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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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SpyWare/Adware
Does anyone have a tool to remove something called Pesttrap?
Apparently I got ot on the desktop somehow last night and it's driving me bonkers! HELP!!!!!!!! 
  
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| March 7, 2007, 07:33 |
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Hi hun, do you have a system restore on your computer, it's in help and support. If you put the settings back a couple of days, it might remove the problem. I have had simular happen to me and that's all it took to resolve the problem. It's worth ago, 
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| March 7, 2007, 09:19 |
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
That may work, It all depends what kind of anivirous you are running! If you are running norton or mccafee you can just quarintine it! If you are not running them I sugest you do!
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| March 7, 2007, 09:29 |
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
You may also try running Spybot Search and Destroy. If you dont already have it, I can email you the link to install. Its a free download and you'd be amazed at how much it removes. It has frequent updates for new problems that arise as well. I run it on mine twice a week.
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| March 7, 2007, 10:43 |
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Check out majorgeeks site, they usually have tools for just about anything, and I found them very safe for downloading programs. (Although I always double check with a virus scan when I download anything from anywhere)
PChell is a good place to get instrustions and tools for removing stuff too.
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| March 7, 2007, 10:44 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
I have Spybot and I also have AVG, both Virus and Spywares apps,have run them all, I tried running it back, doing a restore...but for some reason my system won't restore....I don't know why...I am no computer geek when it comes to this stuff, I even looked it up on the web abd tried to follow their instructions for manual removal, but in task manager, where it says to look to stop it before removing, the .exe isn't under the name pest trap like it says...so I am stumped...
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| March 7, 2007, 12:05 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Maybe ask Kinkykev, he's usually pretty savy about computers.
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| March 7, 2007, 13:24 |
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Have you tried the "immunization" feature on Spy Bot? Also The Update feature? If that doesnt work, then Im lost.
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| March 7, 2007, 13:24 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Well, I'm going to download a trial of norton and see if that will help.
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| March 7, 2007, 14:35 |
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I hope that works for you. I just bought the Norton 360. It was only $59 and it cleared up alot of issues I had on mine
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| March 7, 2007, 15:00 |
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nips
39 / female
Bluerock, Ohio, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
QUOTE (pepper @ March 7, 2007, 07:33)
Ok hunny heres what you can do.go to control pannel,then to add and remove programs,when it opens,when it opens find it on the list,highlight and push the romove button then restart.
Love ya
nips
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| March 7, 2007, 15:06 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Thanks, Nips, that was the first thing I tried....it wasn't listed in there and the app associated with it wouldn't allow me to delete it...kept telling me I had to restart the comp to do it...I didn't think that sounded right, so I didn't.
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| March 7, 2007, 15:22 |
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Re: Re: SpyWare/Adware
QUOTE (pepper @ March 7, 2007, 15:22)
I have norton and i find it excellent, so i hope the trial one works for you
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| March 7, 2007, 16:36 |
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yepper12
74 / male
Jeffersonville, Pennsylvania, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Go to www.download.com do a search for ad-aware (personal) down load it and once installed let if update. then run it ,do the full scan. Also you should do a search for spybot (one word) and download that install it and run it.
If that does not fix the problem you can do a full free virus scan at www.trend.com
Hope this helps.
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| March 7, 2007, 17:17 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
got both of them sweetie, thank you! Norton seems to have done the trick, haven't seen one in a couple of hours now, since I ran it and then rebooted...hope that's the last of the little fracker!!
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| March 8, 2007, 00:24 |
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Can't restore? Are you running windows ME? I know there was a date put into me that caused the restore function to stop working. There is a patch for it on miicrosoft's download page.
Hope you get rid of the problem.
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| March 8, 2007, 00:55 |
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pepper
56 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
No, it's a newer computer (july of last year, I think( so it's definately running XP.
It seems to be ok now, since I put Norton on, guess I'll be shelling out the $$ when it;s time for the trial to end, lol!
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and advice!
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| March 8, 2007, 05:44 |
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Glad you're back to normal!
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| March 8, 2007, 07:13 |
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Sometimes...when this kind of thing happens to me...I take the easy route of just using system restore(I use XP os) and choose the checkpoint just prior to the program installation.
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| March 8, 2007, 08:14 |
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KINKYINTHEFALLS
57 / male
wild and wonderful, West Virginia, US
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Re: SpyWare/Adware
Just a little FYI Pepper if you decide to get rid of norton's you'll need to get the removal program to do it. 
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| March 8, 2007, 10:40 |
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Re: Re: SpyWare/Adware
QUOTE (pepper @ March 8, 2007, 00:24)
good work peppper!! i use Spybot quite a bit in additon to Norton...those two take care of me....
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| March 8, 2007, 15:06 |
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Re: Re: SpyWare/Adware
QUOTE (KINKYINTHEFALLS @ March 8, 2007, 10:40)Just a little FYI Pepper if you decide to get rid of norton's you'll need to get the removal program to do it.
Oh yeah...I've been there! I had to re-install my Norton's once, and found it's a booger to first remove it...
For other stinker uninstalls, or other computer error messages or problems, I've found that just going to Google, then groups, then the computer catagory, then type in the entire or partial error message, or a fairly detailed phrase like "how do I uninstall whateverprogram?" gets me allot of usefull and good search results.
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| March 11, 2007, 11:14 |
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