Mike
Thu May 06 07:39:57 CDT 2004
OSSPROXY is Spyware
For more details see
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/M/MarketScore.asp
which includes full details on removal.
May I strongly recommend that you check your system for other unwanted
commercial malware, parasites and the like using the free AdAware
(
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and SpyBot Search & Destroy
(
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/). Other useful tools include
BHOCaptor (
http://www.xcaptor.org) that checks for unwanted Browser Help
Objects and SpywareBlaster
(
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html) which can help prevent
some parasites getting a grip on your PC.
You should also check for variants of the odious CoolWebSearch hijacker and
the best way of to do this to use merijn's CWShredder which can be downloaded
from either:
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip
or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
For more details of the CoolWebSearch hijacker see
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html.
--?
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
ralph <yorkvilleralph@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Re: Windows ME & Explorer 6.0
>
> I had problems with a website and was asked to update
> Explorer.
>
> 1. I updated Explorer
> 2. I downloaded from the Microsoft site what I thought
> was a Microsoft download that ended up being a link to
> Speed-bit. I letter uninstalled it as it was causing its
> own problems.
> 3. I downloaded a Windows ME update.
> 4. I updated Norton Utilities and looked for problems and
> my PC still hangs up during shut-down.
>
> If I do a control alt-delete it says that "OSSPROXY not
> responding"
>
> thanks,