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Old 10-18-2002, 05:35 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Food gee, thank you for the spyware "browserwise"

hey,

for some reason this hellspawn garbage got installed on my PC. its a toolbar that ends up in Internet exploder, changes your start page to browserwise.com, and has a directory called "xupiter" under Program Files which conveniently doesnt have a remove file in its directory nor can it be removed. (although i didnt try in safe mode and didnt just want to delete a directory with executables)

but.........after scouring around some boards i DID find a program which will work with removing it since adaware didnt even detect this. its a spybot app and can be found
here

i had to find the english version but its there. the creator asks for a 5 dollar donation although the download is free. its definitely not as user friendly as adaware but it is very effective.

i didnt see anything about this at techimo after doing some searching so i figured id let whoever know. take care.

SD

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