[Trying to ignore the petty and irrelevant grammar squabble]
Can’t you uninstall the program? If you go into the Control Panel, and click on Add & Remove Programs, is the program listed? If so, you can remove the program there. If not, you might have to look thru the directories to find the offending program, and manually delete the files.
I remember uninstalling Xupiter’s dad, Gator. When I did that, it basically broke explorer.exe. Win98 no worky good with broken explorer.exe. I had to reinstall… except that was when Win2000 came out.
So I just loaded Windows 2000… Gator was the reason I moved off of the Win16/24 platform and onto fully 32-bit operating systems.
I fantasize about EVERY person who gets annoyed by software like this filing a small claims lawsuit.
The idea of the software maker winding up with hundreds of collections agencies going after them, or showing up in court hundreds of times makes me EXTREMELY happy.
I am pretty sure that the whole uninstall stuff takes active participation of the software developer. They must make an uninstall script for you to unistall with. This is spyware we are talking about here I think it unlikely that they have made it easy for you to get rid of their junk.
Ok, thanks to the goddamn petty grammar bickering, no one seems to have noticed my post:
Download and run either Adaware or Spybot. regardless of any settings, one or both of these will remove nearly any scumware you might get hit with.
You can say that again.
Oh, you just did.
culov: With just a very cursory glance, I’ve counted numerous grammatical, stylistic, spelling, and punctuation errors in your posts in this thread alone. Why don’t you practice what you preach?
Citizens, please take your gramwar[sup]TM[/sup] to the Pit.
-xash
General Questions Grammar Oderator
Don’t forget there are alternatives to Internet Explorer, which for the most part do not suffer from the same degree of security holes.
Oderator?
(I’m a teacher - I have to proofread!)
Yes, he terminates odors and leaves GQ smelling minty fresh.
QED, he said he’s an "oder"ator, not an "odor"ator, and as we all know an oder is a small furry aquatic mammal, commonly split into river oders and sea oders.
I’m not sure what’s involved in being an Oderator, though. I just hope the poor oders survive it.
OK. Heres the deal with that piece of poo. I have now unchecked the “enable install on demand” option on IE. I have never had a prob like this before, and Ive been surfing for a LONG time. (Heck Im the one everyone I know calls when THEY get hit with some bug/adware crap). So I was VERY annoyed. I caught the intrusion pretty fast (due to the addition to the toolbar, which I knew was cause for alarm), but was just unable to figure out what to do about it. Like i said, I had to run a search on another computer just to find out what it was etc.
Oh, and for those that rely on spybot and adaware, I tried them both as well as www.doxdesk.com (which is the best parasite/scum ware detector I have seen), none of them ‘saw’ it.
Apparently this is common, although one of the posts I read said that spybot had fixed this and new versions will now recognize surferbar.
As for where to get the bugger (if you want to test it out) try going to their web site www.surferbar.com
Not sure if they’ll be so brazen as to try to instal it from there though. I honestly dont know where I got it from. I was surfing, and not even for uh… “adult entertainment” as it were, so no idea what site hit me.
Thats why I asked the question. This CAN’T be legal. Just doesnt sound right. A virus installs itself without permission, changes your settings and controls your actions. How is this any different? Irrispective of wether or not you have options enabled on your browser or not. I mean, whats to stop someone form installing a virus in the same way, then claim you “gave permission since you had the option enabled.”
Like I said, there was no notice of installation and no uninstall option anywhere. (I had to manually find the files involved and delete them).