-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Strange things my computer is doing.

"The say they don't do tracking no more."  Thats funny!
  

Joyce McClure <jmcclure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Thanks for your reply Robert. I ran Spy Bot again this morning and it came 
up with one more. This one was a cookie so I had no problem fixing that 
one. It was Avenue A Inc. and I have no idea where it came from but I had 
to laugh at the description and additional information which said, "The say 
they don't do tracking no more."
Joyce
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From: "Robert Andrew Dulaney Jr." 
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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 3:56 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Strange things my computer is doing.


> Not I miss Joyce, I havent had a hit in spybot for quite some time
> Joyce McClure wrote: I guess I will just 
> describe one at a time so as not to confuse the issues and perhaps someone 
> will know what is going on here. I ran Adaware a couple of days ago and it 
> showed some negligible items which I quarantined. I always quarantine 
> anything found and then next run I delete if everything is going well. 
> Then I ran SpyBot Search and Destroy and came up with about 6 high risk 
> all in red. Scared me half to death :-). Anyway I was not so sure as to 
> how to deal with those and, before doing anything, I started looking in 
> the help section. By the time I was finished searching and had decided to 
> delete them, they were all greyed out and there were no options available. 
> I ran the scan again and came up with "Congratulations! No risks found" . 
> So I peeked into the restore file and found them all in there. I guess 
> they got fixed or deleted or whatever happens. I wish I had taken a screen 
> shot of the findings but what I remember
> was Ad "something" and the rest were from M
> icrosoft update. As far as I can tell everything is working o.k. except 
> for some strange actions which I will describe in another post. I have 
> done a full system virus scan with Norton and nothing is showing there. I 
> also ran Win Doctor and the other Dr. and did a diskcheck. Has anyone else 
> had some stuff found by SpyBot similar to this?
> Joyce
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