Hi roomys, I recently d/lded a site called PURITY SCAN (sear1) presumably a scan aid for PORN SPAM------but alas----it is now clear to me this is not true--it happens to be an advertising bot sending me pop-ups every 2 mins which has become so annoying. In my endeavours to eradicate this pesky thing (to no avail yet) I have d/lded 2 spyware removers which have removed everything else except this.I run AD-AWARE (latest) which does not detect it.Others I have used r SPYBOT (no luck)SPYHUNTER (which registers it's presence) but now it says I cant remove unless I buy the FULL VERSION. I have also got GOOGLE BLOCKER which it overides.-----I run WINDOWS ME 20gb 128 ram AMD DURON I am the type that likes to learn by having a go at fixing things 1st but after a wasted SUNDAY I admit this has beaten me.While writing this I have had 20 pop ups ------ANY IDEAS GREATLY APPRECIATED -----TY BARBARA

Did you fully update Spybot S&D before running its' check for problems? SSD should pick up this Purity Scan thing, I think. I will try to find info. Spyhunter is a scam...You better be careful about downloading a bunch of "spyware killers" some of them are loaded with spyware themselves. CWShredder might kill this malware: http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html

You might also try this: http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ Get the free version and create an account so they can email you the activation code which you will need late in the installation/update process.

Dealing with/preventing the arrival of assorted pests (incl. high-jackers, trojans etc.) can be found via these posts: credits to SVG/The Count/Mesich/KTTD/DAVEINCAPS etc. who are well up on these issues. http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/94623.html http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/155566.html http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/95585.html http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/97226.html There is some inevtiable duplication across these references; but worth to browse them all regardless.

Hi KHIRA, Leroi, Trvlr, hello everyone Didn't find much on the net about the PuritanScan garbage so I installed it. I launched Internet Explorer and sure enough about every two minutes an annoying popup. Here is what I found after installing it. It creates two registry keys. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ContentService C:\Windows\System32\winservn.exe HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PurityScan It creates this folder. C:\Program Files\PurityScan It also installs this executable file. C:\Windows\System32\winservn.exe To remove it I delete the registry entries and restarted the computer. I then deleted the folder and file above. I reinstalled it and ran an Updated Spybot as suggested by Leroi and it also detected it and removed the said items. Best Regards, Mesich

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Mesich: That's service "above and beyond the call of duty"... Hats off to U for another determined effort to resolve/defeat another of these pests!!! (Hope/trust this test/experiment was on a non-critical PC...?)