Adaware keeps coming up with spyware called "data miner"

[Macro2]

I delete it and it keeps getting back on my computer. Anyone know where it's coming from?

 

[isaacmacdonald]

sounds similar to my "data miner"-

 

[Macro2]

Also says tracking cookie...fwiw

 

[GimpTG]

Spy ware sucks to try to get rid of, I use Spybot it does a good job of finding and removing spyware and it is absolutely free. Check it out

 

[waitman]

Originally posted by: Macro2
I delete it and it keeps getting back on my computer. Anyone know where it's coming from?

My Daughter has a game, Diva Stars, everytime she puts in the disk it puts alexa.web in my pc. took me a while to figure out where it came from. Alexa should have been a clue as one of the characters is named Alexa. Go figure, I payed for the software and the spyware that came with it!

 

[Macro2]

Spybot will remove it...
Adaware doesn't completely remove alexa.

 

[Bucksnort]

The cookies that you pick up with adaware is normal. Each time you visit a web site again that has popup adds on it will add the cookie again and adaware will pick it up again when aaw is run. Delete the data miner cookie file with a spyware remover and go back to the website and you will have the data miner cookie again the next time u scan. Adaware does get rid of alexa also fyi.