not like it. Uninstalled it and now you can go check the registry to make sure it cleaned up after itself, if not, you can delete the now obsolete entry it made. Very cool I think, as it is faster than loading reg edit and scrolling the tree...

:-)

RegCleaner
http://www.jv16.org/
Introduction
RegCleaner is an easy to use program. With RegCleaner you can easily get rid of those old and obsolete registry entries created by software that you have destroyed ages ago. And by easily, I mean easily. You don´t have to be any expert to use this program.

Key Features
Remove file types
Remove entries of old software
Uninstall and remove Software from the Add/Remove list
Remove unused DLL files
Remove unused Shared DLLs (Automatically detected)
Automatic backup feature

Hope you find this helpful