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Norton AV found adware.purity scan
Name: mrjeffb Date: June 16, 2006 at 05:05:11 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition V CPU/Ram: 2.93 GHz 405 MB Product: HP Pavillion a1220n
Comment:
I have been receiving several popups lately. Ran Spybot and Ad-Aware SE Personal neither found this problem. Norton Antivirus 2005 was run and found "Services.dll at risk adware.purity scan". Since services.dll is a shared file I didn't just want to delete or try and replace without checking first. If someone could please advise how to procede I would appreicate it.
Name: murr Date: June 16, 2006 at 07:22:49 Pacific
Reply:
Just another example of how useless 'Adaware'& 'Spybot' have become.
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Response Number 3
Name: robert451 Date: June 16, 2006 at 14:02:48 Pacific
Reply:
murr, I agree both those are kinda lame now, I use Spybot as a preventative measure.I like the immunize feature.Doesnt seem to remove much spyware like some of the newer programs do, ie Ewido and A2 squared.
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