Testing reply (last time I tried it told me I needed to login first, but then it totally lost everything I had typed).

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You have Look2Me installed, courtesy of NicTech. Many people are having similiar problems, including me. All the removal instructions I have seen are a little difficult, except for getting the removal program from NicTech. See this URL: http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/look2me/index.phtml He has both manual removal instructions (which may be incomplete, see below) and instructions for getting NicTech's removal program. Note: He claims you have to supply an email address to get the serial number. I followed his instructions today and a serial number was supplied me on a web page. I never had to supply an email address. I have downloaded the removal program but have not used it yet (I'm at work, the Look2Me adware is on my home computer). Here is a forum where Look2Me/NicTech is being discussed. There are manual removal instructions in the thread: http://www.computercops.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=141536 You can go to Adaware's support forums: http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/ then press the search button (upper right) and search for Look2me. You'll see that there are multiple discussions going on. The one titled "Look2Me ######" has removal instructions in it, posted by Option^Explicit at Apr 18 2004, 07:12 AM. Good luck.

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I had the same problem and it was being caused by VX2.BetterInternet. I've managed to remove the dll's and registry entries and everything seems ok so far. I followed the solution by Zupe at: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9979574~mode=flat ----The post was as follows:---- This will take a few steps: First, please download and unzip the latest version of the Killbox from here: »http://download.broadbandmedic.com/VbStuff/KillBox.zip After that: said by Option^Explicit - »http://forums.broadbandmedic.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=1;t=6 : ---------------------- 1.) Go to Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Local Security Policy & Under Local Profiles>>User Rights Assignment. On the right side look for Debug Programs, Right-click on it and select Properties. 2.) Click Add User or Group and when the next Window opens, click the Object Types button, and now put a Check in the box for Groups. click OK. 3.) That Window will close. On the one you are left with, click Advanced and from the next Window Find Now *Look under Name(RDN) for Administrators and select it & Click OK. 4.) Administrators should show up in the box beside "Check Names" just Click OK, then that Window will close..On the next Window under the only Tab "Local Security Setting" should have Administrators listed in it, if it does Click Apply then OK again. With a reboot that fixes that. *Make sure you reboot! After rebooting... Close all open Windows, start the KillBox and under the Fix L2M menu choose Kill VX2.BetterInternet. Your computer will Shut down. On rebooting, the 2 files will be deleted. Because we accessed these .dll files, they will have corrupted the User Rights Assignment again, but no big deal. Repeat the same process you did earlier of adding the Administrators Group to Debug Programs again, and since the offending files are gone, this time those settings will stay put. Things to do with Killbox after removing these files: 1.)Click Find>>Find VX2.BetterInternet *Nothing Should show up in the next window, if it does you are infected still. But if Clean then... 2.)Click Find->User Agent String, highlight the CLSID key, and under the Action menu choose Delete User Agent String 3.)Click Fix L2M and choose Import L2M.reg to remove various registry keys set by the software. ---------------------- After all that, please update Ad-Aware and run a full scan, removing any leftovers it finds.

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I have read several boards with postings with regard to files from NicTech.. The ones on my machine were in the system32 directory aiptif.cpy.dll and aitpif.dll.. I have Windows XP Home and tried ever move to get rid of them.. Finally used a straight foward approach.. I removed the drive from the machine and placed it in another XP machine as a second drive.. Used explorer to locate files and deleted them.. Replaced the drive used Ad-aware to remove any remaining files.. Machine now works fine..

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