Hey guys! I recently got attacked by massive spyware. I am mad :( It installed Lycos search and many retared online games, changed my homepage to some dirty site and also installed usless and possibly harmful programs. It all occured when i was vising a cd covers site and then a windows popup happend to show up saying i need to instert the Win xp disk or my PC wont start. I have a popup blocker so i thought it was legit. Nextr thing i know...popup and spyware everywhere. I ran spybot S&D i cleand it out, uninstalled the spyware files and ran cwshredder. I deleted one file in program files called "WebRebates" and then i see it in the Add/Remove section so i tryed to remove it but it gives me an error: "error: could not execute Main: the system cannot find the file specified" so i was wondering how to get rid of it from Add/Remove section. Also is there anyway to see if im compleatly clean of all this spyware, cause i would hate to have it running in the back somewhere. Thank you guys soooo much!

try running adware and see what it finds

knight5 thanks for that, i just did found 9 more files. Still i need to remove that annoying webRebates from Add/Remove

I know the reason it cant be removed from the Add/Remove section is because i deleted it manually, but is there any other way of getting rid of it?

spywareblaster, cwshredder,adaware, swattit, bazooka, and spybot. Update and run them and keep them updated.

ok thanks man. i got the webrebates removed from the add/remove section by regedit. Ok guys thanks heaps!

Ivo, Here are the instructions from Microsoft for manually removing software from the add/remove list: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314481 Be sure to backup your registry first if you are going to do this. I believe that Tweak UI has the capability to do this as well. You might want to check it out before manually editing the registry: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp Hope this helps, Jim