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Old 06-02-2003, 02:57 PM   #1 (permalink)
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My MORON friend came over and decided to install this thing for a P2P file sharing application I use for gathering music called "Kazaa Lite" (most of you should be familiar with it). Well, it supposedly speeds up downloads (which it actually did, A LOT ) but it's not worth what it contained. I was suspicious about it and ran Ad-aware and BOOM--spyware city. The whole process itself was a spyware program and whenever I opened any program including IE and musicmatch on my computer with internet connectivity, about 3 popups would come up. It was insane. I uninstalled it and cleaned out 1 process, 14 registry keys, and 2 registry values this EVIL program had installed on my computer. After I had run Norton and Ad-aware several times and made sure it was GONE, I felt safe, but now every once in a while Norton pops up and says "A file 'n-case' was removed without your permission". Great. Am I dealing with some undetectable virus? I've scanned both hard drives with AAW and Norton. I also have a network connected, so could this have possibly spread to other rooms in my house?

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Old 06-02-2003, 03:13 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Its not a virus. Have you updated your dat files in both norton and in Ad Aware? They may be using a new spyware not detectable in the current Ad Aware. Are you using version 5 or the new version 6?
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Old 06-02-2003, 03:39 PM   #3 (permalink)
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you can also try spybot
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-80618...-20848563.html
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Old 06-02-2003, 03:43 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Definately try Spybot, more thorough than Adaware IMO.
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Old 06-02-2003, 03:46 PM   #5 (permalink)
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i have seen instances where stuff that spybot doesnt pick up adaware does and vice versa. to be totally spyware free you need to run both of them. spybot should pick up the remaining crap on there .
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Kazaa Lite contains NO adware/spyware, it is stripped of them, unlike the regular Kazaa. These are probably from before Kazaa or if you downloaded them from somewhere.
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No, I think it's a virus because norton keeps popping up saying a file named "n-CASE" was removed without my permission. What is n-CASE? I looked it up and one site said it was spyware, so I'm thinking that norton was confused when ad-aware removed it.
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Old 06-03-2003, 02:05 PM   #8 (permalink)
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HA! I zapped it! n-CASE was removed successfully by spybot!
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Old 06-03-2003, 06:23 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Very fortunate for you, Grasshopper! You have learned your lesson.

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