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dragonpaulz
February 14th, 2004, 01:22 PM
Every so often I get a message from wondows messanger saying some stuff about spyware and porn. They point me to a website called spw9.com
I ran ad-aware, spybot S&D, and spysweeper and I still get the poups.
Please help!!!
Can you identify the spyware/adware and if so can you tell me how to reomove it?

Thanks,
paul

rebirth
February 14th, 2004, 01:58 PM
it's a fake site, that probably installs ad/spy ware itself...there are many places that refer to the messenger fake messages...google the exact message and you'll see some fixes for it. OK? ok...

CompuGeek
February 14th, 2004, 01:59 PM
Every so often I get a message from wondows messanger saying some stuff about spyware and porn. They point me to a website called spw9.com
I ran ad-aware, spybot S&D, and spysweeper and I still get the poups.
Please help!!!
Can you identify the spyware/adware and if so can you tell me how to reomove it?

Thanks,
paul

Start > Run > services.msc

Change startup type of Messenger service to Disabled.

Problem solved.

Omyn
February 14th, 2004, 02:40 PM
Darn he beat me to it.

ZP really needs a section dedicated to removing all of that stuff :]

flantanella
February 19th, 2004, 05:12 PM
Ad aware 6 and no adware got rid of spyware that spybot missed

hope that helps