I'm having a very lazy Saturday indeed.
Can't be bothered to do anything.
I've spent the morning trying to remove the annoying lop toolbar from the laptop... to not much avail. Abby is home and talking to her 100 friends online. Her list is endless!
I found this very cool site with doll pictures on it which I love. (Such a girlie at heart)
And I'm extremely chilled to say the least. May open a bottle of wine. Have a bath with some candles round it and Watch a movie...Want to join me? You're very welcome.
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have you got spybot and/or adaware? If not, get them and run them both, they should sort out most nasties on your system. Both free, keep them up to date and run them regularly
spybot - http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html
adaware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
haven't you got xp on laptop, btw? give kiddies limited accounts so they can't install stuff hah!
Spybot and adaware are the two I use for cleaning. I also use BHODemon to look for and stop IE 'helpers'.
The problem is some spyware is getting extra nasty - they install a twin, so that as soon as one is disabled, the twin reinstalls it's opposite. In this case you may need to run the spyware programs in safe mode. It will take a lot longer, but even more likely to get rid of it.
Of course, the toolbar may not be considered spyware (or not yet classified as one by spybot or adaware). In which case you may need to figure out which program it is manually.
Another way to get rid of it is to shut down odd looking things in task mamanger. When it goes away you know you shut down the right thing. If you shut down the wrong thing, you may wind up rebooting :) . When you do find out what it's name is, then you can check in the startup for the program and disable. Unluckily it probably is not in the programs->startup folder, so you may need to run msconfig to disable unwated apps from loading each time you boot.
LOL at the doll!!!! :)
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