I have a popup program that seems to have installed itself on my computer. Everytime my internet is idle, it displays search results from some searchmiracle.com. I don't know how it got onto my PC and I don't know how to remove it. Spybot and Google popup blocker don't seem to work. I also have some programs like winad.exe which got installed and I can't remove because they are readme's. Help! :cry:
iamboredguy 0 Newbie Poster
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Try scanning your computer with Ad-Aware. It should find and remove whatever that search crap is. You can download Ad-Aware here:
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button - update it before you do the scan.
If that doesn't help, download and run HijackThis! and post the results so that a more experienced forum member can analyse it for you ;) You can get HijackThis! here:
http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dlhijackthis.html
Good luck.
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
Moved to security section.
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