Icons Out Of Control

[Nazareth]

take a look at this screenie the icons i have highlighted i can not get rid of, cannot right click, delete, move or anything else apart from double click em which loads up a site called "search the web" ive tryed everything to solve this problem and it led me to get help from here.

can anybody help this is really anoying...

 

[Nazareth]

bump

 

[anto135]

I think its spyware witch if it is you should download adaware and scan your computer but just wait untill urban tells you what to do he would probably know.

 

[Rick-e]

Spyware tbh.

 

[urbanfox]

First off... get firefox.

Second

http://www.download.com/Ad-aware/3000-8022-10214379.html?tag=lst-0-2
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10122137.html?part=104443&subj=dlpage&tag=button
http://www.download.com/CWShredder/3000-8022-10301586.html?tag=lst-0-1

 

[Xypher]

lmao Ricky..

Everybody look at ricky's screenshot .. the upper right and lower right corner.. lolz . comical :P

 

[urbanfox]

lmao Ricky..

Everybody look at ricky's screenshot .. the upper right and lower right corner.. lolz . comical :P

Spam is never tolerated in this part of the forum, never, but since I am such a nice guy, I'll give you a verbal warning, do it again and your warned, don't even bother replying to this as that will be classed as spam too, got a question/problem pm me.

 

[lozmuir]

lmao ricky.

yeh things like casino spyware is a ******* but the worst things are when it changes your home and downloads icons like that, sometimes adaware dosnt pick em up.

 

[DeathWish]

the same thing happened to my brother, i used adware and sybot but it didnt get rid of it, sum reason he has 2 IEXPLORER.exe's open instead of none, i search for the Iexplorer.exes and i only found the normal 1, if you endtask 1 a .tmp or a .exe file appears and then the iexplorer.exe comes back again, i deleted a file from the TEMP folder, but im not sure if it fixed it cuz i didnt check :P

 

[SkyDragon]

i just got a ace new program off my mums b/f if you wont it add me to msn i got key aswell its quick and gets rid of spyware/worms/trojans. spyware nuker 2004 its good just add me to msn and ill send u the small installer. (54 kb) installer [email protected]

 

[Ragnar]

i think spybot should solve the problem it has gotten rid of all spyware ive had no probs and yes wudnt hurt to run adaware also

Spybot http://spybot.safer-networking.de/en/mirrors/index.html
Adaware http://www.net-security.org/software_d.php?id=135

 

[SkyDragon]

lol soz oni just readed post properly its cos you have d/led a toolbar or maybe a new msn but i can remember having these just go to controlpanel > add or remove and find them there thats what i did

 

[Detritus]

Yeah thats definately a toolbar, like those things that when u want to download new smileys for msn and conn you into having a tool bar and loads of other ****.

 

[urbanfox]

Which is once again kiddies why everyone should use firefox.

 

[Dataforce]

Internet Explorer sucks. You get too much spyware from it due to its lack of security.

 

[Nazareth]

i use Netscape which is a mozilla program, supports it anyhow, its exackly the same as firefox but i think its better tbh.

i dont use internet explorer aint used that for about 1 an half years now

i used ad-aware and it scans... finds some... then the icons disapear while its scanning then i remove all the crap, then i restart my comp and there bck!!

tryed to un-install all my shizzle internet explorer tool bars in add and remove programs but that aint had no effect.

any more solutions?

EDIT: Never mind guys found the solution, it was MsgPlus, i uninstalled it and they gone now.

thanks for your help, if any1 else gets this prob least they know what to do

 

[urbanfox]

It's built on mozilla I believe, but I still call firefox my home.

When you use adaware make sure you do a full scan, it will tell you blah blah blah let us start up after the next reboot, put yes, reboot, when you login it will emmediately load up and run another full scan and you should be ok.

Did you run the other programs I suggested?

 

[Nazareth]

EDIT: Never mind guys found the solution, it was MsgPlus, i uninstalled it and they gone now.

thanks for your help, if any1 else gets this prob least they know what to do

ta for all your help fox, btw i got that RAM upgrade and now ive got 768RAM and everythings runing smooth as a cream cake!

 

[urbanfox]

ta for all your help fox, btw i got that RAM upgrade and now ive got 768RAM and everythings runing smooth as a cream cake!

N1 more ram always helps a lot more when your under 1GB

 

[Ragnar]

if u install msn plus im quite sure tht the installer has an option like

Install msn plus WITH THE SPONSOR PROGRAM
Install msn plus WITHOUT THE SPONSOR PROGRAM

select without sponsor prog and it shudnt install ne spyware