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Warez P2P - What???

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Name: agvkrioni
Date: May 20, 2007 at 13:32:47 Pacific
Subject: Warez P2P - What???
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 1028Ram, 1.1Mghz
Model/Manufacturer: I built 4-5years ago
Comment:

I was cleaning out my mother's PC today because she had complained it was running quite slowly. I updated spybot and the usual anti-spyware programs which were *grossly* out of date.

She had 7 instances of "WarezP2P" on her computer. The thing that baffles me is my mother spends her days playing bejewled and looking for things on ebay and reading about home decorating tips.

No one else uses her computer. Where in the world could it have come from? An e-mail? A pop-up ad?



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Response Number 1
Name: agvkrioni
Date: May 20, 2007 at 14:32:17 Pacific
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And now AdAware finds 95 critical objects. Also it found SahAgent. What has this woman been doing... eesh.


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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: May 20, 2007 at 16:24:27 Pacific
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are you SURE there are no grandkids, relatives etc that have been on her PC at any time at all?

Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks


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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 22, 2007 at 09:56:28 Pacific
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Is her Account an Admin account?

Life is more painless for those who are brainless.


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