Mike
Mon Jun 28 08:06:55 CDT 2004
What you are seeing is a pop up from whatever web page you were browsing at
the time and I would strongly recommend that you do NOT click such a pop up
unless you have explicitly gone to a site with the purpose of getting it to
scan your system.
This might be a good time to download yourself a copy of the free
Ad-Aware 6.0 from Lavasoft (
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and
also SpyBot Search & Destroy (
http://www.safer-networking.org/) and use them
to check your system for other commercial parasites remembering that they are
only as good as when you last updated their reference files. I also use a
program called BHODemon (
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm 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.
Then there is CWShredder
(
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip or
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip) which is the best way
of getting rid of the many forms of the CoolWebSearch hijacker details of
which can be found at
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
and also
http://www.pestpatrol.com/pestinfo/c/cws.asp.
--?
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
carl_stevens68@hotmail.com <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I received a popup window stating that I have spyware on
> my computer. It gave a click here icon to delete it but I
> am weary that is valid. I somehow,in my mind,think that it
> could be a virus.
> Does anyone know if this popup is valid? and how do I
> delete this spyware?