M$ has a BETA anti-spyware program I found to be quite effecient. You might wanna try it and see if that helps. However I have used Spybot for yera snow and have never had any problems with it not removing anything I have seemed to catch - Wish you luck Bob Seattle(Des Moines), WA ~OoO~ <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: You typically won't be able to get rid of it. That's what I like to call an "I won't admit it" bug... cause Spybot = won't admit it=92s a bug. :o) Here's what they do say, however: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/36.html ---Troth -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of cristy Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:17 AM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=3DPCTechTalk=3D- spyware/spybot s and d I use win xp os when using spybot search and destroy, I can "never" get rid of this darn = "exploit" thing that comes up and now I seem to be having "COSMI" come = up=20 over and over. I had tried before uninstalling an installing again = spybot s and d but no luck ridding of them. I dont get it when I put the program = on=20 uncles computer he does not get that. Any clue on what to do? christy Stop e-mail Harvesting: Protect Your Friends and Family Please: Use BCC when sending to multiple addresses. Please: Delete E-mail addresses when Forwarding. Thank you and have a GREAT DAY. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk