The cures posted in the spyware thread are made at a time when internet explorer was king. unfortunatly, Internet Explorer also had giant holes that let everybody install anything (including spyware) on your computer without your knowledge or your consent simply by viewing a banner ad at many of your favorite websites.

Spyware is now mainstream and you will find them installing on your computer from almost anywhere.

Many of the members at techzonez began using a browser called firefox. this put an end to drive by downloads and thus put an end to coolwebsearch and search assistant.

this type of spyware installs a huge amount of tentacles in the registry(backdoor entries) and spams your desktop, bookmarks, homepage, sends all your contacts in your address book spam, capture your keystrokes and passwords as well as capture your desktop and surfing habits so they can replace the ads on every website you visit with ones they made based on your websurfing. xxx ads in your emails if you visit porn sites or digital cameras specials if you visit kodac, depending on what your into and they will sell it to you.

it is extremely difficult to remove this threat as they make hundreds of different varients.

please visit Computercops for details on how to remove this threat.

or you can surf with firefox
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remember when reading the spyware thread that each program detects different things so you must follow and install each program on the list.

good luck

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