# spyware question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spyware-question/288076>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 2, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spyware-question/288076 "2005-02-02T23:51:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spyware-question/288076/21 "2005-02-09T03:07:58Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> I know that the line I have bolded is related to this problem.

Yep, that’s the culprit. Does it still come back if you remove it and manually delete all contents of **C:\WINNT\TEMP** in Safe Mode?

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spyware-question/288076/22 "2005-02-09T06:49:36Z")

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Hmm, I don’t normally go in and delete things. My Guru is coming over Friday, we’ll run Adaware once, and then also go delete that file in safe mode.

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