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StanT · 09-15-2005, 05:44 AM

Apparently, my daughter clicked on something she shouldn't have and now we have "Winfixer" adware installed on my PC. It's a nasty little piece of shit the brings up popups and locks the browser(s) from time to time. I've run AdAware, Spybot, and Zone Alarms security suite against it. I've dropped the machine into safe mode and tried it again. No success, google brings up a variety of answers, the most common of which is a registry edit of nearly 100 lines. I'm not opposed to editing my registry, but 100 lines seems a bit much. Does anyone have any experience with this? Suggestions?

09-15-2005, 05:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
StanT © Location: Colorado	Winfixer (also known as "my daughter is a moron") Apparently, my daughter clicked on something she shouldn't have and now we have "Winfixer" adware installed on my PC. It's a nasty little piece of shit the brings up popups and locks the browser(s) from time to time. I've run AdAware, Spybot, and Zone Alarms security suite against it. I've dropped the machine into safe mode and tried it again. No success, google brings up a variety of answers, the most common of which is a registry edit of nearly 100 lines. I'm not opposed to editing my registry, but 100 lines seems a bit much. Does anyone have any experience with this? Suggestions?