Unwanted Icons on my desktop! please help.

[Bernard]

Hi ;

Once in a while, when i logon to internet then i see some
starnge icons created on my desktop like: digcam or spyware
....few times i deteted them but very soon they are there
again, even sometimes they delete some of my other icons as
well!! i deleted the cookies, but did not work. how can i
get rid of them?

Thanks for any help,
Bernard.

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Download and install Ad Aware from www.lavasoftusa.com. It's free for
personal use.

It should get rid of that spyware you seem to have accumulated.

Another good idea is a full antivirus scan with updated signatures - if you
don't have any antivirus, you can download AVG from www.grisoft.com. It's
also free for personal use.

Cari
www.coribright.com

"Bernard" > wrote in message
...
> Hi ;
>
> Once in a while, when i logon to internet then i see some
> starnge icons created on my desktop like: digcam or spyware
> ...few times i deteted them but very soon they are there
> again, even sometimes they delete some of my other icons as
> well!! i deleted the cookies, but did not work. how can i
> get rid of them?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Bernard.
>

[Bill Martin]

> Once in a while, when i logon to internet then i see some
> starnge icons created on my desktop like: digcam or spyware
> ...few times i deteted them but very soon they are there
> again, even sometimes they delete some of my other icons as
> well!! i deleted the cookies, but did not work. how can i
> get rid of them?

You might want to run the Ad-Aware. It's a free program available at:

http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml

It will scan your system looking for various kinds of spyware and hidden
advertising stuff. At best it may solve your problem entirely. At worst it
will still clean up things for you.

I'd also question what security settings you have set up for IE. Do you have
it set to at least medium? (Tools > InternetOptions > Security) If not, it's
easy for web pages to put executable stuff into your machine which you
probably don't want there.

Good luck...

Bill

[Dr Robin Bignall]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:39:40 -0400, Bill Martin >
wrote:

>> Once in a while, when i logon to internet then i see some
>> starnge icons created on my desktop like: digcam or spyware
>> ...few times i deteted them but very soon they are there
>> again, even sometimes they delete some of my other icons as
>> well!! i deleted the cookies, but did not work. how can i
>> get rid of them?
>
>You might want to run the Ad-Aware. It's a free program available at:
>
>http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml
>
>It will scan your system looking for various kinds of spyware and hidden
>advertising stuff. At best it may solve your problem entirely. At worst it
>will still clean up things for you.
>
He could also try SpyBot, also free, which I prefer to Ad-Aware. It also
allows one to 'inoculate' against quite a few (over 200 last time I looked)
common spyware items.


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Robin Bignall

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England

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