Spies on my computer?

My cursor has the little hour glass thingy that keeps
popping up next to it. I called a computer store and
they said that I may have a program running in the
background. I downloaded(but didn't pay for yet) Spy
hunter and it detected 3 files. 2 under HKEY_CLASSES_
that it said were "severe" and another one from
centrport.com which it listed as "Moderate" I tried to
delete them but it prompted me to buy the software. Are
any of these things related. Do I have people spying on
me or what?

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

> wrote in message

> My cursor has the little hour glass thingy that keeps
> popping up next to it. I called a computer store and
> they said that I may have a program running in the
> background. I downloaded(but didn't pay for yet) Spy
> hunter and it detected 3 files. 2 under HKEY_CLASSES_
> that it said were "severe" and another one from
> centrport.com which it listed as "Moderate" I tried to
> delete them but it prompted me to buy the software. Are
> any of these things related. Do I have people spying on
> me or what?

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each need to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.

If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

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