First of all, my computer seems to be reading from my A:drive every 2-5 minutes when there isn't a disc in. This has been happening for a while now but it only lasts about 2 seconds and though it freezes my computer for those 2 seconds, I didn't think much of it at this point. Recently, a window has been appearing saying something like WtoolsA has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. When I close the window, my computer reads from the A:drive and the window reappears (and so on...). I read that I needed to uninstall the program Wintools, so I did. However, there is one program that is called "Wintools easy installer" that I cannot uninstall. It says to me "Remove not possible. Remove need active internet connection. Connect and try it again." This, even though I have an internet connection at all times. When I turned on my computer this morning, the program that I had uninstalled last night (Wintools internet explorer v2) (I believe that's the name of it), had reappeared. I did a search on my computer for Wintools files and found three. C:Windows/System/Wintools C:ProgramFiles/CommonFiles/Wintools/Wintools.exe C:ProgramFiles/CommonFiles/Wintools (File folder) How can I get rid of this??? Thank you for your help. Caroline

Try this web page - it may help: http://www.pchell.com/support/wintools.shtml Regards Johnr

Read the disclaimer @ the bottom of this page, coincidentally I just found out a wintools.exe file within my C:\Program Files\Common Files\Wintools after installing AČ and Ewido, deleted it anyway, but still curious how I got it to begin with. One way or the other it has managed to slip past all my scumware tools and I have @ all the propular ones innstalled and updated AFAIK. ____________________________ The greatest risk is not taking one

Wintools is a spyware program that is currently not detected by Spybot, Ad-Aware, or a slew of other removal programs. Hijackthis will see it but it simply reloads itself. Typically the prog drops 2 main files "WTOOLSA.EXE" and "WTOOLSS.EXE". There is also another file that sometimes loads in startup called sdkqh.dll. I think this only shows up in XP/2000 machines though. Remove the entire WINTOOLS folder "c:\program files\common files\Wintools Search the registry for "WTOOLSA.EXE" and "WTOOLSS.EXE" --Remove all entries-- After all this do a scandisk, defrag, ect. Someone needs to add this junk to they're detections!!!! It is a real problem lately! It is a browser hijacker with a BHO and Ad-server built in. A "Blended Threat" that is not easily removed. Need more info, email me! ::bi0phreak::