michael hill
December 14th 03, 02:53 PM
I have the same problem --
some company called ramgo.com has imposed itself on me as
a search engine rather that MSN and others - this
ramgo.com is based in the UK and I'm in Canada!!!!
Let me know what you find out as I would like to ditch
them....don't know how how as I am very new to all of
this.
Yours
Michael
>-----Original Message-----
>I have only just learnt the word spyware reading some of
>the messages but it sounds as though that might be the
>problem.
>My computer was invaded by something, it put a shortcut
>on the desktop which showed pornographic pictures on a
>popup. There were several programs or files I found
which
>initially I couldn't delete as it said I didn't have
>access. I managed to delete these after changing
>from "read only". The programme change/delete said there
>was an error and couldn't delete it. Also my homepage
was
>changed to something like 777.com which was a list of
>sites including gambling and porn and another time
>internet optimizer.
>I have zonealarm and norton antivirus. Zonealarm kept
>asking if hotvideo could acces the internet. Initially
>zonealarm said it hadn't accessed the internet before
>despite saying no to it it later said it had accessed
the
>internet.
>Also all the files/programmes appeared on 25/8/03 when I
>checked but system restore has no restore points before
>26/8/03 - usually it has loads.
>So I have deleted about 8 files or programmes with the
>words hotvideo,optimize or tinybar in them.
>I am worried there is still something I don't know about.
>Also how did I get it? How can I prevent getting
another.
>I am not aware of having clicked on any dodgy pages
>whilst surfing but I spose it is possible. has anyone
had
>anything similar. Is there anything I should do? I read
a
>message about spyware removal, is this a particular
>programme. Many many thanks for any help. It all sort of
>makes you feel vulnerable with some horrible thing
>stealthily creaping into your computer!
>.
>
some company called ramgo.com has imposed itself on me as
a search engine rather that MSN and others - this
ramgo.com is based in the UK and I'm in Canada!!!!
Let me know what you find out as I would like to ditch
them....don't know how how as I am very new to all of
this.
Yours
Michael
>-----Original Message-----
>I have only just learnt the word spyware reading some of
>the messages but it sounds as though that might be the
>problem.
>My computer was invaded by something, it put a shortcut
>on the desktop which showed pornographic pictures on a
>popup. There were several programs or files I found
which
>initially I couldn't delete as it said I didn't have
>access. I managed to delete these after changing
>from "read only". The programme change/delete said there
>was an error and couldn't delete it. Also my homepage
was
>changed to something like 777.com which was a list of
>sites including gambling and porn and another time
>internet optimizer.
>I have zonealarm and norton antivirus. Zonealarm kept
>asking if hotvideo could acces the internet. Initially
>zonealarm said it hadn't accessed the internet before
>despite saying no to it it later said it had accessed
the
>internet.
>Also all the files/programmes appeared on 25/8/03 when I
>checked but system restore has no restore points before
>26/8/03 - usually it has loads.
>So I have deleted about 8 files or programmes with the
>words hotvideo,optimize or tinybar in them.
>I am worried there is still something I don't know about.
>Also how did I get it? How can I prevent getting
another.
>I am not aware of having clicked on any dodgy pages
>whilst surfing but I spose it is possible. has anyone
had
>anything similar. Is there anything I should do? I read
a
>message about spyware removal, is this a particular
>programme. Many many thanks for any help. It all sort of
>makes you feel vulnerable with some horrible thing
>stealthily creaping into your computer!
>.
>