I was working in Safe Mode on a heavily infested PC running Windows 98. After several passes, Adaware and Spybot reported no more threat objects. My next step was to clean out the startup group of bogus entries pointing to programs that had been eliminated. I noticed several items that appeared to be spyware/adware (judging by their names) and they had not been removed. They were listed in the Add/Remove Programs applet.
When I clicked Uninstall, an uninstall program popped up, asking me to type in the letters being displayed in a graphic - think Turing test. The problem was that because of the color depth in Safe Mode, the image was entirely illegible. This compelled me to boot into regular Windows in order to pass the Turing test and uninstall this junk.
Was there any better way to remove this stubborn program? I was thinking I could have also deleted/renamed the executable to prevent launching, but I was concerned with residual traces it may have left behind. Any ideas?
When I clicked Uninstall, an uninstall program popped up, asking me to type in the letters being displayed in a graphic - think Turing test. The problem was that because of the color depth in Safe Mode, the image was entirely illegible. This compelled me to boot into regular Windows in order to pass the Turing test and uninstall this junk.
Was there any better way to remove this stubborn program? I was thinking I could have also deleted/renamed the executable to prevent launching, but I was concerned with residual traces it may have left behind. Any ideas?
