Best way to remove Spyware and why can they do this to us?

[damocles]

Ages ago i played Drugwars for a while, then deleted it.

Somehow the game installed Cydor Spyware on my PC. It stayed after the game was deleted which i reckon should somehow be illegal.

I have gone through a large chunk of my registry deleting cydor references, but it still trys to get passed Zonealarm and access the internet. Because i wont let it, it get revving up my hard drive every few seconds

I'm pretty unhappy with this, what is the best thing to do about it?

cheers

 

[RossMAN]

You need Ad Aware.

 

[Delusion2001]

best way? block it with a firewall...can't connect to the server

may i recommend zonealarms.com

 

[kduncan5]

RossMAN said it all. Just uninstalled v4.6 & installed v5.5 earlier today. -kd5-


(...btw, they do it because they CAN do it:|)

 

[damocles]

Thanks, Imesh also load the damned spyware. Adware will do the trick

It seems odd that private companies can monitor us this way, it's so invasive

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

Yeah I don't like people knowing about my porn surfing habits either

 

[Crank]

Ummmm....how do we know if AdAware installs spyware?!?!?!?

;-)

 

[IcemanJer]

Format your computer and reinstall Windows.

 

[RossMAN]

Thanks I download and installed Adware version 5.0 release 5.5 and it found a total of 51 spyware things on my PC three were from Comet Cursor which I already uninstalled and the other 48 were all cookies. I thought Napster, Morpheus, etc. all have Spyware stuff in them?

 

[monto]

<< Format your computer and reinstall Windows.

>>

that reminds me, time for a format myself

 

[kami]

AdAware found spy sh*t in my damn netscape directory! :|:|:|:|:| Another reason not to use that POS. Only reason it's on here is for testing web sites.