Hi, i keep having to do a system scan with Hijack this, to remove a toolbar from ie and items which appear in my favorites . if i could post or pm somebody with good pc knowledge the results of the system scan with a view to telling me what i can safely delete

As after i have deleted the lines which remove the toolbar etc and re boot ,after 30mins or so on the net i get the toolbar and icons back again ....think there is something still needing deleted to stop them re appearing

P.S Just before the icons re appear i get a blank pop up !!!! then comes that pesky tool bar.... Long story but i am to keep it short

have you tried the windows antispy program?

where di i get it microsoft site ??

goto http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

and download spybot search and destroy its what I use and has regular updates to fight spyware.

where di i get it microsoft site ??

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/default.mspx

I'd recommend SpyBot in this case, as suggested above. When the scan finishes and displays the items found, there is a sliding bar on the right of the screen which you can bring out. This will display extra info about what it's found. For example, on my main PC at home, there's an entry relating to my Creative soundcard. It tells me that, so I know not to delete it.

Ad-Aware's also recommended, and also free. You can add entries to the ignore list with that, when you know any entries to be genuine.

HTH

Steve

AdAware, Spybot S&D and Hijack this.

It sounds like you have one of the real b*strd ones

What OS are you using? If it is XP, look in your services (start->run, type 'services.msc' minus the quotes).

I think on two machines I recently fixed it was Zeosoft or something like that.

If you see a service like that listed, post that back here & I'll post ya some instructions to kill it

AdAware, Spybot S&D and Hijack this. Got them still no joy

Using xp prof looked in the services...noy joy with that zeosoft command

Got the microsoft spyware download it seems to zap it until i reboot and go on the web again then bang it appears again !!! getting ****ed off now

Use hijackthis to create an output file, send it to me (ian_cooke( at ) yahoo.com)

I'll give it a going over.

(and yes, for ease of use, ad-aware, spybot, and MS antispy are quite good, but you do get some that elude them, often by preventing them from working fully!)

E-mail sent many thanks for help